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Brandee Easter

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Assistant Professor

Office: Ross S305
Email: bdeaster@yorku.ca
Primary website: brandeeeaster.com

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Brandee Easter joins the Writing Department after earning her PhD from the Composition and Rhetoric program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research brings together digital rhetoric, feminist rhetoric, and software studies to ask how gendered rhetorical forces are exerted in computational infrastructures and has appeared in Rhetoric Review and Feminist Media Studies. Her book, On Visual Rhetoric, co-authored with Christa J. Olson, received the 2022 University of Michigan/Sweetland Publication Prize in Digital Rhetoric. Her teaching focuses on preparing students for the demands of 21st century literacies by combining rhetorical theory with digital making.

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Degrees

PhD in English, Composition and Rhetoric, University of Wisconsin-Madison
MA in English, University of Alabama

Research Interests

Writing , Media, Digital Rhetoric, Communications
  • University of Michigan Press/Sweetland Publication Prize in Digital Rhetoric, with Christa J. Olson - 2022
  • Rhetoric Society of America Dissertation Award - 2020
Journal Articles

Publication
Year

"Fully Human, Fully Machine: Rhetorics of Digital Disembodiment in Programming," Rhetoric Review 39.2, 2020: 202-15.

2020

“Feminist_brevity_in_light_of_masculine_long-windedness:” Code, Space, and Online misogyny, Feminist Media Studies, 2018, 18:4, 675-685, DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2018.1447335

2018


Current Courses

Term Course Number Section Title Type
Winter 2024 AP/PRWR3001 3.0 M Intermediate Digital Authoring SEMR
Winter 2024 AP/PRWR3012 3.0 M Writing, Creating, & Thinking with Code SEMR


Upcoming Courses

Term Course Number Section Title Type
Summer 2024 GS/CMCT6005 3.0 A Research Specialization and Practice BLEN


Brandee Easter joins the Writing Department after earning her PhD from the Composition and Rhetoric program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research brings together digital rhetoric, feminist rhetoric, and software studies to ask how gendered rhetorical forces are exerted in computational infrastructures and has appeared in Rhetoric Review and Feminist Media Studies. Her book, On Visual Rhetoric, co-authored with Christa J. Olson, received the 2022 University of Michigan/Sweetland Publication Prize in Digital Rhetoric. Her teaching focuses on preparing students for the demands of 21st century literacies by combining rhetorical theory with digital making.

Degrees

PhD in English, Composition and Rhetoric, University of Wisconsin-Madison
MA in English, University of Alabama

Research Interests

Writing , Media, Digital Rhetoric, Communications

Awards

  • University of Michigan Press/Sweetland Publication Prize in Digital Rhetoric, with Christa J. Olson - 2022
  • Rhetoric Society of America Dissertation Award - 2020

All Publications


Journal Articles

Publication
Year

"Fully Human, Fully Machine: Rhetorics of Digital Disembodiment in Programming," Rhetoric Review 39.2, 2020: 202-15.

2020

“Feminist_brevity_in_light_of_masculine_long-windedness:” Code, Space, and Online misogyny, Feminist Media Studies, 2018, 18:4, 675-685, DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2018.1447335

2018


Current Courses

Term Course Number Section Title Type
Winter 2024 AP/PRWR3001 3.0 M Intermediate Digital Authoring SEMR
Winter 2024 AP/PRWR3012 3.0 M Writing, Creating, & Thinking with Code SEMR


Upcoming Courses

Term Course Number Section Title Type
Summer 2024 GS/CMCT6005 3.0 A Research Specialization and Practice BLEN