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    Lauren Vogel

    Lauren Vogel

    Department of English
    Associate Professor
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    Kent
    Contact Information
    Email:
    lvogel@kent.edu

    Biography

    Lauren Vogel uses a critical literacy lens to inform her teaching and research. Her current pedagogical interests use adult crossover literature to promote literacy, generate inquiry, foster empathy and add to our global funds of knowledge. She endorses a multilayered, multivoiced writing style which incorporates research, lived experiences, and imagination. She has published and/or presented on topics concerning adult reading literacy and fluency, crossover literature as well as teacher hegemony and the need for practitioners to expand their ways of knowing and teaching beyond the current cannon of thought and practice. Her current research investigates how practitioners can disrupt the hegemonized, status-quo to promote fair and more just teaching practices through the self-study methodology.

    She is the winner of Equity, Inclusion, & Success Award from Kent State University & a nominee Of The Month Award for the National Residence Hall Honorary organization. 

    Lauren A. Vogel, MA TESL

    Lauren received her Master’s of Arts in Teaching English as a Second Language from Kent State University in 2005. In addition to teaching ESL at Kent State University, she also spent a year living and teaching abroad in Istanbul, Turkey. She has extensive experience teaching the lower and advanced ESL Writing and Reading courses. Her favorite class to teach is American Culture and very much enjoys working on curriculum.

    Lauren has had the wonderful opportunity to study abroad in Dresden, Germany, and visit the Czech Republic, South Korea, and Hungary. She hopes to travel to many more places around the globe.

    She enjoys reading nonfiction, baking and working in her garden. The biggest accomplishment in her life has been raising her two beautiful children.

    In addition to her native language, English, Lauren also speaks German and Turkish.

    Lauren received her Bachelor of Arts in German from Kent State University in 2002, and has taught German classes as well.

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