Projects ✍︎
I am a rhetorical scholar of health, medicine, & digital infrastructure. I focus on HIV communication and digital studies, but broadly, my projects constellate across rhetorical studies of health and medicine, settler colonial studies, science and technology studies, and Black and Indigenous studies. In short, I use rhetorical theory to understand the ways settler colonialism and communication shape (non)human livability, focusing on biomedical and infrastructural development within colonial contexts.
My work has been featured in The Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, PRE/TEXT: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory, Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition, The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric, Literacy in Composition Studies, and is forthcoming in other spaces.
Below, you’ll find overviews of recent work from me or projects that I have cooking as part of my current research agenda. Many of these book and manuscript projects stem from my awards-winning dissertation, Toward a Virulent Community Literacy: Constellating the Science, Technology, and Medicine of Queer Sexual Health+. I'm happy to present or talk about these projects, either in your class or a workshop, so please reach out!
Book Projects
🦠 Virulent Rhetorics: HIV and the Politics of Digital Sexual Health
🏳️🌈 Queer (Im)possibilities: Honoring & Extending Jonathan Alexander and Jacqueline Rhodes
Manuscripts
"Researching on the Intersectional Internet: Slow Coding as Humanistic Recovery"
"Un-Settling Epistemic Hubris: Colonial Constructions of Health in the Flexner and Lalonde Reports"
"Coming to the Community-University Interface: Insurgent Methods for Extraordinary Times"