Welcome to my online CV!

My work utilizes visual rhetoric and rhetorics of shock to help students build generative habits of mind. These habits help students adapt to difficult reading experiences and produce more nuanced writing. 

EDUCATION

2014-2019

Indiana University Bloomington

PhD in ENGLISH

Dissertation in Composition/Rhetoric

"Productive Discomfort, Reading, and Writing in FYC"

Minor in Pedagogy

2012-2014

SUNY Buffalo

MA in ENGLISH

MA Thesis: "Electroshock Therapy and Cold War Literature: Physiological and Narrative Therapies and Their Roles in Exploring Sanity"

2009-2012

Siena College

BA in ENGLISH LITERATURE

Minor in Writing and Communication

Honors Thesis: "Flannery O'Connor: The Other and Terror in The Complete Stories"

COURSES TAUGHT

Digital Publications

Textshop Experiments Link:

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Multimodal Work

Selected Presentations

2018

CWPA​

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Rhetoric Society of America

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CCCC

2019

CCCC

“First-Year Composition and the Difficulty of ‘Safe Spaces’ in the #MeToo Era”

"Cinematic Creation in FYC: Using Multimodal Composition to Further Analysis in Writing

“On Wednesdays we wear pussy hats”: Contemporary Fashion & 

Protest

"Shock and Awe: Rhetorical Utilization of Affective Moments in WPA Work"

“Cultivation of Next-Generation Teachers and Learners in Writing and Composition Studies”

“‘Clothes Encounters’: Fashion as Meaning-Making in FYC”

“Instructors, ‘Make it work!’: The Rhetoric of Clothing as Meaning-Making in FYC”

2017

Computers and Writing

IU GSAC Conference

2016

CCCC

Research Network Forum, “Shocking the ‘Tired Reader’: the Grotesque as a Teaching Tool in the Composition Classroom”