SCHOLARSHIP
My current scholarship focuses primarily on the intersection of rhetorical theory, complexity theory, and ideology to account for how persuasion (and the products of persuasion - texts, identities, cultures, etc.) emerge in a posthumanist world.
My areas of interest more generally are:
Rhetorical Theory and History
Contemporary Theories of Subjectivity & IdentityCritical Theory and Cultural Studies
Feminist Theories (Gender, Sexuality, Discourse)
Composition Theory and PedagogyRhetorics and Poetics
Utopian Rhetorics and Feminist Science Fiction
Post-structuralist Psychoanalytic Theory
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Articles
"Learning to Lean on Each Other: Peer Mentoring for Teacher Development."
FormaMente: International Research Journal of Digital Future.
2.3-4 (2007): 231-7. Co-authored with Alexis Ramsey.
"Enthymematic Rhetoric and Student Resistance to Critical Pedagogies."
Rhetoric Review 25.4 (2006): 427-443.
Invited Pedagogical Publications
"MLA Overview and Workshop." The OWL at Purdue. Ed. Allen Brizee. 18 July 2007.
Purdue Online Writing Lab.
"APA Overview and Workshop." The OWL at Purdue. Ed. Dana Driscoll. 17 May 2007.
Purdue Online Writing Lab.
"Learning to Lean on Each Other: Peer Mentoring for Teacher Development."
Online Module & Listserv Moderation. May 2007. Teaching Composition Listserv.
Co-authored with Alexis Ramsey.
RECENT PRESENTATIONS
"Translating Rhetorical Circulation for Students Using Gladwell's The Tipping Point."
Conference on College Composition and Communication. Louisville, KY. March 2010.
"Hailing the Single Female Voter: Civic Obligation v. Individual Freedom." Feminisms and
Rhetorics Conference . Lansing , MI. October 2009.
"What the Tech? : The Promises and Perils of Teaching with Blogs." Carolinas Communication
Conference . Wilmington , NC . September 2009.
"Ripple Effect: A New Perspective on Rhetorical Agency." Conference on College
Composition and Communication. San Francisco, CA — March 2009.
"The Ideological Invitation of Enthymeme and the Rhetorical Constitution of Subjects."
Rhetorical Society of America Conference. Seattle, WA — May 2008.
"Bound by the Normative Net: Feminist Persuasion in Magazines for Women." Feminisms
and Rhetorics Conference. Little Rock, AR. — October 2007.
"Making Assumptions, Assuming Identities: Subjecting Students in the Composition
Classroom." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL —
March 2007.
WORK UNDER REVIEW
“Assuming Differently: Towards a Posthumanist Rhetoric of Change” (under review at JAC )
“The Post-Oedipal Desire for the Superhero Narrative in M. Night Shyamalan's Unbreakable”
(under review at Journal of Popular Film and Television)
FUTURE PROJECTS/INTERESTS
"Birthers and Deathers: Understanding the “Ideologic” of Inferred Justification in the
Rhetoric of the Right" (will be presented at Rhetoric Society of American Conference in
May 2010; UNCW research grant to complete an article manuscript as well)
"Cutting the Cord: Seeking a New Bodily Rhetoric for Non-phallic Subjects" (was a 2005
Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference presentation; under revision into an article
manuscript)
"Utopia: The Model of Rhetorical Poetics in Literature" (interest for future research and/or
teaching on how utopian texts provide a model for approaching the relationship
between rhetorics and poetics in literature)