Episode 78: Ashley M. Beardsley (Emerging Scholar Series)

Episode 78 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast is another entry in our Emerging Scholar Series. Ashley M. Beardsley holds an MFA in Writing and Poetics with a concentration in poetry from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (Naropa University) and a certificate in publishing from the Denver Publishing Institute (University of Denver). She is a PhD candidate in Rhetoric and Writing Studies at the University of Oklahoma where her research focuses on food and cookbooks as multimodal, collaboratively written community texts; digital and community literacy; the rhetoric of food; and feminist rhetoric. She also works as the Assistant Director of Technical Writing and Communication, teaches technical writing, and is an assistant editor of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. Follow us @thebigrhet.