Research
My work brings together composition theory and pedagogy, feminist rhetorics, and disability studies in order to explore the role that listening plays in two primary contexts: the first-year writing classroom and in the healthcare community. Within the context of my work in FYW, I interrogate the role that listening plays in writing instruction and argue that while listening often goes unnoticed in classroom practice and undertheorized in our scholarship, it plays a significant role in the teaching of writing. Using insights from disability studies and feminist rhetorics, I explore how listening is often operationalized in the classroom along gendered and ableist lines and offer a feminist disability reimagining of listening as central to the work of FYW.
In the context of healthcare industry, my work interrogates the ways in which listening mediates conversations about endometriosis in doctor-patient visits. Endometriosis is a chronic pain experienced almost exclusively by females. Drawing on other feminist science scholars, I demonstrate how women's reports of chronic pelvic pain related to endometriosis are ignored, dismissed, and overall not listened to because of commonplace assumptions that pelvic pain is normal for females. You can read this work in my book chapter "We're All Struggling to be a Complete Person: Listening to Rhetorical Constructions of Endometriosis" in the forthcoming edited collection, Interrogating Gendered Pathologies (Utah State University Press) edited by Erin A. Frost and Michelle F. Eble.
In the context of healthcare industry, my work interrogates the ways in which listening mediates conversations about endometriosis in doctor-patient visits. Endometriosis is a chronic pain experienced almost exclusively by females. Drawing on other feminist science scholars, I demonstrate how women's reports of chronic pelvic pain related to endometriosis are ignored, dismissed, and overall not listened to because of commonplace assumptions that pelvic pain is normal for females. You can read this work in my book chapter "We're All Struggling to be a Complete Person: Listening to Rhetorical Constructions of Endometriosis" in the forthcoming edited collection, Interrogating Gendered Pathologies (Utah State University Press) edited by Erin A. Frost and Michelle F. Eble.
I am happy to share my co-authored (with Ellen Cecil-Lemkin) College Composition and Communication's Symposium on creating more inclusive conference spaces. Our piece is titled "The Importance of Keeping Conference Quiet Rooms Quiet" and offers a brief history of quiet rooms, explores the common misuses of conference quiet rooms, and calls for scholars in rhetoric and composition to rethinking how they misuse quiet rooms in order to create more inclusive spaces.
