Thank you for visiting the site documenting my academic and professional work. I am an Associate Professor of English at Florida State University, with special interests in histories and theories of rhetoric, histories of composition, global rhetorics, feminist rhetorical theory, data humanities, discourse studies, and multilingualism. I teach primarily in the Editing, Writing, and Media undergraduate major and in the Rhetoric and Composition graduate program, and am a Teaching Scholar for the Honors Program. From 2013–2020, I led an interdisciplinary Digital Humanities discussion group and collaboratory. From 2015–2018, I was a faculty research fellow at the University of South Africa. From 2018–2021, I was co-director of the Demos Project for Studies in the Data Humanities at FSU and the Demos Pilot Faculty Fellows Program, and in 2021, I was pleased to be a project participant on Sarah Stanley’s recent Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the NEH. That same year, I had the opportunity to discuss some of these projects on Eric Detweiler’s wonderfully eclectic podcast, Rhetoricity.

In both teaching and research, I consider intersections of language, ethnicity, culture, and archive, and I promote an understanding of critical and historical methods that equip writers and readers for more informed civic engagement. Every few years, I work within a thematic strand at the intersection of several interests. For example, I have recently released a co-edited volume on global rhetorical traditions, and another on teaching through the archives. Currently, I am writing a manuscript at the intersection of rhetoric, historiography, data, and archives, for which I am conducting transnational research in the U.S., the U.K., and three countries in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2024, I was awarded a NEH Summer Stipend to support research for this project. Frequently, I teach students in and about archives and archival representation, and, along those lines, contributed several profiles of little-known suffragists to Tom Dublin’s and Kathryn Sklar’s Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States.

From 2013–2018, I served as a senator in the FSU chapter of United Faculties of Florida (see especially our WFSU “Labor Minute” archive). Since 2013, I have served FSU’s Faculty Senate and in 2023, I was elected to the Faculty Senate Steering Committee. Since 2016, I have been co-chairing a Special Interest Group—now the “Global & Non-Western Rhetorics” Standing Group—for the Conference on College Composition and Communication (learn more about this group on the 3/15/18 CCCC podcast, or here, starting at 26:15). From 2018–2020, I served as President of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition (learn more about this group on Charles Woods’s excellent Big Rhetorical Podcast, Ep. 41). And in 2019, I joined the CCCC’s new Wikipedia Initiative Task Force.

Please feel free to browse, or to contact me via FSU. The views indirectly or directly expressed throughout this site are my own, and do not reflect the university, department, or program.