About
I am a doctoral candidate in the department of Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures at Michigan State. I am a writing studies scholar whose work is grounded in materialist feminism, feminist standpoint theory and institutional ethnography. My doctoral research explores the relationship of faculty evaluation to labor equity. I center my work in institutional change and equity. In addition, I have researched and published in writing across the disciplines and the visual and performing arts. Education
Doctoral Candidate, Rhetoric and Writing, Michigan State University, expected completion 2021
MA Teaching of Writing, Humboldt State University, 2010
BAFA, Photography, University of New Mexico, 2004 Publications
Selected Publications:
Cox, A. (2019). (Re)mapping disciplinary values and rhetorical concerns through language:
interviews about writing with seven instructors across the visual and performing arts.
In S. J. Corbett, J.L. LeMesurier, T.E. Decker & B. Cooper (Eds). Writing in and about the Visual and Performing Arts: Creating, Performing and Teaching. Across the Disciplines Books, WAC Clearinghouse, 37-54.
Adler-Kassner, L., Cox, A., Elston, M., García de Mūeller, G., Kumari, A., Manivannan, V.,
Miller-Cochran, S., Moroski, K-E., Olejnik, M., O’Neill, P., Poe, M., Powell, A., Reid, S., & Roundtree, S.V. (2019). Building a twenty-first century feminist ethos: three dialogues for WPAs. M. LaFrance & E. Wardle (Eds). Writing Program Administration, (42)2, (n.p.).
Cox, A., (2018) Collaboration and resistance: academic freedom and non-
tenured labor. FORUM: Issues about Part-time and Contingent Faculty, (22)1, 4-13.
LaFrance, M., & Cox, A. (2017). Brutal(ist) meditations: space and labor-movement in a
writing program. In Kahn. S., Lalicker, W.B. & Lynch-Biniek, A. (Eds). Contingency, Exploitation and Solidarity: Labor and Action in English Composition. Fort Collins, Colorado: WAC Clearinghouse and the University Press of Colorado, 279-301.
Projects
Works in progress, forthcoming and under review:
Donelson, J., Cox, A., Failure to launch?: Graduate student perspectives on rejection-as-
failure. If at First You Don’t Succeed: Writing, Rhetoric and the Question of Failure. Corbett, S. (ed). (accepted to edited collection).
Cox, A. We’ll be taking this with us: Relationality and idealism in three graduate union
locals. Brown, T. (ed) What Grad Students Do: Expertise, Ethics and Exploitation. University Press of Kansas. (expected Spring 2021, book chapter).
Kulick, R., Cox, A. & Dias, F.V. (2020). Looking forward, reflecting back: Dismantling
narratives of assumed mutuality in a permaculture-based community-engaged food justice partnership. Local Environment. Taylor and Francis Publishers.
Cox, A. & Lynch-Biniek, A. Editing mindful of the non-tenure track majority.
Cox, A. & Riedner, R. Persistence, coalition and power: Long-term feminist WPA labor in
an independent university writing program.
Upcoming Talks and Conferences
Modern Language Association Conference, January 2021
“Editing Mindful of the Non-Tenure Track Majority.” (Panel Presentation)
Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 2021
“Institutional Ethnography: Uncovering 21st Century Exigencies in Writing Program Administration and Research.” (Panel Presentation)
“Practicing Inclusivity and Equity in Scholarly Publication.” (Panel Presentation) Memberships
NCTE
