Rhetoric

Film

New Media

Theory

Education

• PhD in Rhetoric, Indiana University
• MA in Rhetoric, Indiana University
• BA in English, Beloit College

Research Interests

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

Select Publications

• "Entitled Opinions: Doxa After Digitality." University of Alabama Press, 2024.
• "Witnessing Corecore as an Epideictic Call to Care." b2o, 2025.
• “Adoxastic Publics: Facebook and the Loss of Civic Strangeness,” co-authored with Jonathan S. Carter. The Quarterly Journal of Speech, vol. 108, no. 3, 2022.
• “Adoxa.” A New Handbook of Rhetoric: Inverting the Classical Vocabulary. Edited by Michele Kennerly. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021.
• “On Not Being Entitled to Bad Opinions.” Intermezzo. Co-authored with Shannon Roberson. November, 2021.
• “When One Door Closes, Another Opens; Or, Appreciating Clichés.” Failure Pedagogies: Learning and Unlearning What it Means to Fail. Edited by Laura Micciche and Allison Carr. Peter Lang, 2020.

Affiliations

• Association of Internet Researchers
• Rhetoric Society of Europe
• Modern Language Association
• Nordic Rhetoric Association
• Rhetoric Society of America
• National Communication Association
• International Society for the History of Rhetoric
•  American Society for the History of Rhetoric

Courses

• ENGL250: Reading Film
• ENGL350: Digital Rhetoric
• ENGL310: Professional Writing
• ENGL304: Writing About Music
• ENGL453: Modern Rhetoric