Rhetoric

Film

New Media

Theory

Education

• Ph.D. in Rhetoric, Indiana University
• B.A. in English, Beloit College

Research Interests

Caddie Alford specializes in digital rhetoric, critical AI, media studies, rhetorical and political theory, and innovative writing pedagogies. Alongside Dr. Jennifer Rhee, she’s co-lead of the AI Futures Hub, which is a community for critical humanities orientations toward AI. She serves as Associate Co-Editor of Special Issues for Rhetoric Society Quarterly. She’s the author of Entitled Opinions: Doxa After Digitality (Alabama 2024), co-editor of the forthcoming collection Rhetoric Before and Beyond Post-Truth (Pittsburgh 2026), and she’s currently working on a co-authored book about how rhetoric can help diagnose and rectify technofascism. 

Her research can broadly be described as timely inquiries into the power that Big Tech wields and how that power changes culture, information, sociality, and democratic civic discourse. 

• Rhetorical theory
• Digital rhetoric
• Critical AI
• Mis/Dis/Mal Information
• Disability studies
• Writing pedagogies
• Feminisms

Select Publications

Peer-Reviewed Manuscripts

• Entitled Opinions: Doxa After Digitality. The University of Alabama Press’ new “Rhetoric + Digitality” series, 2024.
• Rhetoric Before and Beyond “Post-Truth.” Co-edited with Ira Allen and Scott Sundvall. Under contract with University of Pittsburgh Press. Forthcoming 2026.
• “The Paradigmatic Aftermath of Digital Rhetoric.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 2025.
• "Witnessing Corecore as an Epideictic Call to Care." b2o: an online journal, 2025.
• “A Cesspool of Toxicity, Hatred, and Discrimination”: Twitter, Free Speech Absolutism, and Adoxastic Enshittification.” Co-authored with Jonathan Carter. Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric, 2025.

Graduate Program Affiliations

• Affiliate Faculty, Media, Art, and Text Ph.D. Program

Professional Affiliations

• Association of Internet Researchers
• Rhetoric Society of Europe
• Modern Language Association
• Rhetoric Society of America
• Society for the Study of Affect

Courses

• Digital Rhetoric
• Professional Writing
• Food Writing
• Critical Higher Education Studies
• Reading Film

Links

• https://www.instagram.com/dr_caddie_alford/
• https://disjunctionsmag.com/articles/ai-candy-house/
• https://upittpress.org/books/9780822968177/
• https://www.uapress.ua.edu/9780817361419/entitled-opinions/
• https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/176-dr-caddie-alford-keystone-perspectives/id1476496174?i=1000698928336&l=ko