“(Re)Producing (E)Motions: Motherhood, Academic Spaces, and Neoliberal Times”
by Alexandria Hanson, Alejandra I. Ramírez, April M. Cobos, Heather Listhartke, & Skye Roberson | Xchanges 15.1, Spring 2020
About the Authors
Alex Hanson is a PhD candidate in Composition and Cultural Rhetoric at Syracuse University. Her research interests include feminist rhetorics, multilingual writing instruction, and single moms in academia.
Alejandra I. Ramírez is an award winning artist, activist, mother, and doctoral student in RCTE at the University of Arizona, Tucson. Her research and teaching interests are in decolonizing methodologies, transborder studies, and aesthetics. Her work has appeared in El Mundo Zurdo 6: The Society for the study of Gloria Anzaldúa, Understanding and Dismantling Privilege, constellations: a cultural rhetoric publishing space, and Present Tense. Alejandra enjoys spending time with her family (including her husband, two teenage kids, dog, and two cats), spray painting, singing, gardening, and playing guitar.
April Cobos is a lecturer in the English Department at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia. She recently received her PhD from Old Dominion University in rhetoric and composition. Her current research interests include women and gender in professional workplaces, military affiliated learners, teaching with twenty-first century tools and technologies, as well as teaching grant writing, professional and technical writing, and civic engagement. She has taught traditional, online, hybrid, and live-streaming composition, rhetoric, professional writing, and writing for civic engagement at various universities and community colleges with close military affiliations over the past 15 years.
Heather Listhartke is a PhD and Rhetoric student with interests in materiality of digital composition, cultural rhetorics, and issues of access. Previous research and projects has centered on issues of access in composition and curriculum development of incorporating best practices of research and writing into science courses.
Skye Roberson is a PhD candidate in the Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication program at University of Memphis, where she teaches first-year writing. Her forthcoming dissertation, “Beyond Viability: Case Studies in Writing Center Sustainability,” seeks to define sustainable practices in the context of writing centers and encourage administrators to take a proactive stance toward an uncertain future. Along with writing centers, her other research interests include feminist rhetoric and pedagogy. When she isn’t teaching, she’s playing video games with her daughter or talking to her cats.