As an interdisciplinary scholar, my research discerns the material-digital-discursive implications and possibilities of working on and against institutionalized technologies of power that have historically marginalized communities outside the white cis-male heterosexual able-bodiminded western norm. I am interested in formal and informal spaces of rhetorical education that emphasize how communities learn to invent and enact culturally complex communicative acts through digital and multimodal technologies. Methodologically, I weave queer, feminist of color, crip, and antiracist meaning-making practices with digital rhetorical theories to not only question normative assumptions built into our techno-affective infrastructures but also generate critical frameworks for worldmaking. Addressing the vastness of these curiosities requires forming what I call coalitional praxis. Through coalitional praxis I question how human and nonhuman agentive bodies use technologies (or are used by technologies) when composing collective action grounded in embodiminded histories, rhetorics, and pedagogies. Instead of “mastering” a narrow topic of expertise, my goal is to establish a clear scholarly ethic based in coalitional praxis that attends to the complexity of rhetorical education(s) within and beyond academe
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Ellen Nold Award for Outstanding Article in Computers and Composition Studies, awarded for “Driving innovation: Analyzing mobile ridesharing app interfaces and moving toward community-based user experience (CBX)” Laura L. Allen and Gavin P. Johnson, 2024.
Michelle Kendrick Award for Outstanding Digital Production/Scholarship in Computers and Composition Studies, awarded to the Advisory Board of the Digital Rhetorical Privacy Collective (DRPC), including Charles Woods, Gavin P. Johnson, Morgan Banville, Chen Chen, Cecilia Shelton, and Noah Wason, 2024.
The John Lovas Kairos Award, awarded to the Advisory Board of the Digital Rhetorical Privacy Collective (DRPC), including Charles Woods, Gavin P. Johnson, Morgan Banville, Chen Chen, Cecilia Shelton, and Noah Wason, 2024.
H.M. Lafferty Distinguished Faculty Award for Scholarship and Creative Activity, Texas A&M University-Commerce, 2024 [nominated].
Interdisciplinary Researchers of the Year, nominated with Pamela Webster, Texas A&M University-Commerce, 2023 [nominated].
CCCC Emergent Researcher Grant, awarded to the Digital Rhetorical Privacy Collective (Charles Woods, Morgan Banville, Gavin P. Johnson, Chen Chen, Cecilia Shelton, and Noah Wason), Conference on College Composition and Communication, 2023.
NCTE/CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Dissertation Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship, 2021.
Hugh Burns Best Dissertation Award in Computers and Composition Studies (Honorable Mention), 2020.
NCTE/CCCC Gloria Anzaldúa Rhetorician Award, 2017