Portrait of Dr. Emily Kyung Jin Suh

Dr. Emily Kyung Jin Suh

  • Associate Professor at Curriculum And Instruction, College of Education

Scholarly and Creative Works

2025

  • Zollman, A., Lisa, & Suh, E. K. J. (2025). STEM SMART parenting: A practical guide for nurturing innovating thinkers. Manhattan: Bloomsbury.
  • Holschuh, J. P., & Suh, E. K. J. (2025). Semi-Annual Report, April 2025: Postsecondary Educator Micro-Credentials Stage 2-Best Practices for Teaching and Learning. THECB.

2024

  • Suh, E. K. J., Oelschlegel, C. P., & Edizer, A. M. (2024). Self-Regulated Learning in Developmental Literacy Courses: Examining the Alignment of Learning Outcomes, Students’ Goals, and their Metacognitive Literacy Practices. Journal of College Literacy and Learning, 49, 24–49.
  • Suh, E. K. J., & Unruh, K. (2024). Bringing theory into action: Justice-oriented practices for the classroom. New Directions in Community Colleges.
  • Owens, S., & Suh, E. K. J. (2024). Queering the language of inclusion: Implications from a content analysis of inclusion language in developmental education scholarship. Journal of Leadership in Higher Education, 34(3), 295–316.
  • Suh, E. K. J., Zollman, A., Hoffman, L., & Estevez Posadas, B. (2024). STEM SMART: Unpacking the research about teachers’ beliefs about essential life skills and dispositions. Electronic Journal for Research in Science and Mathematics Education.
  • Suh, E. K. J., Owens, S., Womack, L., & Le, H. (n.d.). Reconceptualizing access: Moving towards an equity praxis. Journal of College Reading and Learning.
  • Suh, E. K. J., & Sweeney, B. (n.d.). Bringing a folding chair to the table: Building towards authentic equity In professional conversations about developmental education. Journal of Basic Writing.
  • Suh, E. K. J., Oelschelegel, C., & Edizer, A. (2024). Self-regulated learning in developmental literacy courses: Examining the alignment of learning outcomes, students’ goals, and their metacognitive literacy practices. Journal of Literacy and Learning.
  • Suh, E. K. J., & Layegh, N. (2024). “Creating this workspace and creating this better community”: An ideological discourse analysis of college administrators’ conceptualizations of equity initiatives. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education.

2023

  • Suh, E. K. J., Estevez Posadas, B. V., Fuller, H. I., Cruz, M., & Andrade, J. (2023). “Open Our Hearts and Minds to Say I Belong Here”: Undergraduate Preservice Teachers’ Transfer Experiences. Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/152102512312222
  • Suh, E. K. J. (2023). Translating persistence: Supporting generation 1 learners in the community college. In B. Griffiths & D. Jensen (Eds.), Two-year college writing studies: Rationale and praxis for just teaching. (pp. 61–78). Utah State University Press.
  • Suh, E. K. J. (2023). The case for collaboration: Aligning ES(O)L and developmental English to increase adult immigrant students’ college access and preparation. Adult Literacy Education, 5(3), 4–21. https://doi.org/https://www.proliteracy.org/resources/the-case-for-collaboration-aligning-esol-and-developmental-literacy-to-increase-adult-immigrant-students-college-access-and-preparation/
  • Owens, S., Suh, E. K. J., Gallagher, S., Baird Giordano, J., & Bowers Johnson, K. (2023). Lessons from activist administrators. National Organization for Student Success.

