Claire Oldham Griffith
Michigan State University
feminist historiography, cultural rhetorics, material rhetorics, space/place rhetorics, multimodality
Claire Oldham Griffith (she/hers) received her PhD from the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures at Michigan State University and her MA in Technical Communication from Texas Tech University. Her dissertation, “Rhetorics of the Small: The Everyday Phenomena of the Home” is a feminist inquiry into small, daily actions and practices of three generations of women in her family as rhetorical meaning-making. Influenced by a background in technical writing, her larger research interests seek to connect the technical and digital aspects of communication to larger social-cultural theories of place, space, and embodied experience. Her interest in cultural rhetorics and feminist theory largely shape her commitment to interdisciplinarity, multimodality, and pedagogical theory in both first-year composition and professional writing contexts.

