Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Writing Studies, University of Florida (May 2020)
M.A. in English, Auburn University (2014)
B.A. in English, University of Montevallo (2010)
Academic Appointments
Assistant Professor, University of Rhode Island (2020-Present)
Department of Writing & Rhetoric (Primary Appointment)
Department of Natural Resources Science (Secondary Appointment)
Senior Fellow, Coastal Institute, University of Rhode Island (2021-present).
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Books
Writing the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: The Ecological Awareness of Early Scribes of Nature. Co-edited with Steven Petersheim. Lexington Books, 2015.
Featured Articles & Book Chapters (Recent & Selected)
“Tracking Memes in the Wild: Visual Rhetoric and Image Circulation in Environmental Communication.” Co-Authored with Aaron Beveridge, Hannah MacDonald, Abbey Greene, and Julian Garrison. Frontiers in Communication (Science & Environmental Communication section), https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2022.883278/
“A Counterhistory of Rhetorical Ecologies." Rhetoric Society Quarterly, September 2021, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 336-352, https://doi.org/10.1080/02773945.2021.1947517 [Received Honorable Mention for ARSTM’s 2022 Article of the Year Award].
“Deep Mapping for Environmental Communication Design.” Co-authored with Shannon Butts. Communication Design Quarterly, March 2021, vol.9, iss. 1, pp.4-19 (Published Open Access Online First, January 20, 2021), https://doi.org/10.1145/3437000.3437001 [Awarded the 2022 CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication Award in the category of Best Article on Pedagogy or Curriculum in Technical or Scientific Communication].
“Trees, Anti-Advocacy, and Visual Rhetoric in Truax (A Parody of The Lorax),” invited submission for EcoComix: Essays on the Environment in Comics and Graphic Novels. Ed. Sidney I. Dobrin. McFarland, 2020.
“(Re)Placing the Rhetoric of Scale: Ecoliteracy, Networked Writing, and MEmorial Mapping.” Mediating Nature: The Role of Technology in Ecological Literacy. Eds. Sidney I. Dobrin and Sean Morey. Routledge, October, 2019, doi.org/10.4324/9780429399121-6.
“Sylvan Rhetorics: Roots and Branches of More-Than-Human Publics.” Rhetoric Review, February 2019, vol. 38 no. 1, pp. 63-78, https://doi.org/10.1080/07350198.2019.1549408 [Awarded the 2020 CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication Award in the category of Best Article on Philosophy or Theory of Technical or Scientific Communication].
“Plato’s Apocalyptic Rhetoric: Interpreting Bioregionalism in the Critias-Timaeus Dialogues.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Summer 2016, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 548-563, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isw049.
Public & Creative Writing
Books
Losing the Dog (Poetry Collection). Salmon Poetry, Forthcoming.
Reflections on the Dark Water (Poetry Collection). Solomon & George, 2016.
Poetry Journals & Anthologies (Selected from 50+)
“Writer's Retreat” Southern Review. Summer 2022.
“Sandhill Cranes” Southern Poetry Review. Fall 2020 (58.1).
“Tree Cutter’s Song” and “Three Chicken Day.” Asheville Poetry Review. Spring 2020 (26/27.1).
“Deep Fade,” “At Heaven's Dirty Riverbank,” and “Trace.” Mountains Piled upon Mountains: Contemporary Appalachian Nature Writing in the Anthropocene. Ed. Jessica Cory. West Virginia UP, 2019.
“Bird Clock” and “Flyover.” Tar River Poetry. Fall 2019 (59.1).
“Sunfall with Bat House.” North American Review. Winter 2019 (304.1).
“Driving Home from the Psychiatric Hospital.” Prairie Schooner. Spring 2019 (93.1). Reprinted in A Tether to this World: Mental Health Recovery Stories. Main Street Rag Press, 2021. Available Open Access via Project MUSE.
“Pastoral.” Crab Orchard Review. Fall 2018 (23.2).
“Middle of Nowhere, Five-Thirty.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. Spring 2018 (25.2), https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isy038.
“Blackberry” and “Nocturne.” Michigan Quarterly Review. Fall 2017 (56.4).
"Bangor Cave." Town Creek Poetry. Spring 2013 (7.1).
Brief Essays & Book Reviews
"Foreword: Why Ecologists Should Study Electracy,"" in Miami Virtue: Choragraphy of the Virtual City, by Gregory L. Ulmer with John Craig Freeman, Barbara Jo Revelle, and William Tilson. Brill, December 2022.
