To the Discipline

21st Century Englishes

From Winter 2017 to Winter 2018, I served as co-chair to the Midwest graduate student conference, 21st Century Englishes, leading it through the sixth annual conference. Historically, the conference has been hosted by the Rhetoric Society of the Black Swamp, a student Chapter of the Rhetoric Society of America.

We developed a call for papers and theme, Culture, Community, and Change, which requested speakers to reflect upon how, “Culture, community, and change touch our lives within the academy and outside it. Home and academic cultures and communities interact in sometimes surprising ways, and inevitably change each other through contact, relationships, and research. In composition studies ‘community,’ ‘culture,’ and ‘change’ are, as Paul Prior articulates in Keywords in Writing Studies: ‘terms that have variously been critiqued, refined, and taken as givens’ but that are often only vaguely defined. As graduate students we are constantly existing in and moving between communities that influence the way we write, teach, and research, but we do not always actively engage with those communities or refer to them in our work.”

While our conference succeeded in presenting research from dozens and across multiple universities and states, I believe the year especially memorable for starting a tradition of hosting an open forum for writing teachers from all levels: intermediate, middle, high school, and university.

For information on the current status of the conference and the 2019 CFP/Presentations, consult the conference website or the 21st Century Englishes Facebook page.

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Me, in a workshop during the most recent 21st Century Englishes Conference

ADA

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Myself (second from left) and other members of the publishing team.

I currently serve as a member of the Digital Publishing Team for Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, under editor Dr. Radhika Gajjala. Our responsibilities include copy editing and helping coordinate the launch through our new platform, Manifold. I work in both copy editing and digital software. We’re currently working on Issue 16, in progress as of November 2019.

For more information on Ada, consult the journal’s website. For more information on the Digital Publishing Team, consider reading our news coverage at Bowling Green State University. 

Research Projects

I am committed to aiding the development and research of my peers, through both acting as a co-researcher or a participant in their work. Recent projects I’ve been involved in as a subject or co-researcher include:

  • Interview Participant for Dr. Amy E. Robillard’s “The Misogyny Project,” 2019.
  • Interview Participant and Co-Researcher for Dr. Kelly Moreland’s dissertation, “Rhetorical Embodied Performance in/as Writing Instruction: Practicing Identity and Lived Experience in TA Education,” 2018.
  • Interview Participant and Co-Researcher for Dr. Sara Austin’s dissertation, “Teaching for Transfer as Feminist Pedagogy: An Institutional Ethnography of First Year Writing Instructors at Bowling Green State University,” 2018.