Jihyun Nam is an associate faculty member of the ESL program at Shoreline Community College (SCC). He received an M.A. degree in TESOL & Applied Linguistics and a Ph.D. degree in Language Education at Indiana University at Bloomington. Prior to arriving at SCC, he taught pre-service teachers a variety of TESOL courses at St. Norbert College, the University of South Florida, and Campbellsville University. His research areas include critical approaches to the ESL context such as critical literacy, critical discourse analysis, critical ethnography, and critical qualitative methodology.