I grew up along the Gulf Coast of Alabama and received my undergraduate and Master's degrees from The University of South Alabama. I received my Ph.D. in Rhetoric & Composition with a focus on New Media Studies and Professional Writing in 2008 from Illinois State University. At Winthrop University, I teach courses in composition, rhetorical theory, professional writing, and digital rhetorics where I encourage students to think about their own reading and writing practices and the influence of technology on the circulation of texts.
I spend most of my time with my dog, Beau, and perfecting the best cup of coffee. I'm currently enjoying Bones Coffee Brownie small batch.
I spend most of my time with my dog, Beau, and perfecting the best cup of coffee. I'm currently enjoying Bones Coffee Brownie small batch.
Research
I regularly present and conduct workshops at national conferences. My research focuses on the intersections of identity, textuality, and online communities, examining digital activism, the circulation of texts, and the shifting expectations of digital and textual genres.
My sabbatical project centered on intellectual property and DIY and maker communities. As part of this research, I compiled case studies that will form the foundation of an interdisciplinary course on IP and creative work I hope to teach within the next 3 years.
A book chapter on the legacy of mentoring in writing center directorship was published April, 2024 in an edited collection, Mentorship/Methodology edited by Leigh Gruwell and Charles Lesh. Here, I examine writing center discourse and its lore to trace how the field has shaped the mentoring expectations of directors, the conflicts that arise when expectations are challenged, and the potential for reframing mentoring with equity in mind.
A forthcoming article in a symposium issue of Rhetoric Review, "Lost Girl Fandom and Bisexual Community Building" draws Lost Girl fandom to show the importance of 2010s queer blog spaces, where users created and circulated gifs and screen captures of queer coded characters and queer relationships. I highlight how these media became a form of expression and identification, recalling my history in these fandoms to ensure that early bisexual digital experiences are not erased. Further, I acknowledge and celebrate the queer fandoms that drove fan participation.
Collaboration (co-authored research)
With Charles Woods, I have written about podcasts as a tool for invention in composition classrooms, and as texts to be studied and theorized. We have a chapter about the activist potential of podcasts in writing classrooms, "Podcasting: Moving Students From Sonic Intimacy to Social Advocacy" forthcoming in an edited collection, Practicing Digital Activisms. Our piece, “The Feminist Research Methodologies of Podcasts in Rhetoric and Composition,” was published in the Cluster Conversation feature of Peitho in Spring 2023. Our pedagogical focused work, “Engaging Podcasts as a Dynamic Genre for Invention" was in included vol. 4 of Writing Spaces in the “An Archive of Activities and Assignments” Summer 2021. We published a presentation on ethics and true crime podcasts, “Negotiating Ethics of Participatory Investigation in True CrimePodcasts,” with Courtney Cox in The Proceedings of the Annual Computers and Writing Conference 2019.
Previous scholarship, co-authored with Amber Buck, published in a special issue of Computers and Composition Online calls for a more nuanced understanding of ethics when researching digital media spaces like X (Twitter) and blogs.
My sabbatical project centered on intellectual property and DIY and maker communities. As part of this research, I compiled case studies that will form the foundation of an interdisciplinary course on IP and creative work I hope to teach within the next 3 years.
A book chapter on the legacy of mentoring in writing center directorship was published April, 2024 in an edited collection, Mentorship/Methodology edited by Leigh Gruwell and Charles Lesh. Here, I examine writing center discourse and its lore to trace how the field has shaped the mentoring expectations of directors, the conflicts that arise when expectations are challenged, and the potential for reframing mentoring with equity in mind.
A forthcoming article in a symposium issue of Rhetoric Review, "Lost Girl Fandom and Bisexual Community Building" draws Lost Girl fandom to show the importance of 2010s queer blog spaces, where users created and circulated gifs and screen captures of queer coded characters and queer relationships. I highlight how these media became a form of expression and identification, recalling my history in these fandoms to ensure that early bisexual digital experiences are not erased. Further, I acknowledge and celebrate the queer fandoms that drove fan participation.
Collaboration (co-authored research)
With Charles Woods, I have written about podcasts as a tool for invention in composition classrooms, and as texts to be studied and theorized. We have a chapter about the activist potential of podcasts in writing classrooms, "Podcasting: Moving Students From Sonic Intimacy to Social Advocacy" forthcoming in an edited collection, Practicing Digital Activisms. Our piece, “The Feminist Research Methodologies of Podcasts in Rhetoric and Composition,” was published in the Cluster Conversation feature of Peitho in Spring 2023. Our pedagogical focused work, “Engaging Podcasts as a Dynamic Genre for Invention" was in included vol. 4 of Writing Spaces in the “An Archive of Activities and Assignments” Summer 2021. We published a presentation on ethics and true crime podcasts, “Negotiating Ethics of Participatory Investigation in True CrimePodcasts,” with Courtney Cox in The Proceedings of the Annual Computers and Writing Conference 2019.
Previous scholarship, co-authored with Amber Buck, published in a special issue of Computers and Composition Online calls for a more nuanced understanding of ethics when researching digital media spaces like X (Twitter) and blogs.