Laila ElSerty is an Instructor at the Department of Rhetoric and Composition, the Academy of Liberal Arts, the American University in Cairo (AUC). ElSerty graduated in 2011 from AUC’s MATESOL program. Currently, she is working on her PhD dissertation in corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis. For over 20 years, ElSerty has been teaching a variety of courses to both undergraduate and graduate students. These include English for academic purposes, linguistics, business writing, and research writing courses. She is past Co-Chair of NileTESOL – AUC’s Virtual Conference in 2022. Her academic interests include Rhetoric and Composition, Multimodal Discourse Analysis, Meta-cognition, Curriculum Design, Experiential Learning, Global Learning, and Technology-Assisted Language Learning.