As an educator at UT Austin and Austin Community College, I enhance my research agenda by using multimodal tools to help students advocate for digital change in their local communities.
For example in RHE 309J: Rhetoric of AI, I extend my research on multimodal communication into the classroom by teaching students how AI-generated audio and video shape local discourse.
Drawing on four years of experience as a research assistant on the Mellon-funded ($2,000,000) AVAnnotate project, I developed a framework for audiovisual rhetorical analysis that helped students critically examine the rhetorical effects of emerging technologies. Based on this class, I have an article under review at Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy.
My pedagogy encourages students to craft writing that is more meaningful and purposeful to them; as one student reflects, “I became braver when I write… I have become a writer who can tell my thoughts in a simple and happy way, and I am proud of how much I learned.” Through designing and teaching a wide range of courses at UT Austin and Austin Community College, I have adapted this pedagogical approach for dual-credit, transfer, and non-traditional students.
In recognition of this work, not only was I invited to speak to the Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition Department at Syracuse University, but I received the 2026 Kairos Graduate Student and Contingent Faculty Award for Teaching.
Selected Courses
RHE 309J: Rhetoric of Artificial Intelligence
Designed and taught in spring 2026 at the University of Texas at Austin, this course offers a survey of the digital literacy skills and practices required for responding rhetorically to inevitability narratives surrounding generative artificial intelligence, and how to critically engage with AI across a variety of rhetorical domains.
RHE 306: Introduction to Rhetoric and Writing
Designed and taught across multiple semesters at the University of Texas at Austin, this course is a first-year composition section in writing and argumentation that includes instruction in practical reasoning and the principles of rhetoric.
BHD 312: Programming for Humanities Data Science
Designed for fall 2026 for the Department of Behavioral and Social Data Science at the University of Texas at Austin, this course is an introduction to computer programming for the humanities and to digital humanities as a research area. The course focuses on Python and creative computing principles.
Designed and taught in spring 2026 at Austin Community College, this course is an intensive study of and practice in the strategies and techniques for developing persuasive texts, including the development of research methods for analyzing multimedia texts and sources.
ENGL 1302: English Composition II