Bio:
Elizabeth (Liz) Kimball holds a PhD in English, with an emphasis in rhetoric and composition, from Temple University. She works in community and public writing, multilingual practice, rhetorical history, and engaged teaching and inclusive pedagogies. Her book manuscript, "Translingual Inheritance: Language Diversity in Early National Philadelphia", examines the dimensions of linguistic practice in the German, Quaker and African American communities at the time of U.S. national formation. She is an experienced writing program administrator and has developed a variety of successful community partnerships.