UROP Research Mentor Project Submission Portal: Submission #1328

Mentoring Philosophy As a first-year college composition instructor and woman of color from China with extensive international academic experience across Scotland, Australia, and the United States, I bring a fundamentally multicultural lens to mentoring undergraduate researchers in creative writing pedagogy. My mentoring philosophy centers on the belief that diverse perspectives are not merely beneficial but essential to research and scholarship, particularly in a field as culturally situated as creative writing pedagogy. Understanding the challenges of navigating academic discourse across cultures and languages, I provide patient support for students developing their academic research skills. I celebrate multilingual perspectives and encourage students to draw on their full range of linguistic and cultural resources. Under my mentorship, students might examine how creative writing is taught across different cultural contexts, comparing methods used in American creative writing programs with approaches in other countries. For example, investigating how collaborative writing practices differ between East Asian and Western pedagogical traditions. We can compare MFA programs in Hong Kong, UK to the established US program and find their differences and similarities. I will always offer student hands-on experience that they can hone their research skills from day one. They can start by browsing through different databases, find relevant papers and important datas and write a comprehensive literature review. They can also come up with creative writing prompts that incorporate games and we can try that in the actual classroom setting and collect results. Students are welcome to ask questions and explore academic publication with me.en to qu