Research

My research explores present-day literacy practices and the ways in which institutional, economic, social history, and systems shape academia. As a WPA, I explore how WPAs and writing programs navigate, respond to, and resist systems. In the classroom, I study how slow pedagogy supports students’ knowledge transfer, mental health, and writing processes.

A sample of my research projects:

• Systems Shift: Creating and Navigating Change in Rhetoric and Composition Administration, co-edited with Aurora Matzke

• Class in the Composition Classroom: Pedagogy and the Working Class, co-edited with Bill Thelin

• Exploring the Diversity of Everyday Experiences through the Humans of the University of Wisconsin-Stout Facebook Assignment

• Facebook Pedagogy: Humans of UW-Stout, Digital Literacies, and Diversity

What excites me about research is the problem-solving: I like asking questions about what isn’t working as well as it could and what we might do about it, as WPAs, teachers, and community members.