- Ph.D. Program
- Email: gwendolyn2015@tamu.edu
- Office: LAAH 331
- Document: CV
Biography
Gwendolyn's research applies her perspective of "legibility-making" to understand how institutions strategically render complex systems comprehensible. As a scholar of the rhetorical nonhuman/inhuman, she investigates how human symbolic systems construct nonhuman agencies and inhuman processes as legible objects within institutional frameworks, analyzing how perspectives of care and design enable certain interventions while foreclosing alternatives.
Her work extends to artificial intelligence and all forms of inhuman complexity, systems operating according to principles irreducible to human frameworks. She develops perspectives for understanding how institutions first render these complex systems comprehensible, then construct these legible systems as manageable objects to transform emergent processes like ecological systems, AI networks, or other non/inhuman complexities into governable entities.
Research Interests
- Rhetoric of Science & Technology
- Environmental Rhetoric
- Rhetoric of Economics
- Digital Rhetoric
- Artificial Intelligence and Writing Studies
- Governance and Policy Rhetoric
- Science and Technology Studies (STS)
- Posthumanism/Posthuman Rhetorics
- Technical and Professional Communication
- Semiotics and Ecosemiotics
- Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities
- Composition and Rhetoric
- Critical Animal Studies
Educational Background
- M.S., Science & Technology Journalism, Texas A&M University, 2020
- B.A., English, Sam Houston State University, 1995
- B.A., French, Sam Houston State University, 1995
Industry Experience
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- 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
Selected 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