Female Leadership Identity in English Language Teaching

Doaa Rashed, Ph.D., is a professor in the English Department and Director of the Language Engagement Project at Rutgers University. A translingual, transnational scholar, her scholarship lies at the crossroads of leadership, identity development, and transnationalism. Debra Suarez, Ph.D., serves in key ELT leadership roles. A former federal leader with the US Department of Education, and Senior Advisor for the White House Initiative AAPI, Dr. Suarez is a university professor and President (2024–2025) of TESOL International Association.

Foreword

 Brett Elizabeth Blake

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors



PART 1: An Introduction to Female Leadership in ELT



Introduction to Part 1

 Doaa Rashed and Debra Suarez



1 Female Leadership Identity in English Language Teaching: Autoethnographies of Global Perspectives – Framing the Conversation

 Doaa Rashed



PART 2: Gender and Culture



Introduction to Part 2

 Doaa Rashed and Debra Suarez



2 Power, Identity and Agency: An Autoethnographic Life History of a Latin American ELT Female Leader

 Lena Barrantes-Elizondo



3 Power as a Lived Experience: The Negotiation of Professional Identity as a TESOL Leader

 Ana-Marija Petrunic



4 Pretending Everything Was Fine: Serving as a Female Leader in Uncertain Territory

 Kate Mastruserio Reynolds



5 Age, Power, Gender, and Identity Tensions: An Autoethnography of an African Female Leader

 Amira Salama



6 A Leader’s Journey: From Followership to Leadership to “Academic Grandma”

 Debra Suarez



7 Reimagining Women Leadership in TESOL: Advocating for Change, Harnessing Reflexivity, and Humanizing Practices

 Marie Webb, Quanisha Charles, Sarah Henderson Lee, Shannon Tanghe and Gloria Park



PART 3: Race and Power



Introduction to Part 3

 Doaa Rashed and Debra Suarez



8 War, Language, and Leadership: A Female English Language Teacher Leader’s Perspective

 May F. Chung



9 Still We Rise: Collaborative Autoethnographic Perspectives from Black Women in English Language Teaching and Leadership

 Ayanna Cooper, Tasha Austin, Mary Romney, Kisha Bryan and Darlyne de Haan



10 LEAPing as a Filipino in Korean ELT: My Journey towards Developing a Transformational Leadership Identity

 Teri Rose Dominica Roh



11 The Challenges and Opportunities for Decolonizing TESOL in the Canadian Context: Reflecting on Expressions of Leadership

 Amea Wilbur, Taslim Damji and Tanya Cowie



PART 4: Transnationalism and Multilingualism



Introduction to Part 4

 Doaa Rashed and Debra Suarez



12 A Journey of Border-Crossing: An Autoethnography of a Transnational Female Leader from Egypt in the United States

 Doaa Rashed,/i>



13 Redefining Leadership in TESOL through Multimodal Collaborative Autoethnographic Inquiry: Perspectives from Transnational Women

 Cristina Sánchez-Martín and Su Yin Khor



14 Situating the Self: Developing as a Transnational Latina Leader

 Xatli Stox



15 Home Away from Home: An Autoethnography of an Asian Female’s Leadership Identity

 Lan Wang-Hiles



PART 5: A Harmony of Voices



Introduction to Part 5

 Doaa Rashed and Debra Suarez



16 A Harmony of Voices: Themes and Conclusion – Complexity of Female Leadership Identity in English Language Teaching

 Doaa Rashed and Debra Suarez



Index