B.A., English Literature, Agnes Scott College
M.A., Literary Studies, UW-Madison
Ph.D., Composition and Rhetoric, UW-Madison

I mostly teach first year writing, especially our research class B Writ 135. I also teach courses in our Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies program. In my classes, we research, critique, and write about access in higher education. Through writing and interactive classroom practices, we interrogate how we got to college, how to thrive, why we’re here, and how to change higher education for the better.

My current projects use qualitative interviews to explore how students with disabilities navigate higher education. I describe how students learn and transfer knowledge about access and accommodations across college classrooms, particularly as they relate to college writing. I contrast the impact of set timeframes like quarters and deadlines with the unique experiences of time inherent in disabled embodiment. I consider the emotional labor disabled students do when communicating with faculty and fellow students about their disability. I also grapple with how disabled students resist, take up, and use disability identity rhetorically.