last updated 6.1.2021
Education
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2017
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PhD in English (Rhetoric and Composition; technical communication)
Certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Fall 2015 Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL Dissertation: Memes and 4chan and Haters, Oh My! Rhetoric, Identity, and Online Aggression Committee: Jessica Reyman (chair); Michael Day; Kristen Myers |
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2011
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MA in English
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO |
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2008
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BA in English
Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL |
Academic Appointments
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2017 - Present
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Illinois State University, Assistant Professor of Digital Rhetorics and Technical Communication
Affiliate Faculty status with Women's and Gender Studies |
Publications
ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1790-3831Published Manuscripts
(2021). Reading mean comments to subvert gendered hate on YouTube: Toward a spectrum of digital aggression response. enculturation.
(2020). Reyman, Jessica & Sparby, Erika M. (Eds.). Digital ethics: Rhetoric and responsibility in online aggression. New York: Routledge.
Winner of the 2019 Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award
(2017). Digital social media and aggression: Memetic Rhetoric in 4chan’s Collective Identity. Computers and Composition, 45, pp. 85-97.
(2016). Breastfeeding, authority, and genre: Women’s ethos in Wikipedia and blogs (with Alison Lukowski). In Establishing and Evaluating Digital Ethos and Online Credibility, pp. 329-347.
(2021). Reading mean comments to subvert gendered hate on YouTube: Toward a spectrum of digital aggression response. enculturation.
(2020). Reyman, Jessica & Sparby, Erika M. (Eds.). Digital ethics: Rhetoric and responsibility in online aggression. New York: Routledge.
Winner of the 2019 Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award
(2017). Digital social media and aggression: Memetic Rhetoric in 4chan’s Collective Identity. Computers and Composition, 45, pp. 85-97.
(2016). Breastfeeding, authority, and genre: Women’s ethos in Wikipedia and blogs (with Alison Lukowski). In Establishing and Evaluating Digital Ethos and Online Credibility, pp. 329-347.
Accepted Manuscripts
Toward a feminist ethic of self-care and protection when researching digital aggression. Chapter accepted for Crystal VanKooten & Victor del Hierro (Eds.) Methods and Methodologies for Research in Digital Writing and Rhetoric. Colorado Springs: WAC Clearinghouse.
Bishop, Tiffany, Capan, Emily, Larsen, Brittany, Preston, Raven, & Sparby, Erika M. Tactical Technical Communication and COVID-19: Observations from Teaching and Learning about Risk Communication During a Pandemic. Revise and resubmit from Technical Communication Quarterly.
Cox, Courtney & Sparby, Erika M. Investigating disembodied risk in university crisis communications during COVID-19. Chapter accepted for Samuel Stinson & Mary Le Rouge (Eds.) Embodied Environmental Risk in Technical Communication: Local and Global Contexts.
Toward a feminist ethic of self-care and protection when researching digital aggression. Chapter accepted for Crystal VanKooten & Victor del Hierro (Eds.) Methods and Methodologies for Research in Digital Writing and Rhetoric. Colorado Springs: WAC Clearinghouse.
Bishop, Tiffany, Capan, Emily, Larsen, Brittany, Preston, Raven, & Sparby, Erika M. Tactical Technical Communication and COVID-19: Observations from Teaching and Learning about Risk Communication During a Pandemic. Revise and resubmit from Technical Communication Quarterly.
Cox, Courtney & Sparby, Erika M. Investigating disembodied risk in university crisis communications during COVID-19. Chapter accepted for Samuel Stinson & Mary Le Rouge (Eds.) Embodied Environmental Risk in Technical Communication: Local and Global Contexts.
Manuscripts Under Review
Meming Misogyny at the political divide. Under review, invited submission for a special issue on digital rhetoric in the post truth age to be published through enculturation.
Meming Misogyny at the political divide. Under review, invited submission for a special issue on digital rhetoric in the post truth age to be published through enculturation.