2022

  • Suh, E. K. J., Wu, N., Garcia, A. J., Oelschlegel, C. P., & Armstrong, S. L. (2022). (Un)voicing a field’s expertise: A two-pronged citation and language analysis. Journal of Praxis in Higher Education, 4(2), 90–121.
  • Suh, E. K., Hemmeke, K., & Wu, N. (2022). Waiting children, forever families: A transitivity analysis of adoption agency blog posts. Adoption and Culture, 10(1), 64–95.
  • Dyer, J. M., Suh, E. K. J., Posey, B., & Owens, S. (2022). Using syllabi to create inclusive spaces: Employing language-based restorative andragogy. In Beyond equity at community colleges: Bringing theory into practice for justice and liberation (pp. 30–47). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003179665-3
  • Suh, E. K. J., Hoffman, L., Wade, & Maher, S. (2022). Offering English language learners the freedom to choose. English Journal, 111(5), 90–92.
  • Suh, E. K. J., Sullivan, P., McGee, B., & Owens, S. (2022). Developmental education and the teacher-scholar-activist: An invitation. Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 49, 326–352.
  • Suh, E. K. J., García, A., Oelschlegel, C., Wu, N., & Armstrong. (2022). (Un)voicing a field’s expertise: A two-pronged citation and language analysis. Journal of Praxis in Higher Education, 4, 90–121.
  • Suh, E. K. J., Griffiths, B. M., Tinocco, L., & Sullivan, P. (2022). Agents of change: Modeling two-year college English teacher’s resilience and saturation during COVID and (hopefully) beyond. Radical Teacher, 124, 51–64. Retrieved from https://radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/radicalteacher/issue/view/33
  • Suh, E. K. J. (2022). Teaching reading for raciolinguistic justice. Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 50, 332–349.
  • Suh, E. K. J., Hoffman, L., Zollman, A., & Estevez Posadas, B. (2022). Measuring students’ STEM smart skill--Studying teachers’ beliefs (pp. 36–43).
  • Giordano, J., Griffiths, B., Hassel, H., Higgins, K., Klausman, J., Snyder, S., … Wegner, M. (2022). TYCA report: White paper on two-year college English faculty workload. Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 49, 292–307.
  • Suh, E. K. J., & Dyer, J. (2022). (Re)Centering antiracist reading in reading scholarship: Reading strategy application for antiracist reading praxis. Journal of College Reading and Learning, 52, 304–320.
  • Suh, E. K. J. (2022). Miles to go before we sleep: A content analysis of representations of equity in the dev ed’r discourse community. Journal of College Reading and Learning, 52(4), 236–263.
  • Suh, E. K. J., Hoffman, L., & Zollman, A. (2022). STEM smart: Five essential life skills students need for their future (pp. 526–530). Martin Stein. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.37626/GA9783959872188.0.099
  • Suh, E. K. J., & Owens, S. (2022). From war to radical love: A beloved community approach to postsecondary transinclusion. In Opening pathways for marginalized individuals in higher education (pp. 33–52). Hershey: IGI Global.
  • Griffiths, B., Tinoco, L., Baird Giordano, J., Hassel, H., Suh, E. K. J., & Sullivan, P. (2022). Community college English faculty pandemic teaching: Adjustments in the time of COVID-19. In Community colleges’ responses to COVID-19: What worked, what did not work and lessons learned (pp. 58–71). New York: Routledge.

