Faishal Zakaria
Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Ar-Raniry Banda Aceh
Indonesia

Faishal Zakaria, Ph.D. is a tenured English teacher educator from Ar-Raniry State Islamic University (UIN Ar-Raniry), Banda Aceh, Aceh - Indonesia. With the Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education (LPDP) sponsorship, he recently earned a Ph.D. in Literacy, Culture, and Language Education from Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana, USA. Dr. Faishal’s dissertation research focused on online professional development (PD) communities for Indonesian English language teacher educators. With a Fulbright scholarship, he attained an MA in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2008.  His professional and research interests lie in the area of online PD, English teacher education, qualitative inquiry, and critical literacies and pedagogies.