User:Mihali Skierkiewicz

I grew up in Rochester, NY, USA. I have a BS in Fine Art from Rochester Institute of Technology (sculpture, printmaking, painting), and a MS in Secondary Deaf Education from the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. I am currently a 2nd year PhD student in the University of Rochester's Warner School, in the Teaching and Curriculum program.

My current research interests are in disabilities studies, literacy using multimodal methods of delivery, language development, cognition and consciousness, aesthetics and how they can impact literacy development. Other topics that I find fascinating include, teacher intensification (overloading), multiliteracies, qualitative research/ethnography, postmodernist/poststructural theory, and technology within globalism.