Arry Purnama, PhD
Assistant Professor of English
Office: Jl. Soekarno Hatta No.777, Cisaranten Endah, Arcamanik, Kota Bandung, Jawa Barat 40292, Indonesia
Email: arrypurnama@unfari.ac.id
Education
Ph.D. in Composition and Applied Linguistics, Department of English, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. 2024.
Master of Humanities in Science Literature, English Linguistics Concentration, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Padjajaran University (Indonesia). 2015.
Bachelor of Humanities in English Linguistics, Faculty of Adab and Humanities, State Islamic University Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung. 2013.
Academic Interests
Language Pedagogy, Critical Pedagogy, Critical Discourse Analysis, Systemic Functional Linguistics, Linguistic Anthropology, Raciolinguistics, Cultural Studies.
Profile
My teaching emerges not only from experiencing transnational learning situations, which familiarized me with the current scholarship, but also from reflecting on my past pedagogical practices to support my overarching vision of promoting social justice. Thus, I am always open to reconfiguring and refining my teaching practices, so long as it serves my mission of cultivating students’ critical thinking and empowering their voices that echo my vision of promoting social justice.
I also seek to instil in my students a sense of social justice through my pedagogy. My goal is to help them think and cultivate their critical thinking about social injustice prevailing worldwide. Thus, as a lecturer, I dedicate myself to creating access and making space for all students, regardless of their background and diverse abilities. As teaching and research are equally essential and interwoven, my interest in social justice transfers to my research trajectory and agenda. Most of my studies in the past feature critical discourse analysis approaches and procedures, a field of study that strongly focuses on dismantling power imbalance, relations, and ideology to unpack social injustice. In my dissertation work, I slightly shift my focus on language and ethnoraciality to observe and embark on a discussion of their intersectionality in the Indonesian context, yet, with the persisting objective of advocating social justice.
Course Specialties
SIS109 Introduction to Linguistics
SIS407 Writing for Language Tests
SIS410 Structure for Language Tests
SIS506 Systemic Functional Linguistics
