Megan Keaton

Megan Keaton (she/her) is an Associate Teaching Professor in the WRDS department and the Associate Director of the Writing Resources Center. She has been in the field of Rhetoric and Composition with an interest in digital composition since 2010 and has taught first-year writing and upper level writing and rhetoric courses at four institutions. She has been a part of writing center administration since 2015, with a hand in running and creating centers at Florida State University and Pfeiffer University before coming to UNC Charlotte.

In her current research, Megan is looking into how administrators and instructors can help students learn to use AI ethically, effectively, and creatively in classrooms and in the writing center. She is also exploring the effects AI may have on students’ critical reading skills.

Education

Ph.D in English – Composition and Rhetoric Concentration, Florida State University, 2017 

M.A. in English – Composition and Rhetoric Concentration, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2012

Publications

Keaton, Megan. “A Sudden Overload: Balancing the Ethics of WC Administration and Student Labor.” Storying Writing Center Labor for Anti-Capitalist Futures. WAC Clearing House: 2024. https://wac.colostate.edu/docs/books/storying/chapter23.pdf 

Keaton, Megan, Ashley Schoppe, and Daisha Oliver. “Helping Undergraduate Tutors Conduct and Disseminate Research: A Practical Guide for Writing Center Administrators.” Praxis: A Writing Center Journal. vol. 20, issue 1, 2022. https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/2ccf8292-0383-4c70-8882-3e7231d8e8fb/content 

Enoch, Jennifer, Megan Keaton, Ellen Cecil-Lemkin, and Travis Maynard. “Archival Internships as Techne: Teaching the Archive through the Museum of Everyday Writing’s Undergraduate Internship.” Teaching through the Archives: Text, Collaboration, and Activism. Eds. Tarez Graban and Wendy Hayden. SIUP, 2022: 107-120. 

Keaton, Megan. “From Writing Lab to Writing Center: The Pfeiffer University Writing Center.” Southern Discourse in the Center, vol. 25, issue 1, Fall 2021.

Keaton, Megan. “Beyond the Alphabetic: William Blake’s ‘The Tyger’ as a Way to Teach Modal Affordances.” The CEA Forum, vol. 44, issue 2, Summer/Fall 2015: 92-121. https://journals.tdl.org/ceaforum/index.php/ceaforum/article/view/7070/6168  

Institutional Presentations

“What If?…Writing Studies Pathways and Possibilities for an Ethical AI Future.” with Cat Mahaffey, Jessi Morton, and Justin Cary. CHESS AI Week. 23 OCt. 2025.