About Allison

I am currently a Ph.D. student in the Composition and Cultural Rhetoric Program at Syracuse University. I received my M.A. in Professional Writing and Editing from West Virginia University, and I hold a B.A. in both English and Spanish from Hollins University.

My research interests are fairly varied. I plan to focus primarily on writing center theory and administration, composition pedagogy, and digital literacies and rhetorics. I also have strong interests in disability studies and feminist rhetorics. Particularly, I’m interested in the way these areas intersect in terms of student access—access to literacy, within various sites of composition (e.g. the first-year composition classroom vs. writing center spaces), and among groups of students who are marginalized by particular teaching practices.

The blog name, “Accessing Rhetoric,” signals my own attempts to make sense of different facets of Rhet/Comp and also my interests in accessibility and accessible pedagogies. This blog is primarily a space for reflections about the course readings, class discussions, and lectures that I attend while at Syracuse. I am also apt to discuss the ways rhetoric and dis/ability manifest in the everyday.

For my Spring 2012 Universal Design in Education class, we blogged about UD scholarship and our experiences with different technologies. So I wouldn’t overwhelm my main blog, I created a secondary site to house those posts: dsp700.wordpress.com

If you have any issues accessing my blog, or if you have questions about my research or posts, please contact me.

ahhitt [at] syr [dot] edu