Academics
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it"
Aristotle
Academics
As a student in the Composition and Rhetoric Program at the University of Florida, I am interested in classical and contemporary theories of rhetoric, especially Aristotle and Kenneth Burke. I am also interested in Composition theory, research and pedagogy, focusing on resistance in writing and classrooms of American universities as expressions of identity and "underlife." I have begun exploring Critical Discourse Analysis and post-process theory. I feel these will be important sites for future work in Writing Studies. Many, if not all, of these interests connect for me to the writing which occurs in prisons. Prison writing, or writing by incarcerated subjects, can be understood through many writing theories and discourse theories, but are often ignored or passed over. It is my goal to include prison writing as a legitimate object of study for the field of Writing Studies, and to theorize how doing so will open the field into new theories of the social use and purposes of writing as a means of self-authorization, normalization and control, and discursive resistance.
Here I have posted links important for my scholarship in composition, writing studies, and rhetoric, as well as some of my own more formal professional writings. Links and Writings more specifically related to prisons are found in the Prison Writing section.