Episode 45: Dr. Jessica Pauszek (Emerging Scholar Series)

Episode 45 of The Big Rhetorical Podcast features a discussion with Dr. Jessica Pauszek and is another entry in our Emerging Scholar Series. Dr. Jessica Pauszek is Director of Writing and Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University – Commerce. She is from the small industrial city of Dunkirk, New York and a lifelong Buffalo Bills fan. Her research interests bring together working-class studies, local and transnational community literacy and community engagement, and archival methods. Since 2013, she has led a team of international scholars and community members in the curation of print (in London) and digital archives of transnational working-class writing by the Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers (1976-2007). She was awarded a 2018 CCCC Emergent Researcher Award and her dissertation received the 2018 Honorable Mention for the CCCC James Berlin Outstanding Dissertation Award. Her current book project is entitled “Writing From ‘The Wrong Class’: Archiving Labor in the Context of Precarity.” Her work appears in CCC, Community Literacy Journal, Literacy in Composition Studies, Labor History Today podcast, Reflections and more.