I research and teach comparative rhetoric (rhetorical theory and practices beyond the Western tradition), multimodality, and digital writing pedagogy. Approaching rhetoric and writing as a global, multimodal art, I use cross-cultural rhetorical perspectives and multimodality as interconnected frames to expand how we theorize, practice, and teach the art of rhetoric in the 21st century.
Several of my studies on new media composition—in particular, the assessment of multimedia projects and digital delivery theory—have appeared in Computers and Composition, Multimodal Literacies and Emerging Genres, and conference proceedings.
My current book project, Wordless Rhetoric: Rhetorical Conduct as Political Discourse in the Thai Tradition,recovers conduct as a major form of rhetoric in the Thai culture. Drawing upon archival and field research conducted in Bangkok, my book advances a theory of conduct rhetoric to broaden our understanding of the gestural modality beyond the context of oratory and composing. More broadly, my work disrupts rhetoric’s traditional focus on the West and (phal)logocentrism and provides a new analytical apparatus for thinking about the role of race, gender, class, and national identity in the making and remaking of the rhetorical canons.
Several of my studies on new media composition—in particular, the assessment of multimedia projects and digital delivery theory—have appeared in Computers and Composition, Multimodal Literacies and Emerging Genres, and conference proceedings.
My current book project, Wordless Rhetoric: Rhetorical Conduct as Political Discourse in the Thai Tradition,recovers conduct as a major form of rhetoric in the Thai culture. Drawing upon archival and field research conducted in Bangkok, my book advances a theory of conduct rhetoric to broaden our understanding of the gestural modality beyond the context of oratory and composing. More broadly, my work disrupts rhetoric’s traditional focus on the West and (phal)logocentrism and provides a new analytical apparatus for thinking about the role of race, gender, class, and national identity in the making and remaking of the rhetorical canons.