Manuscripts in Progress
Memetic Rhetorics: Building a Rhetorical Toolkit for Ethical Meming, book manuscript. Under advanced contract with the Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Press (University of Michigan Press)
Memetic Rhetorics: Building a Rhetorical Toolkit for Ethical Meming, book manuscript. Under advanced contract with the Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Press (University of Michigan Press)
Awards and Grants
National
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2020
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2019 Distinguished Book Award, Computers and Composition
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2018
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2017 Hugh Burns Best Dissertation Award, Computers and Composition
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2016
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Gloria Anzaldúa Rhetorician Award, Conference on College Composition and Communication
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Institutional
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2021
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Alice and Fannie Fell Trust (with Ela Przybylo), ISU, to fund “Zine-making Toward Social Change: Activism, Rhetoric, and Minoritarian Cultures"
Nominated for the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching by a Pre-Tenured Faculty Member, ISU |
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2020
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Alice and Fannie Fell Trust (with Ela Przybylo), ISU, to fund “Podcasting Toward Social Change: Sound-Based Pedagogy and Scholarship”
Teaching Innovation Grant (with Ela Przybylo), CTLT/ISU, to fund “Developing Anti-Racist Pedagogies at ISU” |
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2019
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Sigma Tau Delta Outstanding Faculty Member Award, ISU
Exceptional Teacher of the Year Award—Assistant Professor, ISU English department Pre-Tenure Faculty Initiative Grant, ISU 2017-2018 Outstanding Dissertation Award in Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, NIU Nominated for the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching by a Pre-Tenured Faculty Member, ISU |
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2018
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New Faculty Initiative Grant, ISU
Nominated for the College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching by a Pre-Tenured Faculty Member, ISU |
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2017
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New Faculty Startup Support, ISU
Outstanding Women Student Award, NIU’s Presidential Commission on the Status of Women |
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2016
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Dr. Mary Sue Schriber Junior Scholar in Women’s Literature and Language Scholarship, NIU
Director's Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award for Excellence in Teaching First-Year Composition, NIU |
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2015
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Arnold B. Fox Graduate Research Writing Award (second place), NIU
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2014, 2015, 2016
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Graduate Student Travel Grant, NIU
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Presentations
National and International Conferences
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2021
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Memetic Critical Power Tools: Teaching an Ethic of Privacy and Identity for Memes in the Technical Communication Classroom. Paper accepted to the Association for the Teachers of Technical Writing Conference, Zoom. (Rescheduled from 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic)
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2020
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Ethically Engaging with Digital Activism and Digital Media. Roundtable accepted to Computers and Writing, Greenville, NC. (Conference was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic)
YouTube, Haters, and Reading Mean Comments: Testing a Rhetorical-Ethical Approach to Studying Online Aggression. Paper accepted to Conference on College Composition and Communication, Milwaukee, WI. (Conference was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic) |
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2019
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Toward a Theory of Digital Aggression and Memetic Screens. Paper presented at Computers and Writing, June 2019, East Lansing, MI
Toward an Ethic of Self-Care and Protection When Researching Digital Aggression. Paper presented as part of a co-organized panel on “New Ethical Frameworks for Researching Digital Aggression” at Computers and Writing, June 2019, East Lansing, MI Political Memes and the Party Divide: A Case Study of Kim Davis and Hillary Clinton Memes. Paper presented at the Digital Rhetoric/Digital Media in the Post-Truth Age symposium, March 2019, Tuscaloosa, AL |
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2018
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Toward a Theory of Memetic Screens. Paper accepted to the Rhetoric Society of America Conference, June 2018, Minneapolis, MN (accepted, but was unable to attend because of family emergency)
Behind the Scenes of Digital Aggression Research: Identity, Method, Action, and Self-Care. Roundtable at Computers and Writing, May 2018, Fairfax, VA When Trolls Become Technical Communicators: A Case Study of iOS8 and Wave. Paper presented at the Association for the Teachers of Technical Writing Conference, March 2018, Kansas City, KS |
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2017
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Meming/Counter-Meming: Remixing Negative Memes to Deconstruct Stereotypes. Paper presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 2017, Portland, OR
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2016
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Fake Geek Girl, Remixed: Resisting Negative Stereotypes through Counter-Memes. Paper presented at Cultural Rhetorics, October 2016, East Lansing, MI
Anonymity, Design, and Identification: The Rhetorical Construction of Identity on Digital Social Media. Paper presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, April 2016, Houston, TX |
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2015
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Digitizing Analog Networks to Share and Reflect on Student Writing (with Michael Day, Alison Lukowski, and Dustin Marquis) Paper presented at Computers and Writing, May 2015, Menomonie, WI
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2014
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Where Do Women Work? Wikipedia, Blogs, and the Space of Authority (with Alison Lukowski). Paper presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication Feminisms Workshop, April 2014, Indianapolis, IN
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Invited Speaker
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2020
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Digital aggression: Research, experience, and policy. Invited participant for Leveled: Gendered online aggression and the move toward equality in the digital workplace, hosted by the University of Michigan IRWG program.
