I am an Associate Professor of Digital Writing & Rhetoric in the English Department at the University of Virginia. I earned my Ph.D. with a concentration in "Composition, Literacy, Pedagogy, and Rhetoric" from the University of Pittsburgh. My research and teaching interests include multimodal composition, sound studies, pedagogy, digital rhetoric, disability studies, sensory rhetorics, music, and pop culture. I have published scholarship in College English, Composition Studies, Enculturation, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Peitho, Sounding Out!, and Digital Sound Studies. My 2018 monograph, Sounding Composition: Multimodal Pedagogies for Embodied Listening, proposes an expansive approach to teaching with sound in the composition classroom. I also published a digital book via Intermezzo in 2019 called Sound Never Tasted So Good: ‘Teaching’ Sensory Rhetorics—an exploration of writing, sound, rhetoric, and food. I am currently working on a book project that examines sonic forms of invention in various contexts.

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