Dr. Jessica Rose

Assistant Professor

Office: Arts & Sciences G-110M
English
College of Arts & Sciences
jessicarose@clayton.edu
Phone: (678) 466-4864

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

Intellectual Contributions

Jessica Rose, Lynée Lewis Gaillet, Morna Gerrard, "Collective Invention": Learning Through Women's Activism and Material Culture, University of Illinois Press – March 2026

Lynée Lewis Gaillet, Jessica Alcorn Rose, Extending Ways of Knowing: Multidirectional Mentoring and Co-Authoring, Rhetoric Review – Summer 2025

Presentations

Jessica Rose, Morna J Gerrard, Lynée Lewis Gaillet, "Collective Invention": Learning Through Women's Activism and Material Culture, Georgia International Conference on Informational Literacy, Georgia Southern University – February 7 2026

Service to the University & University System of Georgia

Department, AI Ad Hoc Committee, Committee Chair – August 2025 to Present

Department, First Year Writing and The Writer's Studio, Committee Member – August 2025 to Present

Department, Marketing and Community Outreach, Committee Member – August 2025 to Present

Department, Vibrant Voice, Committee Member – August 2025 to Present

Service to the Profession

Other, Young Scholars in Writing Undergraduate Journal, International – July 1 2025 to September 31 2025

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.