Research
Research
“When Empathy is Not Abundant: Connecting Frequency of Subject Key Terms, Scholarship Topic Trends, and Disciplinary Values in CCC,” Under review for the Conference on College Composition and Communication Companion Publication, January 2024.
Colleen Hart, "Pedagogical Empathy as Instructor Self-Care." Under review, October 2023.
Chair and presenter, panel title: "Critiquing Sustainability of DEI Initiatives: Investigating the Rhetorical Impacts of the Graduate Student WPAs’ and Graduate Instructors’ Work;" individual title: "Sustaining gWPA Work: A Local Context for DEI Initiatives in Writing Program Administration" at Rhetoric Society of America's 2024 Conference, May 2024
“Mapping Women’s Community: Harnessing Writing Groups to Support Women Graduate Student’s Research and Professionalization” at Feminist Rhetoric (de)conference, September 30-October 3, 2023
“on celebration & compliance, reflection & resistance,” a virtual conference, Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Conference, June 7-9, 2023
Rhetoric Society of America’s Summer Institute seminar “The Future is Feminist/Rhetoric,” May 22-25, 2023
Sixth Biennial Rhetoric Society of America’s 2022 Conference, May 26-29, 2022
“Political Practices of Empathy: Analyzing the Visual Rhetoric of Senator Elizabeth Warren and Vice President Kamala Harris” at the Sixth Biennial Rhetoric Society of America’s 2022 Research Network Forum, May 26, 2022
MLA Virtual Summit: The Future of Doctoral Education, November 2020
"Repurposing urban blight: A feminist and queer approach to revitalizing spaces through art" co-presented with Maria Tsangarakis at the UW Madison RSA Student Chapter Spring Symposium on April 12, 2024
“Building Empathetic Course Policies: Exploring Syllabus Policies through Feminist and Disability Studies Lenses” at Teaching of Writing Conference at Wayne State University, March 24, 2023
“Empathy as Pedagogical Self-Care in the Writing Classroom” at Michigan Council of Teachers of English conference, October 13, 2023
“Concretizing Empathetic Practice as Hope in Writing Students Focus Groups” at Michigan College English Association conference, October 7, 2023
“Opportunities for Empathy on the Big Screen: Rhetorically Analyzing the Public Response to the Live-Action The Little Mermaid” at Wayne State University’s Pop Culture Conference, September 29, 2023
“Postmodern Perceptions of Nostalgia in World War II Films: Narrative and Violence in Saving Private Ryan (1998) and Dunkirk (2018)” at Wayne State University’s Visual Culture Conference; February 25, 2020
“Displaying the Dead in Popular Culture: Modern Zombies and Renaissance Grotesque Violence” at Calvin College’s Medieval and Renaissance Consortium, April 8, 2017
"Displaying the Dead in Popular Culture: Modern Zombies and Renaissance Grotesque Violence” at Wayne State University’s Rushton Conference, March 31, 2017
Recipient of the King Chavez-Parks Future Faculty Fellowship, State of Michigan; AY 2021-22, AY 2023-24
Recipient of the Miriam H. Berger Endowed Scholarship, Wayne State University; 2023-24 AY
Recipient of Graduate Student Travel Funding Award, Wayne State University Humanities Center; May 2023
Recipient of Paul and Barbara Couture Scholarship, Wayne State University English Department; March 2023
Recipient of Graduate Student Travel Funding Award, Wayne State University Graduate School; February 2023
Recipient of Graduate Student Travel Funding Award, Wayne State University English Department; February 2023
Recipient of Graduate Student Travel Funding Award, Wayne State University English Department; February 2022
Recipient of degree funding including tuition and stipend, Wayne State University English Department; AY 2020-21, AY 2021-22, AY 2022-23, AY 2023-24
"The Rhetorical Focus Group Situation: Diversity, Structural Racism, and Identity according to Students, Instructor-Researchers, and University Messaging,” co-authored with Anna Lindner and Adrienne Jankens, prepared for submission at the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2023
Composition Research Committee---assessment of co-requisite writing courses, 2023; second project: prompting first-year writing students' metacognition, 2023
Preparing edited collection Teaching of Writing: Rhetoric Outside the Lines, 2024
Antiracist Language and Literacy Practices research group---student and instructor linguistic mapping project, 2024
Conference proposal reviewer for Just Rhetoric: 21st Biennial Conference of the Rehtoric Society of America (2024); Rhetoric Society of America
Conference proposal reviewer for Feminisms and Rhetorics Deconference (2023); Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition
Book reviewer for Peitho, (2023-present); Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition
Rhetoric Society of America
Association of Teachers of Technical Communication
Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition