Rate My Professor Kellen Sewell-Ayton

Kelleen Sewell-Ayton serves as an Instructor in the Department of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy at The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, within the Faculty of Humanities and Education. Her role is specifically in the English Language Section as an Academic Literacies Instructor. She earned a Master of Arts in English Language and a Bachelor of Education from The University of the West Indies. Her professional interests center on Academic Literacies, which informs her teaching and contributions to undergraduate foundational education.

In her capacity at UWI Mona, Sewell-Ayton acts as the Course Coordinator and Lecturer for FOUN 1014, Critical Reading and Writing in Science and Technology, a three-credit year-one foundation course aimed at enhancing students' critical reading, writing, and communication skills in science and technology fields. She has been involved in teaching this course across multiple semesters, including summer school sessions, supported by tutors and other lecturers. In the 2022/2023 academic year, she was granted tenure with indefinite employment, effective retroactively from August 1, 2022. Sewell-Ayton engages in departmental outreach and public service, presenting to students from other departments and representing UWI on the National Association of Teachers of English (NATE), Jamaica. On February 23, 2023, she facilitated interactive sessions on Modules 1 and 2 of the Communication Studies syllabus as part of the Linguistics Section's annual Linguistics Day event, targeted at high school students and teachers to promote language and linguistics education. Through these activities, she supports the department's mission in language instruction, academic literacies development, and community engagement within the broader field of linguistics and philosophy.