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2019
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Ethical meming—How can we meme inclusively? Invited keynote presentation at 2019 LangRhet Conference (University of Michigan). Ann Arbor, MI.
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Workshops and Working Groups
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2019
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Digital Aggression Working Group, Computers and Writing, June 2019, East Lansing, MI
Indigenous Working Group, Rhetoric Society of America Project in Power, Place, and Publics, May 2019, Reno, NV |
Local Speaking Invitations
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2019
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Digital rhetorics and an ethic of responsibility in online aggression. ISU English Department’s faculty speaker series. November 2019, Normal, IL.
Online Aggression and What We Can Do About It (with Jessica Reyman), NIU STEM Cafe, March 2019, DeKalb, IL |
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2018
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Presentation on methods and methodology used in my dissertation, for Bob Broad’s ENG 497 Research Methods in Composition Studies course at ISU, Spring 2018
Panelist at a roundtable about the first-year faculty experience, for ISU’s Graduate School, Spring 2018 |
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2017
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Meme/Counter-Meme: Remixing Negative Memes to Deconstruct Stereotypes, for the ISU Sigma Tau Delta initiation ceremony, Fall 2017
Panelist at the “Navigating the Writing Process” workshop, for ISU’s Graduate School, October 2017 Panelist at the “Preparing for the Job Market” workshop, for NIU’s English department, May 2017 Panelist at the “How do I get published?” workshop, for NIU’s Graduate School and Office of Research Compliance, April 6, 2017 Methods and Methodology in Rhetoric, for Courtney Gallaher's WOMS 630 Feminist Research course at NIU, March 22, 2016 and March 29, 2017 |
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2016
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Design, Ethos, and Identification: Memetic Identity Performance on Digital Social Media, for Jessica Reyman's ENGL 703 Seminar in Digital Rhetoric at NIU, March 29, 2016
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2015
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Eportfolio Integration, for First Friday Professional Development with NIU's First-Year Composition Program. February 13, 2015
FYComp Writing in the Domains (with Kelsey Williams), for NIU's First-Year Composition Retention Summit. January 9, 2015 |
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2014
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"Integrating ePortfolios in the FYC Classroom." For First Friday Professional Development with NIU's First-Year Composition Program. October 6, 2014
"Using Blogs in the Classroom." For First Friday Professional Development with NIU's First-Year Composition Program. March 3, 2014 |
Professional Activities
Organizational Membership
Digital Aggression Working Group (DAWG) - Founder
Association for Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW)
Society of Technical Communication (STC)
Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC)
National Council of Teachers of English (NTCE)
Rhetoric Society of America (RSA)
Association for Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW)
Society of Technical Communication (STC)
Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC)
National Council of Teachers of English (NTCE)
Rhetoric Society of America (RSA)
Illinois State University
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2018 - 2020
2017 - Present
2017 - Present
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Co-Faculty Advisor, Rhetoric Society of America, ISU Chapter
Faculty Advisor, Nintendo Appreciation Club, ISU, 2018 - Presen
Faculty member, Rhetoric Society of America, ISU Chapter
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Northern Illinois University
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Fall 2016 - Spring 2017
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Member, Digital Humanities Initiative
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Fall 2016 - Spring 2017
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Founding Member, Rhetoric Research Forum
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2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
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Panel Moderator, Midwest Conference on Language, Literature, and Media, NIU
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2012
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First-Year Composition pedagogical training:
Week-long workshop and two-course sequence on teaching first-year composition courses and classroom visits from First-Year Composition administrators |
