Publications
“The Trouble With ‘Ungrading’: Toward Disciplinary Specificity in Alternative Writing Assessment.” Journal of Writing Assessment, vol. 18, issue 1, 2025. Co-authored with Maggie Fernandes and Megan McIntyre.
“We’re All Still Grading: A Call for Honesty in Writing Assessment Discourse.” Composition Studies, vol. 51, issue 2, 2023. Co-authored with Maggie Fernandes and Megan McIntyre.
“Pandemic Pedagogy: Practical and Empathetic Teaching Practices.” The Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Theory Archives (SPECTRA), 2021.
Conference Presentations
“We Do Not Dream of Labor (Based Contract Grading): Against Factory Timekeeping and Industrialized Peer Work in the Composition Classroom.” National Council of Teachers of English National Conference, November 2025, Denver, CO. Paper presentation.
“Transforming Creative Writing Spaces into Sites of Radical Queer Belonging.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, April 2025, Baltimore, MD. Paper presentation.
“‘always a thing of magic’: Teaching Trans Literature in the Undergraduate Creative Writing Classroom. Southeastern Associate of Cultural Studies Conference, February 2025, Charlotte, NC. Paper presentation.
“Appalachian Futures: Writing and Publishing Queer Appalachian Literature with University Presses.” Appalachian Studies Association Conference, March 2023, Ohio University, Athens, OH. Roundtable facilitator and participant, with Eileen Elizabeth Espinoza and Stacy Jane Grover.
“Purposeful Practices of Hope: Critical Emotional Studies and Writing Instruction.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, February 2023, Hilton Chicago, Chicago, IL. Workshop co-creator and co-facilitator., with Melody Bowden, Adenike Davidson, and Lisa Langstraat.
“Creative Writing, Mental Health, and the University Classroom.” Rooted in the Mountains, September 2022, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC. Paper presentation.
“Appalachian Women’s Place-Identity Assertion Through Food in Contemporary Literature.” Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association Conference, April 2022, virtual. Paper presentation.
“Transformative Conversations: Ungrading Strategies to Support Classroom Equity and Transparency.” Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy, February 2022, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. Workshop co-creator and co-facilitator with Maggie Fernandes.
“Let’s Go Zoomers! Concurrent Modalities in Hybrid Composition ‘Classrooms.’” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, November 2021, virtual. Roundtable participant.
“Queer Kitchen Tables: Intersections of Queerness, Food, and Women in Contemporary Appalachian Literature.” Appalachian Studies Association Conference, March 2021, virtual. Paper presentation.
“Pandemic Pedagogy: Practical and Empathetic Teaching Practices.” The Race, Space, Place Initiative at VCU Unconference, November 2020, virtual. Paper presentation.
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