Isaac Kawika Wang

Email: wang3679@purdue.edu

Education:
Ph.D. Rhetoric and Composition
Purdue University 610 Purdue Mall, West Lafayette, IN 47907 Expected Spring 2023

M.A. Rhetoric and Composition

University of Hawaii at Mnoa 2500 Campus Road Honolulu, HI 96822 Fall 2015 Spring 2017

B.A. Literary Studies

University of Hawaii at Mnoa 2500 Campus Road Honolulu, HI 96822 Fall 2011 Summer 2014

A.A. Liberal Arts

West Hawaii Community College 81-964 Halekii St. Kealakekua, HI 96750 Fall 2009 Spring 2011

Teaching and Work Experience:

Graduate Teaching Assistant at Purdue University Fall 2017

Writing Center Coordinator UHM Writing Center Spring 2015

Assists in day-to-day running of writing center, development of

best practices for tutor training, mediation of conflict, scheduling
of tutors, analysis of writing center usage data.
Workshop Coordinator UHM Writing Center Spring 2015

Development and scheduling of workshops on grammar, citation

styles, and writing improvement for classes across the disciplines
Student Assistant English Tutor, University of Hawaii at Mnoa Spring 2013 Spring 2014

Involved in facilitating and promoting the growth of diverse

writers through collaboration and peer mentorship
Writing Center training as part of English 405: Teaching Composition Spring 2013

Scholarships/Awards:
$1,508 Achievement Scholarship from the Department of English Fall 2015 Fall 2016

$1,000 Academic Achievement Scholarship from the College of Spring 2013 Spring 2014
Languages, Linguistics and Literature
Deans List, University of Hawaii at Mnoa, College of Languages, Fall 2011 Fall 2013
Linguistics and Literature
Deans List, Hawaii Community College Fall 2009 Spring 2011
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Affiliations/Memberships:
Phi Beta Kappa Initiated Spring 2014

Local Conference Presentations

Introducing the Indigenous to Writing Center Praxis: Kaona and Tutor Oct. 27 2016
Education at the English Department Fall Graduate Colloquium
The Unseeing Eye: Politics of Tourism and [in]Visibility on the Apr. 23 2016
Streets of Waikk at the College of Languages, Linguistics &
Literature Graduate Student Conference
Non-Recognition and Abjection in Representations of Oct. 28 2015
Houselessness in Ironweed at the English Department Fall Graduate
Colloquium
Reading Outside the Limes: Decentering and Dialogue in The Wife of May 8 2014
Baths Tale at the University of Hawai i at Mnoa Spring Symposium

National Conference Presentations

Tutoring Each Other: Tutor Collaboration in the Writing Center presented Mar. 17 2017
at CCCC Convention
Affirming our Liminality & Writing on the Walls presented Mar. 15 2017
at IWCA Collaborative@CCCC
"Feasting on Anae Holo: The Sustaining Potential of Indigenous Aug. 4 2017
Wonder" presented at Thinking With Stories in Times of Conflict: A
Conference in Fairy-Tale Studies