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Email
sriddick@wpi.edu
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Education
PhD English (Area of Study: Rhetoric and Writing), University of Texas at Austin
MA Comparative Literature, University College London
BA English (minor in creative writing), The Honors College at Virginia Commonwealth University
BA Spanish, The Honors College at Virginia Commonwealth University

Sarah Riddick researches and teaches about digital rhetoric, writing, and media; popular culture; and rhetorical theory and research methods. Her work appears in Rhetoric Review, Media & Communication, and Computers and Composition, among other journals and edited collections.

A photograph of Sarah Riddick. She is facing the camera and smiling, and she is wearing a black shirt.
Email
sriddick@wpi.edu
Affiliated Department or Office
Education
PhD English (Area of Study: Rhetoric and Writing), University of Texas at Austin
MA Comparative Literature, University College London
BA English (minor in creative writing), The Honors College at Virginia Commonwealth University
BA Spanish, The Honors College at Virginia Commonwealth University

Sarah Riddick researches and teaches about digital rhetoric, writing, and media; popular culture; and rhetorical theory and research methods. Her work appears in Rhetoric Review, Media & Communication, and Computers and Composition, among other journals and edited collections.

Scholarly Work

Riddick, Sarah, et al. "Responding to Cultural Crises Through Social Media Research and Student–Faculty Collaboration." Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, vol. 29, no. 1, 2024.

Riddick, Sarah. "Deliberative Drifting Over Time: A Critical Reflection on Designing Social Media Methods for Longevity." Learning from the Mess: Method/ological Praxis in Rhetoric and Writing Studies, edited by Ashley J. Holmes and Elise Versoza Hurley. Perspectives on Writing Series with the WAC Clearinghouse, 2024.

Riddick, Sarah. "The Ideograph and the #Pussyhat: The Multimodal Rhetorics of Brevity in the Women's March.” Hashtag Activism Interrogated and Embodied: Case Studies on Social Justice Movements, edited by Melissa Ames and Kristi McDuffie, University Press of Colorado and Utah University Press, 2023.

Riddick, Sarah. "Points of Contact Between Activism, Populism, and Fandom." Media and Communication, vol. 10, no. 4., 2022.

Riddick, Sarah, and Rich Shivener. “Affective Spamming on Twitch: Rhetorics of an Emote-Only Audience in a Presidential Inauguration Livestream." Computers and Composition, vol. 64., 2022.

Professional Highlights & Honors
Gerard A. Hauser Award, 2018
Rhetoric Society of America

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