Education
• MA in TESOL – SIT Graduate Institute
• BA in World Languages and Cultures (Spanish, Turkish, Arabic) – Mercyhurst University

Biography
Emerson McMurray is an EFL specialist with expertise in the instruction of spoken English and academic writing. They are one of the founders of Translingual: The Journal of International Voices, IELP’s student journal. Emerson’s teaching in Turkey, Morocco, and China, as well as having been a foreign language student themselves in two countries, founded their pedagogical philosophies of empowering ELLs by preserving their cultural and linguistic identities in the acquired language. They believe that students must have ownership of English as an international language and that non-native English expression is beautiful in all its iterations. Emerson began working at OSU in 2021, before which they were EFL faculty at Cuyahoga Community College. Additionally, they served as Otterbein University’s ESL writing coordinator, where they founded The Howl, a student-lead publication. For Otterbein and SPPC Universities, they ran online content-based English language courses with subject matter like journalism, competitive debate, sociolinguistics, and American history.