About Marlen

arlen Elliot Harrison is a social identity and interdisciplinary researcher interested in narrative and phenomenological research methodologies. Currently teaching as temporary faculty in the English department at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) and completing his PhD in Composition and TESOL at IUP, Harrison spent 4 years teaching English at Japanese universities and the Osaka International School. A former mental health counselor who received his MA in Education and Human Development from The George Washington University, he works at the crossroads of language, cultural anthropology, sociology, queer studies, and psychology to explore how both spoken and written language are shaped by culture and identity (and vice versa). Harrison’s research interests are focused in three main areas: language, sexuality, gender, and performance of identities; technology, literacy, community, and composition; and teaching English as an additional language, project-based learning, and learner/instructor development. Interested in Asian cultures and languages, semiotics and pop culture, mythology, archetypes, the monomyth, and world folklore, Harrison also greatly enjoys teaching literature, film, sexuality, and dramatic arts. His dissertation focuses on the intersection between second language identities and queer sexualities in Japan. He may be contacted at m dot e dot harrison at iup dot edu.

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