My research draws upon classical and contemporary materialist rhetoric to explore the distributed presence of digital technology in the production of meaning. From this locus, I produce work addressing rhetoric practice, theory, and history. My current active research projects are:
The Rhetorical Taskscape of Readability Surveys on Amazon Mechanical Turk / Enculturation: Intermezzo (2022) Abstract | Text |
A Body of Texts: Memento and Mētis / Screen Bodies 6.1 (2021) Abstract | Journal link |
Tracing the Human in Amazon Mechanical Turk through Rhetorical Text Mining / Enculturation: Intermezzo (2020) Abstract | Text |
Crossing Boundaries and Redefining Roles: Humanists as Academic Entrepreneurs / The American Journal of Entrepreneurship 9.2 (2016) Abstract | Journal link |
A Study of a Federally Funded Project between Higher-Ed Institutions in the U.S. and Pakistan: An Intercultural Academic Project Management / The International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development 7.2 (2015) Abstract | Journal link |
The Bloodsucking Brady Bunch: The Lost Boys and the Single-Parent Family / Supernatural Studies 1.1 (2013) Abstract | Journal link |
A Geographical History of Online Rhetoric and Composition Journals / Kairos 16.3 (2012) Abstract | Text |
Productive Strife: Andy Clark’s Cognitive Science and Rhetorical Agonism / Janus Head 12.1 (2011) Abstract | Text |
Latourian Memoria / Thinking with Bruno Latour in Rhetoric and Composition (2015) Abstract | Book link |
Meeting Community Needs through Service-Learning in the Online Classroom / Adding to the Conversation on Service-Learning in Composition (2013) Abstract | Book link |
Bleeding Through, or We Are Living in a Digital World and I Am an Analog Girl / The Scary Screen (2010) Abstract | Book link |
Following Mechanical Turks / (2019–present) Abstract | Project link |
Mapping Digital Technology in Rhetoric and Composition History / (2009–present) Abstract | Project link |
Ticks, Pigs, and the Consumed Capitalist Body / Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine NCA Preconference (2023) Abstract | Slides | Notes | Manuscript |
Impossible Flesh: The Gothic Rhetoric of Lab-grown Meat / UNCW English Department Works-in-Progress Series (2022) Abstract | Slides | Notes | Video |
Ethical Scholarly Production through Open Digital Collaboration / Computers and Writing Conference (2019) Abstract | Slides | Notes | Video |
Soylent and Juicero: Conspicuous and Invisible Consumption / Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference (2017) Abstract | Slides | Notes | Video |
Programmatic and Pedagogical Innovations in Professional Writing / Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication Conference (2017) Abstract | Slides | Notes |
Negotiating Cultural Challenges and Revisioning Academic Entrepreneurship at a Public Regional Comprehensive University in North Carolina / IEEE ProComm (2016) Abstract | Slides | Notes |
Playing with Our Selves: Bodily Agents in Video Gaming / Rhetoric Society of America Conference (2016) Abstract | Slides with notes | Video |
Mechanical Turks in the Era of Technoilliteracy / Computers and Writing Conference (2015) Abstract | Slides | Notes | Video |
Visually Communicating Programmatic Value / Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Conference (2015) Abstract | Poster | Videos |
Pedagogical Strategies for Local Data Mapping / Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Conference (2014) Abstract | Slides | Notes |
A Defense of Digital Waste / Computers and Writing Conference (2013) Abstract | Slides | Notes |
Using Video Games for Writing Education / North Carolina English Teachers’ Association Conference (2013) Abstract | Slides | Notes |
Incorporating the Physical Environment into New Media Design Pedagogy / Computers and Writing Conference (2012) Abstract | Slides | Notes |
Dumb People, Smart Objects: The Sims and the Distributed Self / International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games (2012) Abstract | Slides | Notes | Video | Manuscript |
"I’ve Crammed My Head Full of Garbage!": Waste, Forgetting, and Anti-Memoria in Digital Culture / Conference on College Composition and Communication (2011) Abstract | Slides | Notes |
Space’s Time is Now / Computers and Writing Conference (2011) Abstract | Slides | Notes |
Digital Mapping in Computers and Writing Research / Computers and Writing Conference (2010) Abstract | Notes | Video |
Decorum and Emergent Situational Ethics / Conference on College Composition and Communication (2009) Abstract | Slides | Notes |
Writing Local Reality: Katrina and the Digital Emergence of New Orleans / Conference on College Composition and Communication (2008) Abstract | Slides | Notes |
Using Web 2.0 Consumer Voices in the Online Classroom / Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Conference (2008) Abstract | Slides | Notes |
Productive Strife: Andy Clark’s Cognitive Science and Rhetorical Agonism / Humanities and Neuroscience Conference (2007) Abstract | Slides | Handout |
Eddies in the River: Kairos and Complexity / Conference on College Composition and Communication (2007) Abstract | Slides | Manuscript |
A Body of Texts: Memento and Mētis / Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (2006) Abstract | Slides | Video |
Sexuality, the Con, and Southern Identity in Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs / American Literature Association Conference (2005) Abstract | Notes | Manuscript |
Reflecting Hybrid Pedagogy Through Multiple Classroom Structures / Conference on College Composition and Communication Research Network Forum (2005) Abstract | Manuscript |
Challenging the Word Processor Model of Digital Composition / Conference of College Teachers of English (2003) Abstract | Manuscript |
Free Software Reviews / Computers and Composition Online (2009) Abstract | Text |
Using Drupal in an Academic Environment / Kairos Praxis Wiki (2007) Abstract | Text |
Student Wikipedia Contributions in Introductory Composition / ICaP News Online (2006) Abstract | Text |
Mapping A Geographical History of Digital Technology in Rhetoric and Composition / Ph. D. dissertation (2009) Abstract | Text |
A Hypothetical Writing Tool Better Suited to Long Composition than the Word Processor / MA thesis (2004) Abstract | Text |
Aristotle's Complex Self: A Response to Fukuyama's Our Posthuman Future Abstract | Manuscript |
Magical Rhetoric as a Political and Social Force in Classical Athens Abstract | Manuscript |