About me
Tanita Saenkhum is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Writing, and Linguistics at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she teaches courses in L2 writing, TESOL methods, and SLA and was Director of ESL from 2013 through 2019. Her book, Decisions, Agency, and Advising: Key Issues in the Placement of Multilingual Writers into First-Year Composition Courses, considers the role of students’ own agency in the placement of multilingual writers in U.S. college composition programs. She has published in Journal of Second Language Writing, WPA: Writing Program Administration, and Journal of English for Academic Purposes. Her scholarship has also appeared in several edited collections.