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Sorina Ailiesei, Ph.D. 

Assistant Professor

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English Department

Dr. Sorina Ailiesei is an Assistant Professor of English Composition at 51�Թ��� Geauga where she has been teaching Introduction to College Writing, College Writing, and Research Writing since 2018. Previously, she taught ESL to international students for five years at Kent Campus. Her teaching focuses mainly on developmental writing where she uses her experience and education to explore the intersection between the first and second language writing and respond effectively to a wide range of writing abilities.

Dr. Ailiesei completed her Bachelor of Arts at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj, Romania, where she double-majored in English and French Language and Literature. She earned her doctoral degree in Ethnic American Literature at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania.  

Her scholarship on ethnic literature is reflected in a series of peerreviewed publications and numerous conference presentations.

Her teaching has also been recognized at the campus and university levels. She was the recipient of the Geauga Campus Faculty Excellence Award in Spring 2021, was featured Educator of the Month by the Center for Teaching and Learning in Spring 2022, and earned Bronze and Silver Teaching Recognition Award (Center for Teaching and Learning) in Fall 2022. She was also nominated by her students for the Outstanding Composition Instructor Award in 2018 and 2023.

SELECT PUBLICATIONS  

“China Men and the American Dream―Crossing Borders in Quest for New Identities,” Encompassing Passing, edited by Michaela Mudure, Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang, 2020, pp. 15-27, https://doi.org/10.3726/b17424

“Negotiating Boundaries of a Genre and of a Dual Identity in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior,” Culture and Power: Identity and Identification, edited by Ángel Mateos-Aparicio Martín-Albo and Eduardo de Gregorio Godeo, Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, 2017, pp. 19-26, ISBN: 978-84-9044-273-9.

”Silenced and Alienated Selves at Maxine Hong Kingston” – Wounded Bodies, Wounded Minds, edited by Oana Cogeanu and Radu Andriescu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza UP, Iasi, Romania, 2014, pp. 159-179, ISBN: 978-606-714-044-6.

“Gender-Crossing as Cultural and Identity Construct at M.H. Kingston,” Constructing Identities: The Interaction of National, Gender and Racial Borders, edited by Antonio Medina-Rivera and Lee Wilberschied, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ISBN (10): 1-4438-4914-6, 2013, pp. 33-46, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-4914-2.

“Intergenerational Conflict of Ethnic Identities in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club,” European Press Institute, Iasi, Romania, 2013, ISBN 978-973-611-623-1, pp. 161-180.

“Deciphering Patterns of Violence and Wounds of Selfhood at Amy Tan,” in Foreign Languages and Literatures Annals of Al. I. Cuza University, Appendix to volume XIV/2011, Alexandru Ioan Cuza Univ. Press, Iasi, Romania, 2012, ISSN – 1841-916X, pp. 223-236.

“Negotiating Binaries in Shaping Chinese American Identities,” Constructions of Identity VI, Cluj-Napoca, Romania: Napoca Star Press, 2011, ISBN 978-973-647-809-3, pp. 97-103.