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My scholarship examines the relationship between institutional and vernacular rhetorics<\/strong>, particularly the space between official narratives and the ways people experience, interpret, remember, and give language to their lived realities.<\/p>\n

I hold a PhD in Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design from Clemson University.<\/a>\u00a0My academic work draws from rhetoric, narrative identity, feminist theory, public memory, embodiment, and vernacular meaning-making to explore how institutions and individuals construct meaning, whose stories become authoritative, and what happens when institutional narratives and lived experience diverge.<\/p>\n

At the center of my scholarship is a question that continues to shape my research, writing, and communication practice:<\/p>\n

How do people give language to what they have lived?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am particularly interested in what institutions say, what people experience, and how language, narrative, memory, identity, and power shape the distance between them.<\/p>\n

This inquiry connects my scholarship with my professional work and informs how I think about audience, narrative, credibility, power, and trust.<\/p>\n

Areas of Scholarly Interest<\/h2>\n

My research interests include:<\/p>\n