Nonprofits, Education, Wellness
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Academic research
In the digital age, many household skills like quilting, water-witching, and moonshining are going extinct. These traditions warrant protection because they teach us about the unique cultures and inventions in the rural U.S., such as in Appalachia.
Some tech companies may mistakenly believe that people in small towns or rural environments don't care about technology. But tech-makers can learn from these rural problem-solvers to combine old and new technologies to preserve their stories. This research intersects across digital humanities, new media, adaptation studies, cultural rhetoric, and folklore.
Peer-reviewed articles
co-author of "Digital Writing and Cultural Rhetorics Pedagogies" in Constellations, 2022
first author of "The Fotonovela as a Healthcare Communication Tool: The Rural Women’s Health Project as a Case Study for Graphic Medicine and Health Justice" published in ImageText Journal, 2021
Chapters and entries in edited collections with academic publishers
Women’s history encyclopedia entries: “Rural women in the war years,” “Irish motherhood, bodily autonomy, and Catholicism,” “Puritanism and idealized womanhood in colonial America,” “Women in World War II resistance,” and “Midwives in the 1900s United States" in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of the Daily Life of Women: How They Lived from Ancient Times to the Present, 2021
“Public Humanities as a Model of Community Care” in Imagining America’s PAGE Blog Salon, 2019
Book reviews
"Review of Playing with the Book: Victorian Movable Picture Books and the Child Reader" in ImageText Journal, 2021
"BOOK REVIEW: Better With Books by Melissa Hart" on Harrison Middleton University's blog, 2019
Chapters and entries in trade or other non-scholarly sources
“What Books Teach Us About Accessible Design: Assessing Book Design for Readers with Prosthetic Limbs" in UX Collective, 2020
“The Impact of Gender/Sex on Experiences with Artificial Technology,” a white paper written for Impact of Gender/Sex of Innovation of Novel Technologies (iGIANT), 2018
“Conversing with the Page: How Reading Can Make Us Better Speakers" in The Art of Communication in Lovely Silks Publishing, 2018
"From Cavemen to Musicals: Storytelling as a Tool for Emotional Healing" in The Alternative Well-being Sciences from Lovely Silks Publishing, 2017
“Underlying Punishment: How Clothing Marketed as ‘Empowering’ Can Actually Police Women’s Gender Conformity” in Voices de Queer Femmes Anthology, Vol. II, pending publication by The Vigil Center for the Arts
I am happy to provide my list of conferences upon request.
"From Digital Hygeine to Digital Wellness" on Facebook Live with Warrior Women, 2021
"A Twine Multimedia Narrative Workshop for Educator"at the University of Florida's Center for Teaching Excellence, virtual workshop, 2021
“Digital Storytelling Techniques”at the University of Florida’s Center for Teaching Excellence, virtual workshop, 2020
“Embracing the Mess in Digital Making” at the University of Florida in ENC 1136 Multimodal Writing/Digital Literacy course, 2020 in Gainesville, Florida
“Reading Sideways: Multimodal Text for 21st-Century Learners” at the University of Florida’s Center for Teaching Excellence, in-person and Zoom workshops, 2020 in Gainesville, Florida
“Asserting Our Voices: A Publishing Workshop” at the YP4 National Summit, 2019 in Oakland, California
“Mean Girls: A Workshop on Internalized Misogyny in Literature and Leadership Circles,” 2018 at Lyceum nb. 2 in Szczecin, Poland
Select invited talks
Select fellowships, grants, and residencies
National Endowment for the Arts competitive research internship, 2021
NASA and University of Florida's Exolith Lab Plant the Moon Challenge Scholarship, 2021
National Humanities Center podcasting institute, 2020
Movement School fellow in digital technology track, 2020
Society for Scholarly Publishing mentee in editing and design tracks, 2019-2020
PAGE fellow with Imagining America, 2019-2020
Harrison Middleton University Fellowship in Ideas, 2019
Scholar-in-Residence for iGIANT (Impact of Gender/Sex on Innovation and Novel Technology), 2018
Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Poland, 2017-2018
Ampersand Grant from Emory & Henry College to study publishing trends in Iceland, 2016