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Education Ph.D. in English, University of Florida Areas of Interest Comics Studies Multimodal Pedagogy Media Studies Digital Studies Current Projects Comics Are for Everyone: The Transformation of the Comics Audience (in preparation) Publications and Projects Between Pen and Pixel: Comics, Materiality, and the Book of the Future (Ohio State University Press, 2018) Courses Taught UWRT […]

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Education Ph.D. English, UNC Greensboro (in-progress) M.A. English UNC Charlotte B.A. English Concord University Professional Appointments UNC Charlotte, Graduate Teaching Assistant (2013-2015), Part-Time Lecturer (2015-2021), Visiting Lecturer (2022-present) Central Piedmont Community College, Part-Time Lecturer (2016), Assistant Professor (2017-2021) Areas of Interest Rhetoric and Composition Film Studies American Literature after 1900 British and Anglophone Literature after […]

Education Certificate in Technical Communication, UNC Charlotte M.A., Northeastern Illinois University, Reading B.A., Northeastern Illinois University, English Areas of Interest Visual Argument Visual Rhetoric & Design Technical Communication Tennis Swimming Reading Traveling Gardening Cycling Courses Taught First-Year Writing (UWRT 1103/1104): Writing and Inquiry in Academic Contexts I and II ENGL 2116 Introduction to Technical Communication

Education Ph.D. Loyola University Chicago M.A. Northwestern University B.A. University of Wisconsin Whitewater My long practice and research in writing across the curriculum (WAC) and writing centers not only provided the foundation for publications interrogating writing in a variety of disciplines and cultures, but also gave me the opportunity to study ways in which writing […]

Education Post-Graduate Study, English Literature and Language, University of South Carolina Post-Graduate Study, English, University of Southern Mississippi MLIS, University of Southern Mississippi B.A., English, University of Southern Mississippi Areas of Interest Community Writing Service Learning Poverty Studies Rhetoric of Comedy/Humor Studies Participatory Action Research Selected Publications “Powerful Partnerships:  The Worth of Embedding Masters Level […]

Education M.F.A. Purdue University B.A. College of Charleston Areas of Interest Creative Writing Contemporary American Poetry American Literature Rhetoric and Composition Publications Book (Poetry) One Island. Anhinga Press, 2011.  Anhinga Prize for Poetry (2009) Poems in Anthologies “Beneath September.” Crossing the Rift: North Carolina Poets on 9/11 & Its Aftermath, Edited by Joseph Bathanti & […]

Website Education M.A. University of Kentucky M.F.A. University of North Carolina at Greensboro B.A. University of North Carolina at Greensboro Areas of Interest Creative writing, poetry, and non-fiction Rhetoric and composition American literature, especially Southern and Appalachian Writing in collaboration with other art forms Selected Publications and Presentations Books (Poetry): Blue Star. Winston-Salem: Press 53, […]

Full Profile Education M.A. UNC Charlotte B.A. UNC Charlotte Areas of Interest Rhetoric and Composition Children’s Literature Technical Writing Courses Taught First-Year Writing (UWRT 1103/1104): Writing and Inquiry in Academic Contexts I and II

Full Profile Education Ph.D. Georgia State University M.A. University of North Carolina at Charlotte B. A. University of North Carolina at Charlotte Areas of Interest Trauma-Informed Pedagogies Anti-Racist Writing Assessment Writing About Writing Translingual Pedagogies Independent Writing Departments and Programs Selected Publications and Presentations Barb Bird, Doug Downs, I. Moriah McCracken, and Jan Rieman, eds., […]