Dr. Michelle Zaleski

Born and raised in Los Angeles, CA, Dr. Michelle Zaleski attended Boston College for undergraduate and received her Master’s and Ph.D. in rhetoric and composition from Penn State. Before attending graduate school, she worked at the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh, where she started a writing center and developed an interest in writing program administration and writing across the curriculum. More recently, she taught English at Marymount University in Arlington, VA, where she developed new ways of supporting basic writers through community writing initiatives. At Benedictine College, she teaches composition and directs the writing center. She has published research on comparative rhetoric, multilingual writing, transliteracy, and the Jesuits. She is currently finishing a book project that explores Jesuit education in early modern India to argue for a translingual approach to rhetoric. She lives in Atchison with her husband, Joe, their baby, Theodore, and dog, Diego.