Dr. Gail Shuck joined the Boise State English faculty in 2001, specializing in English as a Second Language. She earned her Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching from the University of Arizona with a dissertation entitled "Imagining the Native Speaker: The Poetics of Complaint in University Student Discourse". Dr. Shuck teaches first-year ESL writing and applied linguistics for ESL teachers, and works to coordinate efforts around the university to improve English instruction for the ever-increasing multilingual student population, and to raise awareness among faculty and staff of second language acquisition processes. She is an active presenter at conferences and workshops at both the regional and national levels. Her research interests include discourse analysis, second language writing, and ideologies of language.