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Coding Otherwise: Weird Programming Languages and Feminist Possibility
My first monograph, “Coding Otherwise: Weird Programming Languages and Feminist Possibility,” is under advance contract with the University of Alabama Press. It investigates “weird” or “esoteric” programming languages to explore how rhetorical constructions of the digital as disembodied, unfeeling, and ephemeral are co-constitutive with real, material power asymmetries. Case studies from this project have appeared…
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Accounting for Visual Rhetoric
Co-authored with Christa J. Olson Winner of the 2022 University of Michigan Press/Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Publication Prize in Digital Rhetoric “Accounting for Visual Rhetoric” offers a cumulative theory of the visual’s rhetorical affordances. This project addresses a gap in a subfield that has numerous rich case studies and concepts explaining specific instances of visual force…
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Toward a Feminist Sonic Pedagogy
Research as Listening, co-authored with Meg M. Marquardt In Amplifying Soundwriting Pedagogies: Integrating Sound into Rhetoric and Writing. Edited by Michael J. Faris, Courtney S. Danforth, and Kyle D. Stedman. In this chapter, we develop a feminist sonic pedagogy that emphasizes listening, collaboration, embodiment, and positionality to rethink approaches to student research projects. In particular,…
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Fully Human, Fully Machine
Rhetorics of Digital Disembodiment in Programming Rhetoric Review 39.2 (2020) One way toward a more embodied digital rhetoric is through interrogating constructions of digital disembodiment. To make that case, this article examines one of the most famous esoteric or “weird” programming languages, which are not designed for any “real world” purpose, but as art, parody, or…
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“Feminist_brevity_in_light_of_masculine_long-windedness”
Code, Space, and Online Misogyny Feminist Media Studies 18 (2018) C+= (pronounced “C plus equality” or “see equality”) is an anti-feminist programming language hoax that provides one example of the hostility experienced all too often by nonmale, nonnormative identities online. As a case study, this programming language demonstrates how misogyny happens in digital contexts through…