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        Home / Media / Interviews / The Emerging Voices Series / Amber Engelson

        Amber Engelson

        In this interview, Amber Engelson discusses her writing process during her 13 year book project. She reflects on her positionality while working with international writers. She emphasizes the importance of community and finding writing partners to stay motivated. When this interview was conducted on August 22, 2025, she was Professor of English at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.

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        Video Production: Zakery R. Muñoz

        Closed Caption Editing: Camaryn Wheeler

        Additional credits are provided at the end of the video.

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        Faculty Profile: https://mcla.edu/about-mcla/faculty/amber-engelson.php

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        Engelson, Amber. (2004). The Hands of God at Work: Islamic Gender Justice through Translingual Praxis. CCCC/NCTE.

        Engelson, Amber. (2020). “I Have No Mother Tongue”: (Re)Conceptualizing Rhetorical Voice in Indonesia. In Keith Lloyd (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Comparative World Rhetorics: Studies in the History, Application, and Teaching of Rhetoric Beyond Traditional Greco-Roman Contexts. Routledge.

        Engelson, Amber. (2018). “Resources are Power”: Writing Across the Global Information Divide.In Rich Rice & Kirk St.Amant (Eds.), Thinking Globally, Composing Locally: Rethinking Online Writing in the Age of the Global Internet. Utah State University Press.

        Engelson, Amber. (2018). “To Whom Do We Have Students Write?”: Exploring Rhetorical Agency and Translanguaging in an Indonesian Graduate Writing Classroom. Literacy in Composition Studies. https://licsjournal.org/index.php/LiCS/article/view/731/492

        Engelson, Amber. “The Hands of God at Work”: Negotiating Between Western and Religious Sponsorship in Indonesia. College English, 76(4), 292-314.

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