research | leighgruwell

My research is focused on understanding the politics of writing technologies and how we -- as writers, scholars, and citizens-- might construct ethical relationships with the many actors that make composing possible.

publications

Books

Making Matters: Craft, Ethics, and New Materialist Rhetorics. Utah State University Press, 2022.

Mentorship/Methodology: Reflections, Praxis, and Futures. Edited with Charles N. Lesh. Utah State University Press, 2024.

Articles and Book Chapters

“Developing a Feminist Mentorship Praxis for Digital Aggression Research.” Shifting Practices: Advancing Internet Research Ethics through Feminist

Rhetorics, special issue of Peitho, vol. 25, no. 3, 2023. https://cfshrc.org/article/developing-a-feminist-mentorship-praxis-for-digital-aggression-research/. With Cam Cavaliere.

“Feminist Research on the Toxic Web: The Ethics of Access, Affective Labor, and Harassment.” Digital Ethics: Rhetoric and Responsibility in Online Aggression, Hate Speech, and Harassment, edited by Jessica Reyman and Derek Sparby, Routledge, 2020, pp. 87-103. [Book winner of 2020 Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award]

"Constructing Research, Constructing the Platform: Algorithms and the Rhetoricity of Social Media Research." Platform Rhetorics, special issue of Present Tense, vol. 6, no. 3, 2018. http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-6/constructing-research-constructing-the-platform-algorithms-and-the-rhetoricity-of-social-media-research/

“Writing Against Harassment: A Pedagogy of Equity in Online Publics”. Public Writing and Composition, special issue of Composition Forum, vol. 36, July 2017. http://compositionforum.com/issue/36/against-harassment.php

“Wikipedia’s Politics of Exclusion: Gender, Epistemology, and Rhetorical (In)action.” Computers and Composition, vol. 37, 2015, pp. 117-131

presentations and invited talks

"Hate (in) the System: Considering the Nonhuman in Digital Aggression." Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Denver, CO. May 2024.

“Feminist Mentorship as a Strategy for Digital Aggression Research.” Computers and Writing. Davis, CA. June 2023.

“A Conversation with the Task Force to Develop a ‘Position Statement: Principles for Equitable and Ethical Scholarship in Writing, Rhetoric, and Composition Studies.’” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, IL. February 2023.

“Making Matters.” Course Lecture/Discussion. University of West Florida, invited by Raina Garrett. September 2022.

“Developing a Mentorship Methodology of Safety for Digital Aggression Researchers.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Baltimore, MD. May 2022.

“From Dissertation to Book.” Course Lecture/Discussion. Miami University, invited by Heidi McKee. February 2022.

“Feminist Mentorship Within and Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries.” Conference on College Composition and Communication (via Zoom), April 2021.

“Intersectional Feminism & Digital Aggression: Research Experiences and Approaches.” Roundtable Discussion, Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition (via Zoom). December 2020.

“The (In)Visible Locations of Mentorship.” Paper accepted for the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Milwaukee, WI. March 2020. [Conference cancelled due to COVID-19]

"Feminist Research on the Toxic Web: The Ethics of Access, Affective Labor, and Harassment." Computers & Writing Conference. East Lansing, MI. June 2019.

“Affecting Methodology.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Pittsburgh, PA. March 2019.

“Reciprocity After Humanism: Constructing Ethical Relationships with (Nonhuman) Online Communities.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Minneapolis, MN. May 2018.

“All the Modes in All the FYC Courses: Towards a Heuristic for the Sustainable Implementation of Programmatic Multimodal Curricular Transformation.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Kansas City, MO. March 2018.

“Beyond Digital: Building a Capacious Multimodal Composition Curriculum.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Portland, OR. March 2017.

“Remixing Intellectual Property: What Crafting Communities Can Teach Us About Authorship.” Computers and Writing. Rochester, NY. May 2016.

“Feminist Rhetorical Resilience: Taking Action Against Gendered Hate Online.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Houston, TX. April 2016.

“Interfacing Our Way to Agency: Collaborative, Feminist Knowledge-Making Online.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Tampa, FL. March 2015.

“Disruptive Tactics: A Networked Feminist Approach to Researching Digital Spaces.” Thomas R. Watson Conference. Louisville, KY. October 2014.

“#thisisn’tworking: Process and Problems in Moving a Composition Program From Print to New Media.” Conference on College Composition and Communication Digital Pedagogy Poster. Indianapolis, IN. March 2014. With Morgan Leckie.

“Knit, Purl, Remix: Ravelry and Multimodal Resistance.” Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference. Palo Alto, CA. September 2013.

“The Mechanization of Knowledge: Wikipedia’s Silent Voices.” Computers and Writing Conference. Frostburg, MD. June 2013.

“Where my Girls At? A Person-Based Approach to Wikipedia.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Las Vegas, NV. March 2013.

“‘The Public Circulation of Women’: Nineteenth Century Pornographic Photography.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. St. Louis, MO. March 2012.

“Wickedpedia: Making Online Space for Feminist World-Building.” Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference. Mankato, MN. October 2011.

“Assessing Digital Texts/Inventing Digital Texts: The Challenge to Composition Teachers.” Digital Expo. Oxford, OH. September 2011.

“The Kairos of the Blog.” Computers and Writing Conference. Ann Arbor, MI. May 2011.

“Image and the Construction of the Historical Subject: Portraits of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Minneapolis, MN. May 2010.

“Reimagining Debate as a Feminist Practice.” Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference. East Lansing, MI. October 2009.