Awards
Graduate College Teaching Excellence Award. Spring 2019. Iowa State University.
EnglQueer Outreach Award. Spring 2019. Service award for work with/for LGBT+
student community. Awarded for redesigning first year composition curriculum for
inclusion, and for designing online resources for instructors to help trans students.
W. Paul Jones Scholarship. Spring 2019. Research award for excellence in rhetoric
and professional communication. Awarded for research paper on Black American
rhetoric and Twitter discourse.
Robert A. Miller CEA Memorial Prize for Best Article in the CEA Critic. Spring 2019.
Conference Presentations
“Innovation and Gamification: A Workshop on Designing Game Courses,” Association for Business Communication Conference, October 2019.
“Game Jamming in the Classroom,” National Pop & American Culture Association Conference, April, 2019. Session chair.
“Reprogramming the Composition Network: How ePortfolios Enable and Empower Change,” NCTE CCCC, March 2018.
“Finding the Fantastic: Lessons Learned in a Year of Fairytale Podcasting,” Southwest Pop & American Culture Association, February 2018.
“Black Girl Podcasting: Platforms, Pop Culture, and African-American Rhetoric,”
Communication and Media Studies Conference, November 2017.
“Expanding the Classroom Landscape: Designing Business Communication Courses as Games,” International Association for Business Communication Conference, October 2017.
“Developing Interactive Pedagogical Tools in the Age of Austerity,” Council of Writing Program Administrators, July 2017.
“Writing Program Administration and Campus Inclusion: Perceptions and Possibilities,” Council of Writing Program Administrators, July 2017.
“Building Good Robots,” Computers and Writing Conference, June 2017.
“Technology and Simulations in Advanced Composition,” National Pop & American Culture Association Conference, April 2017.
“Visualizing Inclusion: A Study of College Admissions Viewbooks,” Guiding the Way to Inclusion Conference, July 2016.
“Exploring Corporate Twitter Controversies,” Southwest Pop & American Culture Association, February 2016.