2021

  • Suh, E. K. J., Williams, J., & Owens, S. (2021). Raciolinguistic justice in college literacy and learning: A call to reflexive praxis. College Reading and Learning Association. Retrieved from https://www.crla.net/images/whitepaper/CRLA_2021_WhitePaper_Raciolinguistic_Justice_FA.pdf
  • Suh, E. K. J., McGee, B., & Owens, S. (2021). When bootstraps break: Re-examining assumptions about the symbolic capital of immigrant students’ personal persistence narratives. Journal of Basic Writing, 40(1), 68–98. Retrieved from https://wac.colostate.edu/docs/jbw/v40n1/v40n1.pdf
  • Hoffman, L., Suh, E. K. J., & Zollman, A. (2021). What STEM educators need to know about ELL family engagement. Journal of STEM Teacher Education, 56(1), 1–15.
  • Suh, E. K. J., Owens, S., & Hughes, M. (2021). Reflecting on belonging: Stories to normalize college transition and encourage engagement. Journal of Access, Retention, and Inclusion in Higher Education, 4(1), 1–16.
  • Suh, E. K. J., Giordano, J., Griffiths, B., Hassel, H., & Klausman, J. (2021). The profession of teaching English in the two-year college: Findings from the 2019 TYCA workload survey. Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 48(3), 332–349. Retrieved from https://ncte.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/TYCA_Final_Report_December_2020.pdf
  • Suh, E. K. J., & Owens, S. (2021). Seeking teacher-scholar-activists: A thematic analysis of postsecondary literacy professional identity in practice. Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 49(1), 55–76.
  • Hoffman, L., Suh, E. K. J., & Zollman, A. (2021). Broadening conceptions of STEM learning: STEM smart skills and school-based multilingual family engagement. Electronic Journal for Research in Science and Mathematics, 56(1), 1–15.
  • Griffiths, B., Tinoco, L., Baird Giordano, J., Hassel, H., Suh, E. K. J., & Sullivan, P. (2021). Community college English faculty pandemic teaching: Adjustments in the time of COVID-19. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, online. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/10668926.2021.2010623
  • Suh, E. K. J., Owens, S., O’Meara, E., & Hall, L. (2021). Clarifying terms and reestablishing ourselves within justice: A response to critiques of developmental education as anti-equity. National Organization for Student Success.
  • Griffiths, B., Giordano, J., Hassel, H., Higgins, K., Klausman, J., Snyder, S., … Sullivan, P. (2021). The profession of teaching English in the two-year college: Findings from the 2019 TYCA workload survey. Two-Year College English Association. Retrieved from https://ncte.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/TYC_English_Faculty_Workload.pdf
  • Suh, E. K. J. (2021). Little Teaching Tips for the Little Seagull. In The Little Seagull Handbook. New York: Norton & Company.
  • Suh, E. K. J. (2021). Literacy strategy use and identity enactment: Generation 1 learners’ emergent competence in college. Literacy Research and Instruction, 47(1), 21–43.
  • Suh, E. K. J., & Shapiro, S. (2021). Making sense of resistance: How adult immigrant students apply symbolic capital in the college classroom. TESL Canada, 37(3), 27–46.

2020

  • Suh, E. K. J. (2020). Engagement from the periphery: Reconceptualizing adult English language learners’ resistance in developmental literacy. Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 69(1), 1–20. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/2381336920937276
  • Suh, E. K. J. (2020). Adoptees.Speak: A multimodal analysis of Korean adoptees’ adoption narratives. Critical Issues in Language Studies, 18(1), 65–84. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/15427587.2020.1796486
  • Suh, E. K. J., Dyer, J., McGee, B., & Miller Payne, E. (2020). To, through, and beyond higher education: A literature review of multilingual immigrant students’ community college transitions. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 1–17.
  • Suh, E. K. J., Zollman, A., & Hoffman, L. (2020). STEM inclusion research for English language learners (ELLs): Making STEM accessible to all. In C. Johnson, M. Mohr-Schroeder, T. Moore, & L. English (Eds.), Handbook of research on STEM education (pp. 311–322). London: Routledge.
  • Suh, E. K. J., & Jensen, D. (2020). Transdisciplinary cosmopolitanism: An exploration of communities of practice and professional identities in developmental education. Journal of Basic Writing, 39(2), 33–57.
  • Suh, E. K. J., Hoffman, L., Hughes, M., & Zollman, A. (2020). The twelve-foot basketball player task: STEM circles score points and win academic goals with emergent multilingual students. Middle School Journal, 51(3), 11–18. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/00940771.2020.1735872
  • Zollman, A., Hoffman, L., & Suh, E. K. J. (2020). Investigating a STEM circle approach with multilingual students and families. In Research Council on Mathematics Learning (Vol. 47, pp. 18–25).
  • Suh, E. K. J., & Hodges, R. (2020). Generation 1 learners in college: Learning support for adult-arrival immigrant students. Journal of Developmental Education, 43(3), 12–19.
  • Suh, E. K. J., Toth, C., & Tinoco, L. (2020). Two-year college English faculty professional development workload (Working Paper #5). Two-Year College English Association. Retrieved from https://ncte.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/TYCA_Working_Paper_5.pdf
  • Suh, E. K. J. (2020). Lost in translation: A taxonomic analysis of generation 1 learner and faculty expectations for being a college student. Journal of College Reading and Learning, 50(2), 94–112. Retrieved from DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10790195.2019.1620143
  • Jensen, D., & Suh, E. K. J. (2020). Introducing lived interventions: Located agency and teacher-scholar-activism as responses to neoliberalism. Basic Writing E-Journal, 16(1), 1–11. Retrieved from https://bwe.ccny.cuny.edu/Introduction%20Jensen%20and%20Suh.pdf
  • Summers, E. J., Suh, E. K. J., & Jarrett, S. M. (2020). A Critical Discourse Analysis of Developmental Educators’ Roles in Postsecondary Education.

