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Faculty Publications

​​​​​​From presenting at international conferences to publishing in world-renowned academic journals, WRD faculty represent active scholars and researchers in a broad range of fields related to rhetoric and composition. Explore some of the recent publications by WRD faculty.

 
Julie Bokser

Julie Bokser

 
Lisa Dush

Lisa Dush

 
Timothy Elliott

Timothy Elliott

Professor Tim Elliott published “Complex Personal Stories, Neighborhood Knowledge, and Dominant Cultural Narratives” (2020) in Technical Communication Quarterly.

Professor Elliott also co-authored “The High Cotton Project: A Community-Based Method for Serving the Urban Homeless” (2021) with architect David A. Driskill, which was published in The Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education.

Professor Elliott’s most cited work is “From Participatory Design to a Listening Infrastructure: A Case of Urban Planning and Participation” (2016) co-authored with Kristen R. Moore (University of Buffalo) and published in the Journal of Business and Technical Communication.

 

 
Jason Kalin

Jason Kalin

 
Maria Prikhodko

Maria Prikhodko

  • Professor Maria Prikhodko wrote a book chapter, “Rhizomes in Action: International Multilingual Student Writers’ Literacies,” for the 2019 edited book Re-Conceptualizing Connections Between Language, Learning, and Literacy. The chapter shares how two international multilingual student writers (re)negotiated their literacies through first-year writing in the US.

  • Professor Prikhodko’s forthcoming chapter “The Rhetoric of Nurturing in the Multilingual Writing Class Rooted in the Eloquent Tradition of Kievan Rus” will appear in the upcoming edited collection Alternative Sources for Rhetorical Traditions. Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press. Book chapter submitted for publication.

 
Monica Reyes

Monica Reyes

  • Professor Monica Reyes is working with La Posada Providencia, an emergency shelter in San Benito, Texas, to publish a piece titled "Enacting Invitational Rhetorics: Leveraging Networks of Care in the U.S. Asylum Process." She is anticipating publication in Grassroots Activisms in 2021.
  • In 2020, Professor Reyes published the article “Accounts of Asylum: A Call Toward Transnational Literacies of Displacement" in the journal, Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing & Culture

  • In 2019, Professor Reyes published two essays: the first was “Sins of Omission: 'Unpacking' the Rhetoric of Sexuality within Nineteenth-Century American Mothers' Travel-Diaries" in the anthology, Travellin' Mama: Mothers, Mothering and Travel from Demeter Press; and the other was "Rape & Survival within Counter-geographies: (Dis)Pleasure in Disrupting Globalized Universals" in the international journal, Postcolonial Text.

  • In Watchung Review: The Journal of the New Jersey College English Association's 2017 special issue on “Migration and Identity, Professor Reyes published her article, “The Un-Hero and the American West: Re-examining the Male/ Female Binary of Nineteenth Century Travel Diaries.

  • In the same year, Professor Reyes co-authored a piece with her brother Andy Najera while he was a graduate History student; the article, “Putting the Pieces Together: The Rhetoric of Oral Tradition in Early 20th Century Rio Grande Valley" was published in the anthology Supplemental Studies in Rio Grande Valley History.

 
Lydia Saravia

Lydia Saravia

 
Jason Schneider

Jason Schneider

  • This year, Dr. Schnieder authored a publication in TESOL Quarterly in August. This article draws on qualitative research with multilingual college writers to explore how some of their strategic approaches to writing overlap with efforts to negotiate new identities. In 2020, Dr. Schnieder co-authored a publication with DePaul professor Li Jin that was published in Journal of Language, Identity and Education. It was part of an ongoing research effort, where Schnieder and Li also published in the Journal of International Students last year. Professor Schnieder had two other works published in 2019, one in Philosophy and Rhetoric and one in the TESOL journal. In 2018, professor Schnieder published two works addressing international students and multilingual education.
 
Erin Workman

Erin Workman

  • Professor Erin Workman Collaborated with Peter Vandenberg and former WRD Graduate Assistant Maddy Crozier to write “Drafting Pandemic Policy: Writing and sudden Institutional Change”, scheduled to be published in 2021 in Journal of Business and Technical Communication.
  • Professor Erin Workman co-authored an article with Kathleen Blake Yancey, Matthew Davis, Liane Robertson, and Kara Taczak titled “The Teaching for Transfer Curriculum: The Role of Concurrent Transfer and Inside-and-Outside School Contexts in Supporting Students’ Writing Development.” The article appeared in the December 2019 issue of College Composition and Communication.

  • Professor Workman co-authored another article with the same authors titled “Writing Across College: Key Terms and Multiple Contexts As Factors Promoting Students’ Transfer of Writing Knowledge and Practice.” The article appeared in the WAC Journal in 2018.