Program Administration & Institutional Ethnography

My research in program administration (WAC/WID/WEC) focuses on how institutions define, support, and assess writing across disciplines. I use institutional ethnography and rhetorical analysis to trace the often-invisible labor behind curriculum design, policy decisions, and faculty development. This work informs my leadership with the Campus Writing and Speaking Program (CWSP) at NC State, where I co-develop writing-enriched curriculum models and faculty-facing initiatives.

Recent Work:

• Revitalizing Writing Enriched Curriculum: Leveraging Institutional Ethnography for Program Design, IWAC 2025

• Contributor to the State of Writing and Speaking at NC State strategic report

• Co-author of faculty-facing workshops and tools for programmatic writing and speaking integration

Feminist Rhetorics & Alternative Motherhood

My scholarship in feminist rhetorical studies investigates how motherhood—particularly non-normative and stepmother identities—is represented in political discourse, media, and cultural narratives. I examine how authority, care, and gender are negotiated rhetorically across contexts, and how feminist theory can inform institutional practice and leadership.

Recent Work:

• “Discursive Archetypes: Kamala Harris and Repositioning Stepmotherhood” (Peitho, under review)

• Refiguring Motherhood Beyond Biology (Routledge, 2023)

• “’Evil is Part of the Territory’: Inventing the Stepmother in Self-Help Books” (Women’s Studies in Communication)

• Invited roundtable: Reclaiming and Unlearning Motherhood, IAMAS 2024

AI and Digital Writing Pedagogies

This line of research interrogates the impact of generative AI on writing processes, authorship, assessment, and faculty labor. I examine how large language models shape rhetorical decision-making and propose ethical frameworks for their integration into pedagogy. My work emphasizes collaborative authorship, transparency, and student agency in AI-assisted writing.

Recent Work:

• Co-author, AWAC Statement on AI Writing Tools in WAC Settings (2025)

• “Writing in the Age of AI,” NC State University Research Symposium (2025)

• Conference presentations on cognitive writing models and GenAI (EARLI, CCCC, RSA)

• Co-editing faculty development tools on AI literacy and feedback practices

Multimodal Composition and Equity

Informed by both writing studies and digital media, my research in multimodal composition explores how students compose across genres, platforms, and modalities. I collaborate with colleagues across disciplines to design inclusive pedagogies that recognize linguistic diversity, digital access, and student positionality as central to writing success.

Recent Work:

• Professionalizing Multimodal Composition (USU Press, 2023) – co-authored chapter on GTA development

• Multimodal Composition in Practice – graduate course and forthcoming article (under review)

• Co-editor of Reimagining Graduate Education in Writing Studies (Routledge, 2025/26)

Books & Edited Collections (Selected)

• A Faculty Guidebook for Effective Shared Governance and Service in Higher Education (Routledge, 2023)
  A practical, research-based resource for navigating academic labor, shared decision-making, and institutional equity.

• Refiguring Motherhood Beyond Biology (Routledge, 2023)
  Explores alternative maternal identities through interdisciplinary feminist lenses, with attention to stepmotherhood, reproductive technology, and care ethics.

• Transformations: Change Work Across Writing Programs, Pedagogies, and Practices (Utah State University Press, 2021)
  Documents strategies for sustainable writing program reform and institutional change across contexts.

• Surviving Sexism in Academia: Strategies for Feminist Leadership (Routledge, 2017)
  Provides critical insights into navigating gendered academic labor and cultivating feminist leadership practices.