Danah Hashem

Curriculum Vitae

   

Education:

  • M.A. English, M.A. Teaching
    Salem State University, Salem, MA
    GPA of 4.0
    Completed 2016
    Thesis: "Facing Trauma Through Art: Arab Women’s War Narratives"
    Advisor: Stephenie Young

  • B.S. Chemical Engineering, minor in Business Administration
    University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
    GPA of 3.65
    Completed 2011
    Honors Thesis: "Semi-Batch Nanofiltration of Bio-Oil"
    Advisor: Ihab H. Farag

Certifications:

  • Preliminary License, English (8-12), Massachusetts Office of Educator Licensure

  • Sheltered English Immersion (SEI) Endorsement

  • College board AP English Language & Composition Endorsed

Teaching Experience:

University:

  • Fall 2025 - Current Assistant Director of the Writing Center
    University of Massachusetts Boston
    Collaborate with the administrative team for the university-wide Writing Center to promote an inclusive, antiracist, and supportive environment for students, faculty, and staff to join a culture of writing and creativity. Organize, coordinate, generate materials for, and run various events including workshops, trainings, community-building activities, and writing groups. Connect with various programs and departments across the university to work together in our efforts to make genuine self expression and composition available to all members of our community equally.

  • Fall 2022-Fall 2025 Associate Lecturer
    University of Massachusetts Boston
    Teach multiple sections of Composition 101 and 102, including undergraduate and Early College sections, synchronously and in person, designing engaging, student-centered lessons, discussions, activities, and assignments to build strong rhetorical and genre awareness in interdisciplinary students composing within academic contexts.

  • Fall 2021-Fall 2022 Adjunct Faculty at the Endicott College Van Loan School of Professional Studies
    Endicott College, Beverly, MA
    Teach accelerated undergraduate sections of Level 2 of Critical Reading and Writing skills remotely and asynchronously; design and implement the course in Canvas to allow for clear, engaging, and rewarding learning while also promoting community and remaining available to students for guidance and support in their work.

    High School:

  • Fall 2016-Spring 2022         High School English Teacher
    Lexington Christian Academy, Lexington, MA
    Teach Grade 9 Foundations of Language and Literature, Grade 10 World Literature, and AP Language and Composition; plan and implement lesson plans for all classes, working closely with LCA's special education department when necessary.

  • Summer 2019 SAT Prep Class Instructor
    Lexington Prep School, Lexington, MA
    Prepare high school students for the Reading and Language portions of the SAT by teaching strategies, vocabulary, and question types. Conduct and review practice tests with a goal of raising test scores by the end of the session.

  • Fall 2017-Spring 2020        Director of Advanced Senior Research
    Lexington Christian Academy, Lexington, MA
    Coordinate the applications, selection process, independent research, and final presentations of individual grade 11 and 12 students proposing year-long personal research projects; meet regularly with researchers and their faculty mentors to facilitate and guide the research process.

  • Spring 2016        Student Teacher
    Newburyport High School, Newburyport, MA
    Taught two sections of Grade 12 CP English, one section of Grade 12 Honors English, and two sections of Grade 10 CP English; collaboratively and independently planned lessons for all classes; differentiated and modified lessons in order to make them accessible for students on IEPs and 504s; assumed responsibility for grading of all senior classes.

  • 2014-2015        Building-Based Educator
    Humanities and Leadership Development High School, Lawrence, MA
    Tutored and substituted core academic classes for grades 9 through 12; co-led community and social support groups for students; implemented lesson plans left by classroom teachers; provided additional academic and management support in the classroom; ran workshops on homework skills, college essay-writing, and anxiety management; and worked one-on-one with students struggling academically.

    Other:

  • Spring 2018 - Spring 2020 Student Newspaper Faculty Mentor
    Lexington Christian Academy, Lexington, MA
    Work closely with student editors to brainstorm, draft, edit, and produce newsworthy articles on student life in the school’s digital student paper, integrating informal lessons on rhetoric and composition into the publication process.

Publications:

Books

  • 2024    Sonic Literacy: Using Sound to Teach High School Reading and Writing (with Anne Mooney). NCTE.

Scholarly Webtexts:

  • 2017    "Transmodality in Action: A Manifesto." Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy (with Kate Artz and Anne Mooney).

  • 2016    "Navigating the Soundscape, Composing with Audio." Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy (with Tanya Rodrigue, Kate Artz, Julia Bennett, M.P. Carver, Megan Grandmont, Anne Mooney, Michael Rand, Amy Zimmerman).

Other Publications:

  • 2021 “Cultivating EL-Inclusive ELA Classrooms by Reading Sound Texts.” Heinemann Blog (with Anne Mooney), February 2021.

  • 2020 “Using Sound Texts in Antiracist Teaching.” Edutopia (with Anne Mooney), July 2020.

  • 2020 “Building Student Relationships Online.” Literacy & NCTE: The official blog of the National Council of Teachers of English, July 2020.

  • 2020 “Starting Small with Maker Education.” Edutopia (with Rebecca Lefroy), April 2020.

  • 2019 “Why Try Podcasting in the Classroom?” Literacy & NCTE: The official blog of the National Council of Teachers of English. November 2019.

  • 2017 "6 Reasons to Try a Single-Point Rubric." Edutopia. October 2017.

  • 2017 "Teaching Composition Using Transcripts." Literacy & NCTE: The official blog of the National Council of Teachers of English (with Kate Artz and Anne Mooney). October 2017.