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2011
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Editorial Staff for Style, Volume 46, Issues 3 and 4 (Fall/Winter 2012)
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University of Colorado
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2010
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Certificate in College Teaching:
Certification through the Graduate Teacher Program of 20+ hours of pedagogy workshops, one semester of weekly pedagogy seminars, two video-taped consultations, and two recommendation letters of teaching excellence from home department |
Teaching Experience
Illinois State University, 2017 - Present
Technical Writing I (ENG 249 | F2F and online)
Rhetorical Theory and Application (ENG 283 | F2F)
Technical Writing II (ENG 349 | F2F and online)
Visible Rhetorics (ENG 350 | F2F)
Hypertext/Digital Rhetorics (ENG 351 | F2F, online, and emergency remote)
Topics in Technical Writing: Technical Communication in the Zombie Apocalypse (ENG 451 | F2F and emergency remote)
Technology and English Studies (ENG 467 | F2F)
Research Methods in Rhetoric and Composition (ENG 497 | online)
Technical Writing I (ENG 249 | F2F and online)
Rhetorical Theory and Application (ENG 283 | F2F)
Technical Writing II (ENG 349 | F2F and online)
Visible Rhetorics (ENG 350 | F2F)
Hypertext/Digital Rhetorics (ENG 351 | F2F, online, and emergency remote)
Topics in Technical Writing: Technical Communication in the Zombie Apocalypse (ENG 451 | F2F and emergency remote)
Technology and English Studies (ENG 467 | F2F)
Research Methods in Rhetoric and Composition (ENG 497 | online)
Northern Illinois University, 2012 – 2017
Writing for Electronic Media (ENGL 424)
Technical Writing (ENGL 308)
Introduction to Rhetoric and Composition (ENGL 103)
Introduction to Researched Writing in the Domains (ENGL 104/203)
Introduction to the Basics of Grammar (ENGL 207, Teaching Assistant)
Writing for Electronic Media (ENGL 424)
Technical Writing (ENGL 308)
Introduction to Rhetoric and Composition (ENGL 103)
Introduction to Researched Writing in the Domains (ENGL 104/203)
Introduction to the Basics of Grammar (ENGL 207, Teaching Assistant)
University of Colorado, 2009
Introduction to Literary Theory (ENGL 1010, Teaching Assistant)
Introduction to Literary Theory (ENGL 1010, Teaching Assistant)
Institute of Reading Development, Summer 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017; Fall 2015
Mentorship
PhD Dissertations Directed
Charles Woods, “Interrogating Privacy Rhetorics on Genealogy Websites” (in progress)
PhD Dissertation Committees
Courtney Cox, “Defining Compulsory Academic Genres: A Feminist Rhetorical Interrogation of Required Institutional Practices” (in progress)
Matthew Schering, “The Perennial Quest: Equitable Assessment with The Student-Centric Learning Contract” (in progress)
Teigha Van, “From Violent Inceptions to Unapologetic Existence: Radical Assemblage, Erotic Imagination, and Defiant Storying of QTBIPOC as Sovereign Practice and Rhetorical Framework for Afrofutures” (in progress)
PhD Specialization Exams Advised
Charles Woods, “The Interdependence of Bytes and Genes” (completed Spring 2020)
PhD English Studies Exams Advised
Emily Capan, “COVID-19 Pandemic Risk and Crisis Technical Communication at Illinois State University: Coalition Building Between University Leaders, Instructors, and Students Through Email”(completed Spring 2021)
PhD Teaching Internships Advised
Brittany Larsen, Title Under Construction (in progress)
Charles Woods, “Establishing a Digital Identity-Attentive Cultural Rhetorical Methodology for Teaching Technical Communication” (completed Spring 2020)
Matthew Schering, “English 145 Internship: Contemplating Contracts” (completed Spring 2020)
Teigha Van, “Finding One’s Unapologetic Self: An Investigation in Rhetorical Invention, Intersectionality and Community in the Composition Classroom” (completed Spring 2019)
Charles Woods, “Interrogating Privacy Rhetorics on Genealogy Websites” (in progress)
PhD Dissertation Committees
Courtney Cox, “Defining Compulsory Academic Genres: A Feminist Rhetorical Interrogation of Required Institutional Practices” (in progress)
Matthew Schering, “The Perennial Quest: Equitable Assessment with The Student-Centric Learning Contract” (in progress)
Teigha Van, “From Violent Inceptions to Unapologetic Existence: Radical Assemblage, Erotic Imagination, and Defiant Storying of QTBIPOC as Sovereign Practice and Rhetorical Framework for Afrofutures” (in progress)
PhD Specialization Exams Advised
Charles Woods, “The Interdependence of Bytes and Genes” (completed Spring 2020)
PhD English Studies Exams Advised
Emily Capan, “COVID-19 Pandemic Risk and Crisis Technical Communication at Illinois State University: Coalition Building Between University Leaders, Instructors, and Students Through Email”(completed Spring 2021)
PhD Teaching Internships Advised
Brittany Larsen, Title Under Construction (in progress)
Charles Woods, “Establishing a Digital Identity-Attentive Cultural Rhetorical Methodology for Teaching Technical Communication” (completed Spring 2020)
