My research engages with the ways that rhetorical practices and power intersect. I am especially interested how rhetoricians and activists understand the links between everyday rhetorical practices and transnational systems of power.
My book, Activist Literacies: Transnational Feminisms and Social Media Rhetorics, was published October 20, 2022 by the University of South Carolina Press.
My ongoing research builds on the work I began in Activist Literacies to answer additional questions and explore new topics related to activism, disability, digital rhetoric, and globalization. That work fits into three broad themes.
First, I am working on several collaborative projects about the future of transnational feminist rhetorical studies and the contributions this subfield makes to rhetorical studies.
Second, I am working on a book about disabled wisdom, crip community, and activist rhetoric. As part of my work on the book, I have written a few articles and chapters about complex chronic diseases such as myalgic encephalomyelitis and Long Covid and the communities engaging in activism related to these diseases.
A third set of projects explores rhetorical education, student activism, and writing program administration in the context of contemporary globalization. These projects draw on my experience as a faculty member and writing program administrator at the American University of Beirut (from 2014-2018).