Gloria Park (director of the MA TESOL and Composition and Applied Linguistics PhD programs in the English Department) was invited to write the foreword for the edited book Critical Storytelling: Multilingual Immigrants in the United States, published by Sense Publishers.
The book is a "collection of poems and personal and visual narratives of multilingual immigrants in the United States." In Park's foreword, titled "Engaging in critical storytelling as a transnational immigrant woman in academy: (Un)learning from our stories and lived experiences," Park introduces the variety of works within the book and relates them to her personal experiences as a transnational teacher-scholar who immigrated to the U.S. from Korea. She describes the concepts of marginalization, agency, identity, and critical consciousness, which are evoked in these writings through critical storytelling. Read Park's full invited foreword.