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Email
sriddick@wpi.edu
www.sarahriddick.com
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Affiliated Department or Office
Humanities & Arts
Professional Writing
Writing & Rhetoric
Associate Professor - Professional Communication
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
Humanities & Arts
Professional Writing
Writing & Rhetoric
Associate Professor - Professional Communication
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.

www.sarahriddick.com
LinkedIn
Research Interests
Digital Rhetorics and Cultures
Popular Culture
Rhetorical Theory
Rhetorical Methods
Social Media
Audience Studies
Communication Studies
Composition Studies
Writing Centers
Writing Program Administration
Environmental Communication
Technical Communication

Scholarly Work

Riddick, Sarah. “Students’ Social Media Disclosures: Reconsidering the Rhetorics of Whistleblowing.” Rhetoric Review, vol. 41, no. 4., 2022.

Kumari, Ashanka, and Sarah Riddick. "Strangers Holding Space: An Online Carework Experiment between Pre-Tenure Writing Program Administrators." Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, vol. 6, no. 2, 2022.

Riddick, Sarah A. "Deliberative Drifting: A Rhetorical Field Method for Audience Studies on Social Media." Computers and Composition, vol. 54., 2019.

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

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