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.

• ForewordBrett Elizabeth BlakePrefaceAcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsPART 1: An Introduction to Female Leadership in ELTIntroduction to Part 1Doaa Rashed and Debra Suarez1 Female Leadership Identity in English Language Teaching: Autoethnographies of Global Perspectives – Framing the ConversationDoaa RashedPART 2: Gender and CultureIntroduction to Part 2Doaa Rashed and Debra Suarez2 Power, Identity and Agency: An Autoethnographic Life History of a Latin American ELT Female LeaderLena Barrantes-Elizondo3 Power as a Lived Experience: The Negotiation of Professional Identity as a TESOL LeaderAna-Marija Petrunic4 Pretending Everything Was Fine: Serving as a Female Leader in Uncertain TerritoryKate Mastruserio Reynolds5 Age, Power, Gender, and Identity Tensions: An Autoethnography of an African Female LeaderAmira Salama6 A Leader’s Journey: From Followership to Leadership to “Academic Grandma”Debra Suarez7 Reimagining Women Leadership in TESOL: Advocating for Change, Harnessing Reflexivity, and Humanizing PracticesMarie Webb, Quanisha Charles, Sarah Henderson Lee, Shannon Tanghe and Gloria ParkPART 3: Race and PowerIntroduction to Part 3Doaa Rashed and Debra Suarez8 War, Language, and Leadership: A Female English Language Teacher Leader’s PerspectiveMay F. Chung9 Still We Rise: Collaborative Autoethnographic Perspectives from Black Women in English Language Teaching and LeadershipAyanna Cooper, Tasha Austin, Mary Romney, Kisha Bryan and Darlyne de Haan10 LEAPing as a Filipino in Korean ELT: My Journey towards Developing a Transformational Leadership IdentityTeri Rose Dominica Roh11 The Challenges and Opportunities for Decolonizing TESOL in the Canadian Context: Reflecting on Expressions of LeadershipAmea Wilbur, Taslim Damji and Tanya CowiePART 4: Transnationalism and MultilingualismIntroduction to Part 4Doaa Rashed and Debra Suarez12 A Journey of Border-Crossing: An Autoethnography of a Transnational Female Leader from Egypt in the United StatesDoaa Rashed,/i>13 Redefining Leadership in TESOL through Multimodal Collaborative Autoethnographic Inquiry: Perspectives from Transnational WomenCristina Sánchez-Martín and Su Yin Khor14 Situating the Self: Developing as a Transnational Latina LeaderXatli Stox15 Home Away from Home: An Autoethnography of an Asian Female’s Leadership IdentityLan Wang-HilesPART 5: A Harmony of VoicesIntroduction to Part 5Doaa Rashed and Debra Suarez16 A Harmony of Voices: Themes and Conclusion – Complexity of Female Leadership Identity in English Language TeachingDoaa Rashed and Debra SuarezIndex