By Emily Sok, Published May 7, 2024
Robyn Russo is a doctoral student in the Writing and Rhetoric program at George Mason University, and she is also an Associate Professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College, where she teaches composition, literature, and English language courses. She served as an Assistant Dean from 2015 to 2018 in the NVCC Loudon Campus’ English department.
Her research interests include writing across the curriculum and multilingual writers, particularly the intersection of these two fields. With more than nine years in community colleges, she is also interested in writing program administration to foster student success in open-access institutions. Much of Robyn’s work has centered on identity in postsecondary literacy environments. Her dissertation, linked below, for example, explores how Italian-American authors Edvige Giunta, Helen Barolini, and Maria Mazziotti Gillan construct and negotiate their identities through literature, and examines how these authors use writing as a tool to explore and express their heritage and personal experiences, thereby shaping their individual and collective identities.
Take a look at some of Robyn’s work:
- Article: “Fingerprinting Feminist Methodologies/Methods: An Analysis of Empirical Research Trends in Four Composition Journals Between 2007 and 2016”
- Article: “Feature: Dual/Dueling Identities: Helping Dual Enrollment Faculty Navigate a Complex and Contested Professional Space”
- Article: “”When children are not glad”: sympathy, performance, and power in abolitionist children’s literature”
- Dissertation Abstract: “Towards an Expansive Equity: Reimagining How Writing in Two-Year Colleges Can Facilitate a New Vision of Equity as a Practice”
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