research précis
research & scholarship statement
My research demonstrates a commitment to focused interdisciplinary engagement across digital rhetorics, cultural rhetorics, composition pedagogy, and administration. Specifically, I am interested in how identity and representation play out through digital and cultural rhetorics. In particular, I am interested in storytelling—in the ways in which visual, oral, aural, alphabetic, and digital "texts" are composed through/with multimodal means of production along with the social, political, historical, and cultural contexts in which they are created.
In my interdisciplinary approach to storytelling, I extend Humanities scholar John D. Niles' (1999) discussion of poetry to consider the act or performance of storytelling in any medium to be a "social transaction" in which are expressed communal values and group as well as individual identity (p. 19).
My research projects all relate to storytelling as an embodied rhetoric and involve different institutional venues. My work in research, administration, teaching and service all provide synergistic impetus for examining storytelling in different settings. I continue to produce scholarship in digital rhetorics, cultural rhetorics, and in composition pedagogy writ large, incorporating my work as a writing program administrator. I also continue to present my research at conferences, taking advantage of these opportunities as a means for both developing and extending manuscripts.
