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Mariah Fairley
- Position: Senior Instructor II
- Department: Department of English Language Instruction
- Email: [email protected]
Mariah J. Fairley has been working in the field of English language teaching for over 20 years, as an educator, teacher educator and administrator. Born in the US, raised mainly in Tanzania, and with over two decades in Egypt, Fairley's transnational experience has highlighted for her the need to promote social justice and asset-based approaches in education. Her teaching interests include bridging gaps between the personal and the academic, exploring alternative pedagogies such as indigenous ways of knowing, and creating humanizing spaces for students to achieve more agency over their learning and growth. She particularly enjoys teaching courses in academic writing, identity exploration, and TESOL.
Fairley's research interests revolve mainly around language teacher education, particularly language teacher identity exploration as pedagogy, and transnationality as a resource for promoting educational justice. Through her work, she also aims to promote alternative methods of inquiry and research conducted in Global South contexts.
BA in Hispanic Studies, 1999, Lewis and Clark College
MA in TEFL, 2010, The American University in Cairo
PhD in Composition and Applied Linguistics, 2022, Indiana University of Pennsylvania