About

Johannah Rodgers is a writer, artist, and educator whose work explores representation and communication practices across media and their socio-economic and environmental implications.  She is the author of DNA: A Networked Fiction Project, 52WordDrawings (mimeograph, 2017), Technology: A Reader for Writers  (Oxford University Press, 2014), and several multimedia projects, which make use of digital, mechanical, and analog visualization tools to document, analyze, and communicate information about public spending, civic literacy, and social action in relation to income inequality in the United States.  She is currently working on a new collection of verbal and visual essays entitled “Dispatches From an Uncertain Future.” Until January, 2018, she was an Associate Professor at the City University of New York, a position she resigned from as a result of ongoing labor issues and their relationships with student retention and graduation rates.  You can read more about her and her work at http://www.johannahrodgers.net / @what_is_writing.