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.

Research Interests

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

Current Courses

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

Research Interests

Awards

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

Current Courses