Introducing New Crowbirds for AY24-25!

We’re excited to add five new Crowbirds to the Crow team this year! Read on to learn more about them and the awesome work they’ll be doing as members of our team.

Purdue

Shaohua Fang is the Ross-Lynn Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at Purdue University. He earned his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Pittsburgh in 2023. Prior to this, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in Spring 2024. He was also a CIFLTE Fellow at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Dr. Fang’s research interests lie in psycholinguistics and second language acquisition, employing a range of methodologies, including experimental and computational approaches. He has published on various topics such as L2 acquisition and processing of temporality, predictive processing in L2, scope phenomena, and experimental research methods. Additionally, he has experience teaching Linguistics and Psycholinguistics courses.

At Purdue, he is involved in multiple collaborative projects with researchers from diverse fields, including our friends in the ExLing lab. Learn more about Dr. Fang’s work at https://shaohua-fang.com/.

Arizona

Sara Leila is a second-year Master’s degree in Teaching English as a second language student at the University of Arizona. She received the Fulbright scholarship to teach Arabic at the University of New Hampshire in 2022/2023. She has also taught English as a foreign language for adults for five years. In addition, she worked in leading positions such as being a head of English department for Kindergarten stage and head of training and development at a private language school in Egypt in her early career. Her research interests are second language writing, corpus based pedagogy, and technology enhanced learning.

Samantha Leones is a senior at the University of Arizona pursuing a B.A. in English. She is also minoring in Art History and Information Science and Arts. Her interests include technical writing, editing, and academic librarianship. She currently works at a public library in Tucson, Arizona. In her free time, she likes to bake, crochet, go to concerts, and hang out with her cat, Mango.

NC State

Adrienne Henson is a junior at North Carolina State University majoring in English with a concentration in literature and minoring in Rhetoric, Writing and Professional Communication. She has career interests in copywriting, editing and technical writing. In her free time she enjoys reading, journaling, fiction writing, and going to coffee shops with her friends.

Chloe Hunt is a junior at North Carolina State University majoring in English with a concentration in Professional Writing and Rhetoric. She is drawn to editing and strengthening her writing skills in any area she can get her hands on. Outside of her research interests, she spends her time watching movies, cooking, baking, and listening to music.