Education

Bio

Gwendolyn’s research examines the (il)legibility of nonhuman forms of expression within human communicative systems. Integrating rhetoric, ecocriticism, and environmental humanities, she employs rhetorical practices attuned to the more-than-human world. Working with nonhuman agencies shaping shared rhetorical ecologies, her work takes a biosemiotic perspective to rhetoric and environmental studies. Ultimately, she seeks tools for analyzing complex environmental exigencies and fostering more expansive, convivial human-nonhuman relationships based on ethical cohabitation and reciprocal modes of communication.

Research Interests

• Composition, Rhetoric & Discourse Studies
• Rhetorical Genre Studies
• Animal Studies
• Critical Animal Media Studies
• Ecocriticism
• Pedagogy
• Digital Humanities

Accomplishments

• 2024 Popular Culture Outstanding Essay Award
• Graduate Assistant Instructor, Composition & Rhetoric
• OGAPS Research & Presentation Travel Award, 2023
• Graduate Merit Award, 2022
• Graduate Mentoring Academy Fellow—Facilitator in training
• Digital Humanities Certificate
• G.R.A.D Aggies Professional Development Advanced Certificate
• College Reading & Learning Association Certificate
• Three-Minute Thesis Competition–Finalist, 2019, 2018

Publications

• DiCaglio, Joshua…Inocencio, Gwendolyn, Cortez, Jessie. “Wikipedia as Editorial Microcosm: Wikipedia Articles and the Teaching of Applied Comprehensive Editing,” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, Fall 2022.
• “Workshopping a Social Justice Pedagogy: A Workshop for Faculty and Graduate Students,” Open Words, December 2022