Author: Charles Grimm

I am a GTA at Georgia State University pursuing a Ph.D. in rhetoric and composition while teaching FYC courses. I am passionately pursuing the Horizon, wondering in what ways the composition classroom can be a utopian space.

Within composition there have been calls to locate the teaching of writing in relation to other languages and the context of globalization (Horner & Trimbur, 2002). In conjunction with these calls have been turns towards code switching, mixing, and code meshing (Canagarajah, 2006; Young & Martinez, 2011). In my own work, I have argued for a multilingual and multimodal framework that attends to “code mashing” (Fraiberg, 2010a). This concept offers attention to the ways that actors work in and across a range of signs and symbols, including writing, talk, image, and gesture. In this manner, my scholarship gestures towards a…

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