DEGREES 

• Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh. 2013. 
• M.A. University of Vermont. 2006. 
• B.A. Washington and Jefferson College. 2004. 

BOOK 

• Sounding Composition: Multimodal Pedagogies for Embodied Listening. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018. 
  • Reviewed in Enculturation, Sounding Out!, Computers and Composition, Kairos, College English, Rhetoric Society Quarterly 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 

• “Ticking Clocks: Rhetorics of Tenure and (In)Fertility.” Coauthored with Pamela VanHaitsma. Rhetoric Society Quarterly 53.5 (2023): 685-699.
• "Sonic Scenes of Writing." College English 84.4 (March 2022): 311-334.
• Sound Never Tasted So Good: ‘Teaching’ Sensory Rhetorics. Intermezzo ebook. 2019. 
  • Reviewed in Reviews in Digital Humanities  
• “Learning as Coordination: Postpedagogy and Design.” Coauthored with Matthew Pavesich and Designer Jeremy Boggs. Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture 28 (Spring 2019). 
• “The Digital: Rhetoric Behind and Beyond the Screen.” Coauthored with Jim Brown and Casey Boyle. Rhetoric Society Quarterly 48.3 (2018): 251-259. 
•  “Sound Practices for Digital Humanities.” Digital Sound Studies. Eds. Mary Caton Lingold, Darren Mueller, and Whitney Trettien. Duke University Press. 2018. 
• A Tale of Two Soundscapes: The Story of My Listening Body.” Provoke! Digital Sound Studies (digital collection). Eds. Mary Caton Lingold, Darren Mueller, and Whitney Trettien. January 2015. 
• "(Re)Educating the Senses: Multimodal Listening, Bodily Learning, and the Composition of Sonic Experiences." College English 77.2 (November 2014): 102-123. 

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS 

• “Composing River Music: Emergent Methods for Understanding Sonic Invention.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Baltimore. April 2025.
• “More than Brains on Sticks: A Multisensory Approach to Composing with Sound.” Auburn University. English Department. March 2024.  
• “On Mode Specific Invention: Sound Design for Deaf Theatre.” Ohio State University. English Department. February 2024.  
• “Sense Matter.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago. February 2023.  
• "Sonic Approaches to Inclusivity and Social Justice." Chair. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Online. March 2022.
• “Bittersweet Symphony: Sound and Multisensory Experience.” Brown University. Music Department. March 2020. 
• “Writing (and Not Writing) with Sound: Podcast Production and Embodied Inquiry.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Kansas City. March 2018. 
• “Art Lives: The Generative Nature of Fandom.” Rutgers-Camden Archive of Digital Ephemera (R-CADE) Symposium. Rutgers University-Camden. April 2016.
• “Sounding Composition: Teaching Multimodal Listening.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Austin. January 2016. 
• “Teaching Multisensory Listening Practices to Invigorate Digital Composition.” Inertia: A Conference on Sound, Media, and the Digital Humanities. Los Angeles. April 2015. 
• “Making Sense of Sound: Learning to Listen in the 21st Century.” John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute. Duke University. February 2015.   
• "Listening Bodies, Digital Production, and the Pursuit of Invigorated Sonic Experiences." Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). University of Maryland, College Park. “Digital Dialogues” Series. October 2014. 

AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS 

• NEH Mayo Distinguished Teaching Professorship. University of Virginia. 2022-2025.
• Richard Ohmann Award for Outstanding Article in College English for “(Re)Educating the Senses.” National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). 2015. 
• Andrew Mellon Dissertation Fellowship. University of Pittsburgh. 2012-2013. 
• English Department’s 2011-2012 Distinguished Teaching Award for Graduate Teaching Assistants and Fellows. University of Pittsburgh. 2012. 
• Elizabeth Baranger Excellence in Teaching Award. University of Pittsburgh. Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences. 2011.