Published Research
JOURNAL ARTICLES
FORUMS AND SPECIAL ISSUES
“On Writing With(out) Sami,” Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics vol. 6, no. 2 (2022).*
*Part of a Special Issue on Writing and Carework during COVID that won the 2023 Michelle Kendrick Outstanding Digital Production & Scholarship Award from the Computers and Writing Conference
BOOK CHAPTERS
BOOK REVIEWS
Conference Presentations
COMPETITIVE NATIONAL CONFERENCES
“Critical Communication Pedagogy and Online Engagement Frameworks: Transformating the (Asynchronous) Online Classroom,” Learning and Teaching at University of Cincinnati (LT@UC) Conference, Clermont, OH
“Performing Bereavement in the Academy: Sadness, Femininity, and Whiteness,” Southern States Communication Association Conference, Frisco, TX
“Barriers to Greif: A Critical Perspective on Hospital Security Culture,” International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative Conference (Virtual)
“Textual and Autoethnographic Reflections on the Social Media Performance of Maternal Grief and Personal Identity,” National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA
“Witnessing White Feminist Apologia,” Presented virtually during 2021 Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender National Conference, Norfolk, VA
“Co-Authoring in Critical Rhetorical Studies,” Chair and Organizer, Presented virtually during 2020 National Communication Association, Indianapolis, IN
“@LegitTayUpdates Goes to Prison: Performing Citizenship and Solidarity in Digital Fandoms,” Accepted to 2020 National Communication Association, Indianapolis, IN — Canceled due to COVID-19
“Tina Fey “Chunk(s) It”: Defiant White Feminist Apologia,” (Co-Authored with Meg Tully), Scheduled during Unapologetic Inhospitality: Interrogating the Racialized Dimensions of Apology (Organizer), Accepted to 2020 Rhetoric Society of America Biennial Conference, Portland, OR – Canceled due to COVID-19
“Kurdish Women Combatants, US Popular Media, and the Rhetorical Power of ‘Badass Women,’” Presented during Exploring the Rhetorical Dimensions of the “Badass” (Organizer, Chair), 2020 Western States Communication Association conference in Denver, CO
“Sheetcaking for Social Justice: Tina Fey and White Feminist Apologia,” (Co-Authored with Meg Tully), Presented during The Rhetoric of Resistant Humor in Television Culture, 2019 Central States Communication Association, Omaha, NE
“‘Justice Will Be Punative (I’ma Smash)’: Satirizing the Patriotic Libido through the Lonely Island’s ‘Finest Girl’” (Co-Authored with Meg Tully), 2019 Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender, Cincinnati, OH
“Womentoring: Imposter Syndrome,” Panelist, Presented at the 2019 National Communication Association, Baltimore, MD
“Womentoring: Student to Student: How to Get the Most Out of This Conference,” Panelist, Presented at the 2019 National Communication Association, Baltimore, MD
“Problematizing Punjammies: Rescue Branding, Global Sisterhood, and Sexual Labor,” Presented During Top Papers in Feminist and Women Studies Division, 2018 National Communication Association, Salt Lake City, UT
**Top Paper Award, Feminist and Women’s Studies Division
**Top Student Paper Award, Feminist and Women’s Studies Division
“Pledging Allegiance: Performative Hyperpatriotism and the Protest Politics of the American Flag Hijab,” Presented during Race, Rhetoric, and Nation: Interrogating the Inter-Play Across U.S. Racisms (Organizer, Presenter, Chair), 2018 National Communication Association, Salt Lake City, UT
“Racial Rhetorical Criticism: Theory, Method, Ethics,” Panelist (Co-Presented with Rebecca Dingo), 2018 Rhetoric Society of America Biennial Conference, Minneapolis, MN
“Rescue Branding: Sexual Labor, Commodity Activism, and Global Connectedness,” Presented during Rhetorics of Commodity Feminism (Co-Organized with Christopher Thomas), 2018 Rhetoric Society of America Biennial Conference, Minneapolis, MN
“Across Hallowed Grounds: The Violent Circulation of Racial Scripts and the Rhetoric of Relational Racisms” (Co-Authored with Matthew Houdek), Presented during Our Legacies of Violence: Critical Approaches to Racisms Old and New (Co-Chaired/ Organized with Matthew Houdek), 2017 National Communication Association, Dallas, TX
“Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Indeed: Tina Fey, Amy Schumer, and White Feminist Comedy” (Co-Authored with Meg Tully) Presented during White Feminist Failures: Exclusionary Politics and the Future of Feminism (Co-Chaired/Organized with Meg Tully), 2017 National Communication Association, Dallas, TX
“‘Meet the Badass Women Fighting ISIS’: Western Media Coverage of Kurdish Women Combatants,” 2016 National Communication Association, Philadelphia, PA
“Picturing the Middle East: Female Fighters and the Power of the Photograph,” 2016 National Communication Association, Philadelphia, PA
“Laverne Cox Bares All: Transgender Bodies, Online Discourse, and the Historical Influences of Anti-Transgender Feminist Theorizing,” 2016 Rhetoric Society of America Biennial Conference, Atlanta, GA
“Muslim Women Against FEMEN: Online Spaces and the Construction of Feminist Alliance,” 2015 National Communication Association, Las Vegas, NV
“More than Headscarves and Hymens: A Feminist Analysis of Western Discourse Surrounding Muslim Women,” 2014 National Communication Association, Chicago, IL
“Solidarity is for White Women: Racial Exclusion in the Online Feminist Community,” 2014 National Communication Association, Chicago, IL
“‘Reject the Fraud’: A Voice for Men and the Transcendent Rhetoric of the Men's Rights Movement,” 2014 National Communication Association, Chicago, IL
INVITED LECTURES
“Making Space: Balancing the Personal and Political in Academia,” Keynote Address delivered at the 2019 Ball State University Communication Research Conference, Muncie, IN
University Symposium PRESENTATIONS
“Problematizing Punjammies: Rescue Branding, Global Sisterhood, and Sexual Labor,” 2019 James F. Jakobsen Graduate Research Conference, Graduate Research Colloquium to Showcase Fellowship Research, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
**Award for Outstanding Research in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies, University of Iowa
“Negotiating Western Media Coverage of Kurdish Women Combatants,” 2017 James F. Jakobsen Graduate Research Conference, Graduate Research Colloquium, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
**Award for Outstanding Research in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies, University of Iowa