I situate my research in two areas.

First, I pursue projects at the intersections of rhetoric and composition, digital writing, and digital feminisms. I have already taken up issues of representations of disability in media in numerous conference presentations, and I have explored digital activism as part of a co-authored chapter, “Entanglements that Matter: A New Materialist Trace of #YesAllWomen,” and an article in Computers and Composition, “#MeToo: A Case Study in Digital Re-Embodiment.” In each of these publications, I explore the ways in which digital writing practices, and much digital media theory, may put the body under erasure, which obscures the experiences of the people who are represented by or who engage in digital writing. Thus, digital writing may lose its rhetorical influence. In my inquiry, I work to uncover strategies by which bodies and embodied experiences may be reunited with digital texts in order to restore context-dependent meaning, experience, and identity by examining the relationships between bodies, things, culture, and digital media. I’m interested in continuing to explore the ways that digital media and technology render or obfuscate marginalized bodies.

Second, I pursue scholarship related to experiences of disability and diverse embodiment, particularly as those experiences relate to writing center theory and practice. I began this inquiry with a variety of conference presentations that ultimately led to my dissertation, “The Door is Always Open: Understanding, Perception, and Accommodation of Disability in Writing Centers, ” which drew on a survey data collected through a national survey and three in-depth case studies of exemplary programs. These data provided me with significant insights into the position of disability and writers with disabilities in writing center settings. I am currently building on those insights in an in-progress article that shares provocative ideas from disability-centric writing centers.

In both areas, this research agenda is representative of my commitment to on-going research with roots in advocacy and activism. My interest in digital media activism, feminist information studies, and critical disability studies complicates current understandings of writing and writing bodies in productive ways that foreground difference by re-focusing attention on the body and its role in the making and sharing of knowledge. Finally, this agenda contributes to a growing conversation in rhetoric and composition that seeks to identify and theorize digital rhetorical strategies that result from embodied difference, with significant implications for rhetorical theory and practice.

This area of my portfolio includes bibliographic information for my publications and selected presentations. For a full list of presentations, please see my C.V.

Publications

In-Progress

“Social Justice, Universal Design, and Open-Access: Three Metaphors for Inclusive Writing Center Pedagogy,” manuscript being prepared to submit to Writing Center Journal.

Peer Reviewed Publications

“The Journal Behind the Curtain: Reflections on the Reflections Archive.” Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Rhetoric, September 2020.

“#MeToo: A Case Study in Re-Embodying Information.” Computers and Composition, 2019.

“Inhabiting the Border.” Teaching Writing with Bordered Writers: Lessons from Hispanic Serving Institutions, edited by Isabel Baca, Yndalecia Isaac Hinojosa, and Susan Wolff Murphy, SUNY Press, 2019.

“Entanglements that Matter: A New Materialist Trace of #YesAllWomen.” with Dustin Edwards in Circulation, Writing, and Rhetoric, edited by Laurie Gries and Collin Brooke, Utah State University Press, 2018.

Editorial Reviewed Publications

“Introducing the Social Justice & Gaming Blog Carnival.” with Paula M Miller. The Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative. Digital Rhetoric Collaborative. (2015).

“Wiki Wednesday: A Wikipedian’s Tale.” The Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative. Digital Rhetoric Collaborative. (2015).

“Wiki Wednesday: #GWWI & The Wikipedia Gender Gap.” The Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative. Digital Rhetoric Collaborative. (2014).

“#WriteMyCommunity: NDoW Showcase and Interview with Kathleen Yancey.” The Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative. Digital Rhetoric Collaborative. (2014).

Selected Presentations

“Made by Me, About Us, for You: Examining Community Literacy through Student-Produced Podcasts.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 2020. Cancelled due to COVID-19.

“#feminism: Toward a Typology of Hashtag Feminism.” Feminisms and Rhetorics. November, 2019.

“The Audience is Listening.” Conference on College Composition and Communication 2019 Digital Praxis Poster Session, March 2019.
Poster

“When Worlds Collide: Researching Transgressive Everyday Writing in/from Institutional Spaces.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 2019.
Paper Presentation

“Undergraduate Writing Programs in Liberal Arts Colleges.” Roundtable discussion with Jacob Craig, Alba Newmann Holmes, Jan Osborn, and Carie King. Association of Rhetoric and Writing Studies, October 2018.

“Interfacing the Center: Theory into Praxis” Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 2018.
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“Cultivating (Graduate) Writers: Encouraging Institutional Support, Meta-Awareness, and Writerly Habits in Dissertation Boot Camps.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 2017.
Paper Presentation Boot Camp Materials

“Universal Design and the Writing Center: Disability Studies and Threshold Concepts for Writing Center Studies.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, April 2016.
Paper Presentation

“Engaging Disability the Writing Center.” International Writing Center Association Conference, October 2015.
Partial Paper Presentation

“Life in the Margins: A Case Study of Digital Marginalia in Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s Planned Obsolesence” with Jeff Naftzinger, Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 2015.

“Reclaiming Pathos for the Disabled Rhetor: Authenticity, Empathy, and Michael J. Fox’s Parkinson’s Disease Activism.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference, May 2014.
Paper Presentation

“We are Anonymous: Engaging Hacktivism in Composition.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 2014
Paper Presentation

“Reclaiming the ‘Headless Fatty’: Multimodality and Embodied Activism in Online Spaces.” Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference, September 2013.
Paper Presentation