Teaching drives my research. Drawing on a range of fields—first-year writing pedagogy, writing program administration, social justice pedagogy, rhetorical listening and rhetorical empathy, rhetorical genre studies, intersectionality, trauma theory, and the rhetoric of health and medicine—I utilize research to help create a culture of belonging in first-year composition.
Current Projects
“Joy: A Compass Through Failure.” Chapter in Progress. Under development for publication in Joy-informed Pedagogy: Giving Students Reason to Learn with Routledge.
Selected Publications
“Actionable Empathy Through Rhetorical Listening: A Possible Future for First-Year Composition.” Co-authored with Allison Tharp. College Composition and Communication 74.4 (June 2023).
“Pathologizing the Wounded?: Interrogating PTSD in An Era of Gun Violence.”Rhetoric of Health and Medicine 3.1 (March 2020): 1-33.
“The SRPR Interview: On Elizabeth Hatmaker.” Spoon River Poetry Review 44.2 (Summer 2019): 55-67.
Review of The Hunting Ground. Women’s Studies in Communication 20.3 (July 2017): 19.
Meditations on Leaving. Press 254/Word Bombing Chapbook Series. Illinois State University Publications Unit (Spring 2017). (Copies available for purchase through Press 254.)