Author: Sarah Hughes

Sarah Hughes is a PhD candidate in the Joint Program in English & Education at the University of Michigan, where she also teaches in the English Department Writing Program. Her research interests include digital rhetoric, gender and discourse, and gaming studies. Her dissertation project explores how women use multimodal discourse—grammatically, narratively, and visually—to navigate online gaming ecologies.

Presenters: Christina Puntasecca Luiggi (Wright State University), Rick Wysocki @rickwysocki (University of Louisville), Caleb Pendygraft @rcalebp (Miami University of Ohio), and Michael Baumann @dr_michael_b (Marian University & University of Louisville) Part of this year’s Watson conference theme asked scholars to consider how our work matters to the world and how it materializes in the world. The first two presenters of the G.10 session responded to this call by looking outward, analyzing the treatment of queer bodies and queer material artifacts in institutional and digital spaces. The next two presenters responded by looking inward at theoretical concepts and pedagogical practices, challenging our…

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