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UOG English Instructor Simpson-Warner Successfully Defends Doctoral Dissertation

UOG English Instructor Simpson-Warner Successfully Defends Doctoral Dissertation

UOG English Instructor Simpson-Warner Successfully Defends Doctoral Dissertation


1/5/2026
UOG CSW Committee
Carol Simpson-Warner (center) poses with UOG Associate Professor Clarisa Quan (left) and UOG Senior Vice President and Provost Sharleen Santos-Bamba (right), two of the members on her doctoral defense committee.
Carol Simpson-Warner (standing)
Carol Simpson-Warner (standing) discusses her research during her doctoral dissertation defense on December 12 at the UOG RFK Library.
Carol Simpson-Warner, UOG instructor of English
Carol Simpson-Warner, UOG instructor of English, earned her doctorate in interdisciplinary studies from the University of Alaska Fairbanks after successfully completing her dissertation defense on December 12 at the UOG RFK Library.
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Carol Simpson-Warner, an instructor of English at the University of Guam, passed her doctoral dissertation defense in the interdisciplinary studies Ph.D. program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks on December 12. The program is a partnership between UAF and UOG that allows students to customize their curriculum by combining coursework from multiple disciplines.

Simpson-Warner’s dissertation, titled “Writers' Stories of Process and Product: Cross-Language Consideration in the Editing of the Predominantly English Language Work of Translingual Writers in Guam,” examines the linguistic choices, practices, and values of three Pacific Islander writers in their academic and creative writing.

“The University of Guam, in partnership with the University of Alaska Fairbanks, is extremely proud of Professor Simpson-Warner and the research she successfully defended,” said Dr. Sharleen Santos-Bamba, UOG Senior Vice President and Provost and co-chair of Simpson-Warner’s dissertation committee. “Her dissertation is of high quality and contributes to the discourse of writing research in Micronesia.”

Simpson-Warner is a two-time alumna of UOG and holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and a Master of Education in Reading. She has been teaching English composition classes at UOG under the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences since 2002.