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Research Program

Primarily I am concerned with how class consciousness is formed, reformed, and performed. I recover the voices of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, and in so doing, I have sought to contribute to the “public turn” in rhetoric and composition by focusing on working-class subjects in social movements and community literacy programs. As labor historian James R. Barrett (2017) writes, my rhetorical historiography approaches subjects “from the bottom up and the inside out.”

For more, please read my research statement.

Teaching Philosophy

As a teacher of writing and rhetoric, I employ praxis, what critical educator Paulo Freire calls in Pedagogy of the Oppressed “ a movement back and forth between action and reflection.” This melding of theory and practice manifests in my classroom through four ideas and principles:

• classroom culture;
• critical thinking;
• self-care;
• reflection and vision.

For more, please read my teaching philosophy.

Outreach

I enjoy volunteering. I am a mentor in the Better Work program, which is part of the Georgia Center for Opportunity. For more, please read my outreach statement.