Matthew Schering, “English 145 Internship: Contemplating Contracts” (completed Spring 2020)
Teigha Van, “Finding One’s Unapologetic Self: An Investigation in Rhetorical Invention, Intersectionality and Community in the Composition Classroom” (completed Spring 2019)
MA/MS Theses Directed
Sydney Klem, "Toward a Theory of Procedural Rhetorical Systems - How Players Take up and Subvert the Rhetoric of Video Games” (defended Fall 2019)
Brittany Larsen, “Gatekeeping Remix: Fandom Spaces and Identity Politics” (defended Summer 2019)
MS Portfolios Directed
Timothy Wyland, “A User Centered Participatory Framework for Marketing” (defended Fall 2019)
MA/MS Thesis and Portfolio Committees
Raven Preston, Title Under Construction (thesis, in progress)
Nkeiruka Nwobodo, “The Dynamics of Effective Usability in Technical Writing: A Portfolio in Professional Writing and Rhetoric” (portfolio, defended Fall 2020)
Sydney Klem, "Toward a Theory of Procedural Rhetorical Systems - How Players Take up and Subvert the Rhetoric of Video Games” (defended Fall 2019)
Brittany Larsen, “Gatekeeping Remix: Fandom Spaces and Identity Politics” (defended Summer 2019)
MS Portfolios Directed
Timothy Wyland, “A User Centered Participatory Framework for Marketing” (defended Fall 2019)
MA/MS Thesis and Portfolio Committees
Raven Preston, Title Under Construction (thesis, in progress)
Nkeiruka Nwobodo, “The Dynamics of Effective Usability in Technical Writing: A Portfolio in Professional Writing and Rhetoric” (portfolio, defended Fall 2020)
Undergraduate Students Mentored
Sarah Klumpp, advisor for Interdisciplinary Studies minor (in progress)
Sarah Klumpp, advisor for Interdisciplinary Studies minor (in progress)
Service
Professional
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Spring 2019
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Judge for Hugh Burns Dissertation Award
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October 2018 – Present
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Reviewer for Rhetoric Review
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2019, 2020
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Invited reviewer for conference proposals, Computers and Writing
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2018, 2019, 2020
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Invited reviewer for conference proposals, ATTW
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Institutional
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2015 - 2017
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Member, Presidential Commission on the Status of Women, NIU
- Media Intern, Spring 2015 |
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Spring 2015
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Participant in Illinois Regional Eportfolio Partnership (IREP), NIU
IREP was an initiative to connect surrounding community colleges with NIU through a shared eportfolio system to allow students to easily transfer among colleges and to NIU |
Department
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August 2020 - Present
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Department Faculty Status Committee, ISU (elected position)
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August 2019 - May 2020
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Graduate Studies Committee, ISU
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August 2018 - May 2019
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Department Council, ISU (elected position)
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August 2017 - May 2018
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Professional Growth Committee, ISU
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Fall 2017 - Spring 2018
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Curriculum and course development for ENG 351, ISU
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2013 - 2017
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First-Year Composition Committee, NIU
- Assessment Subcommittee, 2013 – 2017 - Textbook Subcommittee, 2013 – 2017 - Eportfolio Assessment Leader, 2013 - 2017 - Handbook Subcommittee, Spring 2014, Spring 2016, Fall 2016, Spring 2017 - Working Conditions Subcommittee Chair, 2014 – 2017 - Eportfolio Coordinator, 2014 – 2016 - Showcase of Student Writing Subcommittee, 2013 – 2014, 2015 – 2017 |
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2012 - 2013
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Graduate Student Advisor for Sigma Tau Delta, Xi Delta, NIU
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2009 - 2010
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MA student-faculty liaison, University of Colorado
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Fall 2008
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Reactivated Sigma Tau Delta, Alpha Iota Sigma, University of Colorado, Fall 2008
- Graduate Student Advisor, Spring 2009 – Spring 2011 - President, Fall 2008 – Spring 2009 |