PhD. 2013, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Speech Communication.

B.A. 2006, University of Puget Sound, Communication Studies.

University of Pittsburgh English Department, 2014-21.

Northeastern University Communication Studies Department, 2013-14.

University of Illinois Department of Speech Communication, 2006-13.

“Hobby Lobby‘s Queer Antecedents (A Tale of Two RFRAs).” QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, 2016. 

“The Trans-Exclusive Archives of U.S. Capital Punishment Rhetoric” (with Cory Holding). Transgender Communication Studies (ed. Capuzza and Spencer), 2015. 

“Intersectionality Bites: Metaphors of Race and Sexuality in HBO’s True Blood.” Monster Culture in the 21st Century (ed. Levina and Bui), 2013. 

“The Procedural Queer: Substantive Due Process, Lawrence v. Texas, and Queer Rhetorical Futures.” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2012. 

“Critical Trans Solidarity” (with Amy Livingston). Review of Normal Life by Dean Spade. WSQ, 2014.

Ford Foundation Grant for National Conference on Higher Education in Prison, 2015.

Northeastern University Friend of the Communication Studies Department, 2014.

University of Illinois Karl R. Wallace Distinguished Graduate Scholar, 2013. 

University of Illinois College of LAS Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in Gender and Women’s Studies, 2013.

University of Illinois Graduate College INTERSECT Fellow, 2012. 

University of Illinois Smalley Graduate Research Fellow in Gender and Women’s Studies, 2012.

English Literature 2549: Rhetorical Methods in Composition Studies (new graduate core)

English Literature 2543: Activist Writing & Radical Rhetoric 

English Literature 2993: Introduction to Graduate Studies (new practicum)

English Literature 3507: Queer Inscriptions 

Ariana Brown, “everything we are owed,” poetry, 2019. We Are Owed (Grieveland, 2021). Ariana Brown Teaching & Consulting, LLC.  

Stephanie Cawley, “My Heart But Not My Heart,” poetry, 2017. My Heart But Not My Heart (Slope Editions, 2020), 19th Annual Book Prize. A Wilderness (Gazing Grain Press, 2018), All-Genre Chapbook Contest Winner. No More Flowers (Birds, 2024). 2023 NEA Fellow. 

Kimberly Strayer Grabowski, “A Dead Girl is Not Sleeping,” poetry, 2017. 

Eowyn Randall, “Nameless Destinations,” fiction, 2018. Sales Assistant, Penguin Random House.

Rachel Sterling, “Deadly Sins,” fiction, 2017.  

*chair or co-chair

*LeTriece Calhoun, “In Her Words” (qualifying project committee), 2021. Teaching Assistant Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh.

Sarah Hakimzadeh, “Reclaiming the Commons: Law, Rhetoric, and C.S. Peirce’s Pragmatic Philosophy,” 2019. Postdoctoral Associate, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences.

Samuel Z. Hamilton, “Representations of Self Culture: Sampling Digital Literacies and American Citizenship,” 2017. Associate Professor of English, Bridgewater College. 

*Alexander Malanych, “Awesomely, Wondrously Made: Figurative Jews, Literal Liturgy, and Performing Queers” (MA), 2019. Rabbi, Chaplain, Hillel Director, and Assistant Director of Religious and Spiritual Life, Lafayette College. 

Nic Marsellas, “Practically Queer,” 2021. Teaching Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh.

Avey Nelson, “Computers Can’t Get Wet: Queer Slippage and Play in the Rhetoric of Computational Structures,” 2020. Assistant Professor of English, University of Sussex. 

Andrea Paolini, “Human Rights Writing: Activist Composition in a Global World,” 2024. Writing Instructor, Grand Valley State University; Board of Directors, Tumaini Lettu.  

Celena Todora, “Liberatory Education in Anti-Liberatory Spaces: Rhetorics of Freedom in Prison Abolition,” 2021. Humanities Engage 2021 Immersive Dissertation Research Fellowship.  

University of Pittsburgh 

English Composition 200: Honors Seminar in Composition

English Composition 410: Writing in the Legal Professions.

English Composition 420: Writing for the Public 

English Composition 500 (Pitt in London): Travel Writing.

English Composition 560: Writing Arguments.

English Composition 641: Writing for Change.

English Literature 1199 (Pitt in London): London Across History, Literature, & Film

Northeastern University 

Communication 1112: Public Speaking.

Communication 1210: Persuasion and Rhetoric. 

Communication 3331: Argumentation and Debate.  

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

Gender and Women’s Studies 100: Introduction to Gender and Women’s Studies.

Speech Communication 111/112: Oral and Written Communication I & II.

Communication 220: Communicating Public Policy. 

Communication 323: Argumentation: Theory and Practice.

Communication 375: Popular Media and Culture. 

Communication 377: Public Relations and Propaganda.

Communication 396: Sexuality in U.S. Public Culture.

NCA Critical/Cultural Studies Division Scholar Activist Award Committee, 2020. 

Argumentation & Advocacy Editorial Board, 2017-21.

The Popular Culture Studies Journal, vol. 6, no. 2-3, “Monstrosity” Editorial Board, 2018.

Workshop leader (“Doing Law and Rhetoric,” with Anjali Vats), RSA Summer Institute, 2017. 

NCA Legislative Assembly, 2016-17. 

NCA Communication & Law Division officer and division planner, 2015-17.

Co-Director, Fifth National Conference on Higher Education in Prison, 2014-15.

Reviewer for Quarterly Journal of Speech; enculturation; Communication & Critical/Cultural Studies; QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking; Southern Communication Journal; Critical Studies in Media Communication. 

University of Pittsburgh 

Graduate Procedures Committee, 2015-17 & 2019.

Composition Program Faculty Search Committees, 2014-21.

Associate Director of Graduate Studies, 2015-17.

Graduate Admissions Committee, 2014-17.

Iris Marion Young Awards Selection Committee, 2014-21. 

Northeastern University 

Organizing Committee, “From Patriarchy to Pussy Riot: Symposium on Gender, Sexuality, and Global Citizenship,” Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, 2014.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Organizing Committee, “(Dis)locating Queer” Graduate Symposium, 2011.

Gender and Women’s Studies Curriculum Committee, 2011-12.

Volunteer Coach, Illinois Policy Debate Team, 2007-08.