University of Rhode Island’s Research, Scholarship and Creative Work Excellence Award in the College of Arts and Sciences (2023)
Honorable Mention, the Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine's Article of the Year Award. For "A Counterhistory of Rhetorical Ecologies" (2022).
CCCC/NCTE’s Best Article on Pedagogy or Curriculum in Technical or Scientific Communication. For “Deep Mapping for Environmental Communication Design” (2022).
International Society for the History of Rhetoric Conference Travel Award (2022)
Residency, Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts, Fairhope, AL (Summer 2020).
CCCC/NCTE’s Best Article on Philosophy or Theory of Technical or Scientific Communication. For “Sylvan Rhetorics: Roots and Branches of More-Than-Human Publics” (2020).
Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Award, University of Florida (Fall 2019).
Graduate Teaching Award, Department of English, University of Florida (Spring 2018).
Graduate School Research Fellowship, University of Florida (Fall 2015-Summer 2019).
Graduate Teaching Award, Department of English, Auburn University (Spring 2014).
Harper Travel Award, South-Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference (Spring 2013).
Grant-Funded Projects
External
$29,952.71. Co-PI. Amelia Moore (PI). Madison Jones, Marcus Nevius, Kendall Moore. Augmenting Manissean Public Memory, Sense of Place, & Belonging on Block Island. National Endowment for the Humanities. 2022-2023.
~$8,100,000. Collaborator (Research Translation Core Team). Rainer Lohmann (PI). STEEP II: Sources, Transport, Exposure & Effects of PFAS. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. 2022-2027.
$5,000. PI. Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, 2021.
$750,000. Co-PI. Tolani Olagundoye (PI), Alissa Cox, Christina DiCenzo, Michelle Fontes, Madison Jones, Becky Sartini, Christine Turenius-Bell, Kate Venturini. Rhode Island Agriculture and Food Systems Fellowship Program (RIAFSFP). National Institute of Food and Agriculture, 2022-2026.
$20,000. PI (with Amelia Moore). Phase II: Development for Augmenting Manissean Public Memory, Sense of Place, and Belonging on Block Island. University of Rhode Island Proposal Development Grants. Office of Research Development, 2023.
$5,000. PI. Visualizing Stormwater Infrastructure: A Digital Walking Tour at Roger Williams Park. University of Rhode Island Coastal Institute, Catalyst Grant, 2023.
$5,000. PI. Phase II: The North Woods Project Implementation Grant. University of Rhode Island, North Woods Small Grants Opportunity, 2022.
$7,000. PI (with Travess Smalley). Digital Infrastructure for The North Woods Project. CAREERS Cyberteam NSF Program, 2023.
$5,000. PI. The Digital Classroom in the Augmented Forest: Rhetorical Field Methods for Place-Based Teaching and Research. University of Rhode Island, North Woods Small Grants Opportunity, 2022.
$5,000. PI. Augmenting Counter-Tourism: A Deep Mapping Project on Block Island. University of Rhode Island Arts and Sciences Dean’s Faculty Summer Research Program, 2021.
“Sylvan Rhetorics, Anti-Advocacy, and Visual Communication in Truax (A Parody of The Lorax)” Conference on Communication and Environment. Online (June 2020).
“Better Metaphors: Rhetorical Ecologies and Decolonial Posthumanism.” American Society for the History of Rhetoric sponsored panel. National Communication Association. Indianapolis, IN (November 2020).
“Deep Mapping for Environmental Communication Design” Association for the Rhetoric of Science and Technology Virtual Pre-Conference at the National Communication Association Conference (November 2020).
“Sylvan Rhetorics: Roots and Branches of More-than-Human Publics.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Pittsburgh, PA (March 2019).
“Reinventing Place in an Era of Climate Change.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Minneapolis, MN (May 2018).
“EcoTour: Digital Rhetoric and Local Spaces.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Minneapolis, MN (May 2018).
“(Re)Placing Scale.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Kansas City, MI (April 2018).
“Articulate Detroit (ASLE Subvention-Grant walking tour).” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Conference. Detroit, MI (June 2017).
Invited Talks
“Augmented Reality and Digital Activism.” University of North Florida (Fall 2017).
“Ecopoetics and Digital Publishing” (via Skype). Texas State University (Fall 2015).
“Why Major in English Studies?” University of Montevallo (Spring 2015).
Professional Memberships
Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine
College Composition and Communication
Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication
National Council of Teachers of English
Rhetoric Society of America