EDUCATION

 

Ph.D., University of South Florida, Rhetoric and Composition | 2014 – Present​

• Research areas: sports rhetoric, technical communication, digital rhetorics, feminist disability studies

 

M.A. Literature, University of South Florida | 2014  

 

B.A. English, University of Tampa | 2012  

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

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• "Teaching Public, Scientific Controversy: Genetically Modified Mosquitoes in the Technical Writing Classroom." Journal of Technical Writing and Communication. 1 December 2017.        
   

• "Anticipating the Unknown: Postpedagogy and Accessibility." With Dr. Mark Leahy. Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition. 20.1 (2017). 122-143.​
   

• “Networked Digital Spaces: Twitter in the Composition Classroom.” Engaging 21st Century Writers with Social Media. Ed. Kendra Bryan, IGI Global. August 2016.

    

• Network, Collaborate, Compose: College Writing in the Digital Age. 2nd ed. Tampa: University of South Florida, 2015. Edited Textbook. 

 

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

 

National Conferences​
 

• "Fighting Bodies: Reinterpreting the Rhetoric of Violence in Combat Sports." Rhetoric Society of America. Minneapolis, MN. May 2018.
   

• "Caped Crusaders in the Classroom: The Benefits of Teaching with Comics, Not Just Graphic Novels." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Kansas City, MO. March 2018. ​
   

• "Resisting and Rewriting Bodily Narratives Through Combat Sports." Feminisms and Rhetoric. Dayton, OH. October 2017. 
   

• "How Online Communities Democratize Public, Scientific Controversy: A Study of GMO Mosquitoes in the Florida Keys." Rhetoric Society of America. Atlanta, GA. May 2016. 
   

• "GMOsquitoes: Controversy Over the Release of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes in the Florida Keys." Conference on College Composition and Communication. Houston, TX. April 2016.​
   

• “Margaret Cavendish Versus the Royal Society: Creating a Rhetorical Space for Female Scientists.” Women’s Ways of Making: Feminisms and Rhetorics. Arizona, October 2015. 
   

• “Incorporating Technical Communication Into Literature Programs.” Poster Presentation. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Tampa, FL. March 2015.
   

• “Big Data and First-Year Composition: Philosophical, Practical, and Pedagogical Applications of the My Reviewers Corpus.” Conference on Pedagogy, Practice, and Philosophy. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. January 2015.

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE

           

Professor of Practice

University at Buffalo | 2018 - present 

• EAS 360 STEM Communication 

 

Graduate Teaching Assistant

University of South Florida | 2012 - 2018 

• IDS 6238 Communicating the Value of Sustainability, co-taught with Dr. Carl Herndl and Lauren Cagle

• ENC 6745 Practice in Teaching Composition, teaching assistant to Dr. Joe Moxley

• ENC 3416 New Media for Technical Communication

• ENC 3250 Professional Writing

• ENC 3246 Communication for Engineers 

• ENC 2210 Technical Writing for Health Science

• ENC 1101 Composition I

• ENC 1101 Composition I: Workshop Model

• ENC 1102 Composition II

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Adjunct Professor

University of Tampa | 2014-2016

• FYW 101 Writing and Inquiry 

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AWARDS & HONORS

 

• Dorothy Linton Newman Graduate Writing Award, University of South Florida | 2016
   

• Estelle J. Zbar Award for Teaching & Academic Excellence in English, Univeristy of South Florida | 2014​

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