  • 2017 "More Than a Grade: Cultivating Intellectual Play in Students." Literacy & NCTE: The official blog of the National Council of Teachers of English. September 2017.

  • 2016 "Let's Teach, Not Police: Expanding Our Understanding of Plagiarism in Efforts to Combat it" Write to Learn, Learn to Write. Salem State University, May 2016.

  • 2015 "Teaching Writing in the 21st Century Classroom" Write to Learn, Learn to Write. Salem State University, December 2015

Conference Activity/Participation:

Panels:

  • Playing Sounds of College Literacies: Dialing in to Sonic Teaching. Presenting with Kati Fargo Ahern, Jennifer Buckner, and Tanya Rodrigue at the 2025 CCCC’s Annual Convention “‘Computer Love’: Extended Play, B-sides, Remix, Collaboration, and Creativity”. April 9-12, Forthcoming.

  • Author Strand Session for Sonic Literacy: Using Sound to Teach High School Reading and Writing. Presented with Anne Mooney at NCTE’s 2024 Conference “Heart, Hope, Humanity”. November 21-24, 2024.

  • Teaching Audio Rhetoric: How to Perform Close Readings on Audio Texts. Presented with Anne Mooney at NCTE’s 2022 Conference “¡Sueños! Pursuing the Light!". November 17, 2022.

  • Using Podcasting to Amplify Student Voices in Research Writing. Presented with Anne Mooney at NEATE’s 2022 Conference “Literacy as Agency: Empowering teachers and students through reading, writing, and voice.” November 15, 2022.

  • Empowering Teachers to Reclaim Their Classrooms Using Sound Texts. Presented with Anne Mooney at NEATE’s 2021 Conference “The Year of the Teacher: Agency, Empowerment and Care.” December 14, 2021.

  • Making Audio Accessible: Teaching Transcription as Composition. Presented with Kate Arts and Anne Mooney at NCTE's New England Summer Conference on College Composition & Communication: Sharing Best Practices at Boston University. May 24-25, 2017.

Individual Presentations:

  • Persuasion in the Mode of Sound: Teaching Rhetorical Appeals Using Radio Advertisements. Presented with Anne Mooney at NCTE’s 2024 Conference “Heart, Hope, Humanity”. November 21-24, 2024.

  • Using Audio Memoirs to Empower Student Voice in Writing. Presented with Anne Mooney at NCTE’s 2024 Conference “Heart, Hope, Humanity”. November 21-24, 2024.

  • Using Audio Texts to Cultivate Genre Awareness in Student Writers. Engaging Practices: A UMass Boston Conference on the Teaching of Composition. April 22, 2023.

  • Cultivating Antiracist Classrooms through Reading in the Audio Mode. Presented with Anne Mooney at NCTE’s 2022 Conference “¡Sueños! Pursuing the Light!".” November 18, 2022

  • Reading in the Audio Mode to Foster EL-Inclusive Classrooms. Presented with Anne Mooney at NCTE’s 2022 Conference “¡Sueños! Pursuing the Light!".” November 18, 2022

  • Using the Digital Writer/Reader Relationship to Teach Writing as a Social Act. Re-presented at Writing Vertically: Salem State University Writing Pedagogy Conference. May 14, 2015.

  • Using the Digital Writer/Reader Relationship to Teach Writing as a Social Act. Engaging Practices: A UMass Boston Conference on the Teaching of Composition. March 28, 2015.

  • Semi-Batch Nanofiltration of Bio-Oil. UNH Undergraduate Research Conference (URC). April 12-24, 2010.

  • Biodiesel Process and Control. American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) 2008 Annual Meeting: Fuels and Petrochemicals Division. November 19, 2008.

Posters:

  • Tales of a Webtext with 10 Authors: Pedagogical Affordances of Digital Collaboration Tools. Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). April 6-9, 2016.

  • Semi-Batch Nanofiltration of Bio-Oil. UNH Undergraduate Research Conference (URC). April 15-25, 2009.

Campus Talks:

  • Using the Single Point Rubric with High School Writing. Guest Speaker for Salem State University’s graduate Writing Pedagogy class. April 20, 2021.

  • Exploring Transmodality through the Writing of Transcripts for Audio Compositions. Guest Speaker for Salem State University's graduate Digital Writing class. April 27, 2016.

  • Using Digital Writing Activities in the Classroom. A Salem State University Writing Intensive Curriculum Program Brown Bag Lunch Event. February 17, 2016.

  • Contemporary Scheherazades: Arab Women Narrate Their War Stories. A Salem State University Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Research Conversation. December 3, 2015.

  • Writing a Thesis in the Digital Age. A Salem State University English Department Writing Workshop Panel. November 5, 2015.

Research Experience:

  • 2015-2016 Graduate Assistant

    Writing Intensive Curriculum (WIC) Program, Salem State University, Salem, MA
    Facilitated and led writing pedagogy events for faculty and graduate students throughout the academic year; gathered and compiled research on various topics relating to the teaching of writing including plagiarism, feedback on student papers, digital and multimodal writing, and assessment methods; assembled and edited the biannual WIC newsletter; helped organize and facilitate Salem State University's annual Writing Vertically conference on writing pedagogy

  • 2006-2010        Undergraduate Research Fellow
    University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
    Coordinate with the engineering department’s Ihab Farag, Ph.D., and Compact Membrane Systems, Inc. (CMS) to design, conduct, and report research on the filtration of bio-oil through proprietary CMS membranes