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Survivor Agency and the Mandatory Reporter: Recommendations for WPAs

This project provides recommendations for Writing Program Administrators (WPAs) who oversee the training and professional development of First Year Writing (FYW) instructors on the Title IX mandatory reporter status. It points to the need to include in mandatory reporter training the voices, experiences, and perspectives of survivors and survivor advocates, along with the more common institutional perspectives. 

Project directions: Part of a panel for the 2018 Watson Conference with Lauren Bretnell and Elise Page Dixon; article draft in progress with Lauren Bretnell, submission slated 6/19.   

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Complicating the Canon: The Works of Simone de Beauvoir 

​This project seeks to problematize the processes of canonization by looking at the sociocultural contexts that shaped Simone de Beauvoir into the feminist we know her as today, arguing that, ironically, this construction as feminist has limited the impact of the vast body of her work.

Project directions: Article draft in progress, submission slated  8/19 

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Reading Beauvoir through a Black Feminist Lens

This project considers how we should (re)read and (re)contextualize Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, by analyzing genealogies of erasure and presenting a model of critical inclusive recovery. It suggests that teachers and scholars use this framework when visiting other key works in the feminist canons, particularly when revising and reframing our critical engagements with canonical white feminists. Ultimately, this project argues that a Black Feminist lens is crucial in the teaching and anthologizing of all feminist work; while feminists like Beauvoir are worthy of continued study, use, and expansion in feminist projects today, such engagement must first begin from more critical investigations of problematics in such works. This critical engagement has implications in how we orient ourselves to the feminist canon in our scholarship and our pedagogy.

Project directions: Article draft out for consideration as of 2/19

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Beauvoir and New Materialism

This project seeks to expand emerging attempts to write Simone de Beauvoir's intellectual genealogy into new and generative futurities. Following the revisionist works of key Beauvoir scholars such as Toril Moi, Margaret A. Simons, and Sonja Kruks and building on work by New Materialists such as Rosi Braidotti, Jane Bennett, and Karan Barad, we seek to show the ways in which an expanded reading of Beauvoir, particularly of The Ethics of Ambiguity, ​might provide new potentials for critical engagement with her work. 

​Project directions: Presented at the 2018 Simone de Beauvoir Society Conference with Derek Mkhaiel. Article draft in progress, submission slated 9/19. 

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A Pedagogy of Imagination: Speculative and Materialist Approaches to the Writing Classroom 

This project seeks to build on critical pedagogical approaches by applying Maxine Greene's existentialist, imaginative pedagogy to theoretical frameworks of speculative and materialist feminisms. It sees the use of imagination, speculative futurity, and materially-oriented social justice approaches to classroom practices and curriculum construction as being particularly kairotic given the urgency of critically thinking about and addressing social and environmental problems in the 21st century. 

Project directions: Part of a panel for CCCCs 2019 (see "presentations" tab for conference paper; article draft in progress, submission slated 10/19.