Kuo Zhang

Siena College · Education Department

This article examines collective dialogues surrounding the confrontation of microaggressions through a unique combination of autoethnographic poetry and found poetry. Focused on my personal encounters as an Asian woman in academia, a mother of three young children, and an international employee residing in the United States, the autoethnographic po...

As the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged the whole world, every aspect of people's daily life has been turned topsy-turvy. In an effort to stem the spread of the virus, most people in the U.S. are living under relatively restrictive conditions of quarantine. This autoethnographic poetic inquiry presents a series of poems written within quarantine as dialog...

As international students seek degrees in U.S. higher education, their role as students is fore-fronted and recognizable by faculty and peers. What often remains invisible are their social and personal experiences. While there is substantive literature on academic identity and motherhood, very few studies address international graduate student moth...

A poem written during the pandemic.

Two poems

Three poems during the pandemic.

Two published poems.

Artist Statement: As international students seek degrees in U.S. institutions of higher education, their role as students is forefronted and recognizable by faculty and peers. However, what often remains invisible are international students' social and personal experiences during academic study abroad. Although there is a great deal of feminist res...

A poem on motherhood, cross-cultural reflection and the sociopolitical nature of elementary education.

Three poems related to resistance and COVID-19.

A pandemic poem.

Through presenting a series of poetry findings from a larger poetic ethnographic study on the lived experience of 11 international graduate student first-time mothers’ learning of the “language” of motherhood during their journey of pregnancy, birth, and early years of motherhood, this article reflects on the uncontrolled nature of poetry writing i...

Challenging authoritative narratives to understand “exotic” others, anthropologists increasingly turn toward a variety of new, investigative forms to investigate social science questions and under- standings. Educational scholars often refer to innovative and creative methodologies as “arts- based research,” embracing the highly individual- ized, h...

Poem

Cahnmann-Taylor, M., Nuruddin, S. N., Zhang, K., Wang, Y., Deaton, A. B., Meng, X, Brown-Lemley, A., Sun, M. (2019). Critical intersections through poetry in a TESOL & world language graduate education program. Intersections: Critical issues in Education, 3 (2), 138-154.

This autoethnographic poetic inquiry addresses my personal pregnancy story as a second-year PhD student from China who studies Language and Literacy Education in a southeastern American university. This chapter works with a focus on self to evoke emotional resonance with audience and provides invites to explore the larger world.

Book review of T. T. Waltz. (2015) TPRS with Chinese characteristics: Making students fluent and literate through comprehensible input. Squid for Brains Educational Publishing. ISBN 978-0692442906, 176 pp.

Teachers of World English are no longer charged with teaching a fixed set of grammar rules and lexical choices but with teaching creative ways to navigate varieties of English and other world languages according to a wide set of contextual variables. Although there is a great deal of advocacy for teaching creativity and strategy in TESOL classrooms...