Cody A. Jackson
Degree and Focus Area
RhD, Rhet-Comp: queer theory, disability studies, materialist rhetorics, critical theory
Previous degrees/universities
M.A. English, Texas Woman's University
B.S.E, English, Arkansas State University
Describe your research and its purpose/applications
Cody Jackson is currently a second-year PhD student in rhetoric-composition at Texas Christian University. His research and pedagogy are focused on the intersections between queerness, disability, and archival praxis. Cody explores the material implications and influences of anti-ableist composition, theories of time and composing, and queer composition studies. Cody is the Reviews Editor of the Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics and the incoming co-chair of the Disability Studies Standing Group for the Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Publications
“Multimodal Un/Composition’s Queer Performativity: Curating Queer ‘Zines and a Politics of Im/Possibility.” In progress.
“Autistic Bodyminds and the Question of a Future for Rhetoric-Composition: A Position Statement for the Field(s).” Proposal accepted; in progress. With Yanar Hashlamon.
“Accessibility” in Keywords and Concepts in Making + Design Thinking. Jason Tham, ed. Utah State University Press, Forthcoming.
“Re-Animating Queer Life(after?)Death: Mourning and Queer/ing Multimodality.” Digital Rhetoric Collaborative, May 8, 2019, with Justin H. Cook.
“Re-view Essay: Non-discursive Rhetorics and Multimodality.” Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, vol. 2, no. 1, 2018, pp. 48-52.
Conference Presentations
“The Urgency of an Anti-Ableist Composition Studies.” CCCC: Considering Our Commonplace, March 25-28, 2020, Milwaukee, WI. Workshop Co-Facilitator.
“Breaking Commonplaces: Social Justice Perspectives on Rematerializing Pedagogy & Assessment.” CCCC: Considering Our Commonplace, March 25-28, 2020, Milwaukee, WI. With Gavin Johnson, Sean Kamperman, Pritha Prasad, and Ryan Sheehan.
“(De)Composing on the Edge(s) of Rhetoricity.” CCCC: Performance-Rhetoric, Performance-Composition, March 15, 2019, Pittsburgh, PA.
“Toward a -photic Rhetoric: On the Neoliberal Foreclosure of a Posthuman Ethics, or, “This is [a rhetoric of] water.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference: Re-inventing Rhetoric, May 31 – June 3, 2018. Minneapolis, MN.
“Refocusing the Discussion on Invisible Illnesses.” with Jessica Williams, MA. Collage as Method at Fourteenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry: Qualitative Inquiry in Troubled Times, May 18, 2018. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Invited talk. “On Queerness, Networked Memory, and the Quotidian Archivists: Theory, Method, and the Spaces ‘Between.'” Eastfield College Literary and Fine Arts Festival, April 23, 2018.
“On Queerness, Networked Memory, and the Quotidian Archivist.” Digital Frontiers Conference, September 21-23, 2017. University of North Texas.
RhD, Rhet-Comp: queer theory, disability studies, materialist rhetorics, critical theory
Previous degrees/universities
M.A. English, Texas Woman's University
B.S.E, English, Arkansas State University
Describe your research and its purpose/applications
Cody Jackson is currently a second-year PhD student in rhetoric-composition at Texas Christian University. His research and pedagogy are focused on the intersections between queerness, disability, and archival praxis. Cody explores the material implications and influences of anti-ableist composition, theories of time and composing, and queer composition studies. Cody is the Reviews Editor of the Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics and the incoming co-chair of the Disability Studies Standing Group for the Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Publications
“Multimodal Un/Composition’s Queer Performativity: Curating Queer ‘Zines and a Politics of Im/Possibility.” In progress.
“Autistic Bodyminds and the Question of a Future for Rhetoric-Composition: A Position Statement for the Field(s).” Proposal accepted; in progress. With Yanar Hashlamon.
“Accessibility” in Keywords and Concepts in Making + Design Thinking. Jason Tham, ed. Utah State University Press, Forthcoming.
“Re-Animating Queer Life(after?)Death: Mourning and Queer/ing Multimodality.” Digital Rhetoric Collaborative, May 8, 2019, with Justin H. Cook.
“Re-view Essay: Non-discursive Rhetorics and Multimodality.” Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, vol. 2, no. 1, 2018, pp. 48-52.
Conference Presentations
“The Urgency of an Anti-Ableist Composition Studies.” CCCC: Considering Our Commonplace, March 25-28, 2020, Milwaukee, WI. Workshop Co-Facilitator.
“Breaking Commonplaces: Social Justice Perspectives on Rematerializing Pedagogy & Assessment.” CCCC: Considering Our Commonplace, March 25-28, 2020, Milwaukee, WI. With Gavin Johnson, Sean Kamperman, Pritha Prasad, and Ryan Sheehan.
“(De)Composing on the Edge(s) of Rhetoricity.” CCCC: Performance-Rhetoric, Performance-Composition, March 15, 2019, Pittsburgh, PA.
“Toward a -photic Rhetoric: On the Neoliberal Foreclosure of a Posthuman Ethics, or, “This is [a rhetoric of] water.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference: Re-inventing Rhetoric, May 31 – June 3, 2018. Minneapolis, MN.
“Refocusing the Discussion on Invisible Illnesses.” with Jessica Williams, MA. Collage as Method at Fourteenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry: Qualitative Inquiry in Troubled Times, May 18, 2018. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Invited talk. “On Queerness, Networked Memory, and the Quotidian Archivists: Theory, Method, and the Spaces ‘Between.'” Eastfield College Literary and Fine Arts Festival, April 23, 2018.
“On Queerness, Networked Memory, and the Quotidian Archivist.” Digital Frontiers Conference, September 21-23, 2017. University of North Texas.