Whitney Lew James

Assistant Teaching Professor
University Writing Program

Research Interests

Digital cultural rhetorics, translingual/antiracist writing pedagogy and assessment, disability studies

Related Courses Taught

WR 13300

Biography

Whitney Lew James's teaching and research traverses digital cultural rhetorics, translingual pedagogy, antiracist writing assessment, and disability rhetorics. She has taught writing at liberal arts universities since 2013 with the goal of empowering students and creating equitable and collaborative classrooms. Her dissertation, which developed a digital cultural rhetorics critique of predictive algorithms that reproduce and reinforce existing social and economic inequalities, received the Outstanding Dissertation Award at Texas Christian University and portions are forthcoming in edited collections on research methods for digital rhetoric and artificial intelligence within the humanities.