My research draws upon classical and contemporary materialist rhetoric to explore the distributed presence of technologies in the production of meaning. From this locus, I produce work addressing rhetoric practice, theory, and history. My current active research projects are:
| Disgustatory! A Gothic Rhetoric of Consumption (2026) Abstract | Book link |
| From Assimilation to Autonomy: Rethinking Data Sovereignty in the Age of Large Language Models / Technical Communication Quarterly (2025) Abstract | Journal link |
| Consuming Bodies: Ticks, Pigs, and Gothic Capitalism / Poroi 18.1 (2024) Abstract | Text |
| 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 |
| AI & Public Writing: Sustainable and Unsustainable Wastes / Computers and Writing Conference (2026) Abstract | Slides | Notes |
| When the Red Pill is Your Psychedelic and You’re Taking the World on Your Trip / University of Toronto Mississauga and St. George ICCIT Trip Out! Seminar (2026) Abstract | Slides |
| Disgustatory! A Gothic Rhetoric of Consumption / UNCW College of Humanities, Social Sciences, & the Arts Lecture (2024) Abstract | Slides | Video |
| Ticks, Pigs, and the Consumed Capitalist Body / Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine NCA Preconference (2023) Abstract | Slides | Notes |
| 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 | Manuscript |
| 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 |