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Sara Cooper

Murray State University
multimodal composition, embodiment, commonplace writing, feminist rhetorics, DIY rhetorics, scrapbooks, social justice pedagogy
Sara Cooper is an Associate Professor of English at Murray State University in western Kentucky, where she teaches graduate courses in the Doctor of Arts in English Pedagogy program. Her research interests include multimodal composition, embodiment, commonplace writing, and feminist rhetorics. She is the author of “Radcliffe’s Strongest Woman: The Bricolaged Body in One Progressive Era Women’s College Scrapbook (Rhetoric Review, 2002) which received a Theresa J. Enos Anniversary Award (honorable mention). In 2020 she was named College Teacher of the Year by the Kentucky Council of Teachers of English (KCTE). She is also mom to a vibrant nine-year-old, Ayla.