Jillian Hunt is a first-year M.A. student in the TESL/Applied Linguistics program. She graduated from the University of Dubuque in 2019 with a BS in Secondary English Education. She completed student teaching in a high school and hopes to continue working with high school students in the future. During her time as an undergraduate, she worked as a university writing tutor and as the managing editor of University of Dubuque’s campus newspaper. Her main field of interest is in the intersection of second language acquisition and literature.