Biography
Jessica Alcorn Rose is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at Clayton State University. She obtained her PhD at Georgia State University in 2021. Before coming to Clayton State, Dr. Rose previously taught at Georgia State and Georgia Tech, where she also helped run writing center programs. Her research is informed by feminist, digital, and multimodal rhetorics, and centers on what happens at the intersections of communication, culture, and technologies. Secondary interests include archival research, writing centers studies, and the history of composition. Her work has appeared in journals including College English, and Peitho, and in edited collections, such as Writing Spaces and Nineteenth Century American Activist Rhetorics.
Education
Ph D, English, Georgia State University, 2021
MA, English, Georgia State University, 2016
Teaching Interest
Undergraduate research, writing centers studies, history of rhetoric, writing in the digital age, AI, communications and media, composition, grammar, professional communication, multimodal composition and rhetorics.
Research Interest
Feminist, digital, and multimodal rhetorics, history of composition studies, history of education, culture and technologies, archival studies, communications and memory.
