Doctoral candidate in the Department or Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures at Michigan State University
Digital Presence
Sample Publications
Reviews of Work and Associated Media
Seth Kahn on Indy Res and Labor Orgs
Dissertation Sample
Scholarly Work and Research Areas
Writing Program Administration, Academic Labor, Writing and Program Assessment, Graduate Writing, First-Year Writing, Institutional Ethnography, Qualitative Methodologies, Materialist Feminism, Writing in the Visual and Performing Arts, WID.
Selected Citations:
Cox, A. (2020). Coin of the realm: Graduate student lore and faculty advice on research and publication, a video intervention.” London School of Economics Impact Blog, Accelerated Academy Series. www.blogs.lse.ac.uk
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., Schwarz, V. (2019). Review: assessment, equity and opportunity to learn. The Journal of Writing Assessment. (n.p.) jwareadinglist.ucdavis.edu
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.
Cox, A., Dougherty, T., Kahn, S., LaFrance, M. & Lynch-Biniek, A. (2016). The Indianapolis resolution: responding to 21st century exigencies/political economies of composition labor. College Composition and Communication (68)1, 38-67.
Cox, A. (2015). Mapping disciplinary values and rhetorical concerns through language: writing instruction in the visual and performing arts. Across the Disciplines: A Journal of Language, Learning and Academic Writing (12) 4 (n.p.) wac.colostate.edu/atd/performing_arts/cox2015.cfm
LaFrance, M., Benson, N., Corbett, S., Cox, A., Kish, R. & Whittingham, K. (2013). Rethinking first-year “English” as first-year “WAC.” Double Helix: A Journal of Critical Thinking and Writing 1, 1-16.
Methods and Orientation
My university journey began in photography and has ended in writing, though the two continue to inform my thinking, together, about language, meaning, community and the role of institutions in their regional contexts.
Some of that journey has included starting a community darkroom, collaborating on food justice projects with colleagues, students and communities, and advocacy for undocumented folks in my hometown. Some of that has included research and publication on feminist practice, labor equity and pedagogy. Much of it is has been tied to place, to land, and to culture as I have moved across the US and the globe as a part of my teaching and learning story.
My research methods are shaped by my love of listening and story. As such, I use qualitative methodologies–grounded theory, institutional ethnography and critique–and try to work in participatory and collaborative modes whenever possible–community engagement, mapping, experiential–to make work and teach in ways that are responsive, flexible and dynamic.
