As we all know, once we decide to engage in a post-doctorate program, we will need to find a supervisor. Naturally, this professional has to be someone who has been doing work in the same are of our interest and who will decisively be able to contribute to our professional development. The moment I envisioned to participate in such an endeavor, I thought of Dr. Graham Crookes, professor and chair of the Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa. I wrote him, and although he was working in China at the moment I tried to contact him, once he could respond, he replied to my invitation very positively. I was really glad to have that positive answer and great support. It is fantastic for a recent doctor to have the chance to work with someone so experienced. Dr. Crookes' specialties include the methodology of language teaching and teacher development (including practice teaching supervision and more recently, philosophy of teaching). Besides teaching regular graduate and undergraduate courses for the Department of SLS, he has conducted courses and workshops for teachers especially on teaching methodology, action research, and critical pedagogy. More recently, he has published the volume "Critical ELT: foundations, promises, praxis" (Routledge 2013), and his main research interests at present are critical language pedagogy and language teachers developing philosophies of teaching. Lots of common interests, I would say...
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