Specialization

Productive and Reproductive Labors

Ph.D. Emphasis in Writing Studies

Certificate in College and University Teaching

Education

B.A., Linguistics & Gender Studies, Northwestern University

Bio

M.A., Feminist Studies, UCSB
B.A., Linguistics and Gender Studies, Northwestern University

Research

Feminist pedagogy, writing studies, comics studies, sociolinguistics, affect, academic writing and labor, university studies, and interdisciplinary studies

Projects

Rachel’s dissertation, “Powerful Marginality: Comics, Pedagogy, and Feminist Theory,” draws together feminist studies, comics studies, and writing studies literature to discuss the productive overlap between the comics medium and feminist approaches to knowledge. Through a mix of both prose and original comics, she analyzes how the storytelling tools of the comics medium can be used to write about, teach about, and enact feminist theory for audiences both within and beyond the university.