2019

  • Suh, E. K. J., Dahlgren, D., Hughes, M., Keefe, T., & Allman, R. (2019). Conditions for success: Fostering first-year students’ growth mindset in developmental mathematics. Journal of the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 31(3), 63–78.
  • Palmquist, M., Wallraff, B., & Suh, E. K. J. (2019). In Conversation Grammar Exercises. In In  Conversation (2nd ed.) by Palmquist and Wallraff.
  • Suh, E. K. J., Hoffman, L., Albrecht, D., & Wade, S. (2019). Supporting student choice and voice: Examples from a secondary EL classroom project. InTESOL Journal, 16(1), 1–33.
  • Suh, E. K. J., Ross, P., Rada, G., & Thompson-Wolff, K. (2019). A transitions mission: Implementing a T.I.D.E.S. model. Journal of Developmental Education, 42(2), 12–19.

2018

  • Catalano, T., Shende, M., & Suh, E. K. J. (2018). Developing multilingual pedagogies and research through language study and reflection. International Journal of Multilingualism, 15(1), 1–18.
  • Dyer, J., McGee, B., & Suh, E. K. J. (2018, December). “It’s all in the syllabus”: Supporting culturally and linguistically diverse students in word and deed. NADE Writing Network Newsletter.
  • Hodges, R. B., Payne, E. M., Suh, E. K. J., Hernandez, P., Wu, N., Castillo, A., & Shetron, T. (2018). Changing demographics: Recommendations for Texas developmental educators. Journal of College Academic Support Programs, 1(2), 25–35.
  • Suh, E. K. (2018). Counting backwards toward the future of community college immigrant students: Conceptualizing generation 1 learners. Basic Writing E-Journal, 15(1). Retrieved from https://bwe.ccny.cuny.edu/Suh.htm
  • Suh, E. K. J. (2018). Democratic education and social justice: Understanding the theoretical building blocks of your teaching practice. In J. Hollenbeck (Ed.), The American process: Uniting all in one (pp. 13–19). Dubuque, IA, United States: Kendall Hunt.

2017

  • Suh, E. K. J. (2017). Revitalized SPINS, reaffirming connections. NADE News (12th ed., Vol. 39).
  • Suh, E. K. J., & Hodges, R. (2017). The cultural diversity committee: Leading NADE’s commitment to an organizational culture of social justice. NADE News (11th ed., Vol. 39).
  • Suh, E. K. J. (2017, October). Book Notes:  GARY GENOSKO, Critical semiotics: Theory, from information to affect. Language in Society.
  • Suh, E. K., & Jensen, D. (2017). Building professional autonomy: A way forward in hard times. Journal of Developmental Education (1st ed., Vol. 45, pp. 35–37).
  • Suh, E. K. J. (2017). Professionalization through politicization: Reaching beyond content silos to serve two-year college students. Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 45(1), 35–37.

2016

  • Suh, E. K. J. (2016). Language minority student transitions. Journal of Developmental Education, 40(1), 26–28.

2015

  • Suh, E. K. J. (2015). Language minority students transitioning  into developmental education.

2014

  • Suh, E. K. J. (2014). Teaching developmental English to Generation 1.5 students. NADE English SPIN Newsletter, 5, 1–5.

2009

  • Suh, E. K. J. (2009). Metapragmatic requesting instruction in an adult basic education-ESL classroom: A pilot study. MinneTESOL.