mscanlon

History

Name: Molly Scanlon
Bio: After graduating from York College of Pennsylvania in 2006 with a B.A. in Professional Writing, I received an M.A. in Rhetoric and Composition from the University of Maryland in 2008 and am currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Writing at Virginia Tech. My research interests include the history and politics of composition studies, as well as visual rhetoric, both in the classroom and in extracurricular writing communities. My personal interest in comics has brought me to the study of dominant discourse and alternative discourse—in the ways it can be defined and identified, and the rhetorical potential allowed by the affordances of the mediums which it occupies. In my first-year writing classes I try to incorporate my research interests by introducing students to ever-broadening definitions of writing, literacy, and text. My current project includes research on the genre of comics journalism vs. traditional mass media journalism, photography theory and the photodocumentary tradition, as well as myths and metanarratives of American culture.

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