Jacqueline Schiappa

Dr. Jacqueline Schiappa is a Postdoctoral Writing Fellow at Macalester College’s Jan Serie Center for Scholarship and Teaching. She completed her PhD in Rhetoric, Scientific and Technical Communication from the University of Minnesota.

Jacqueline teaches introductory, advanced undergraduate, and graduate courses across disciplines in the humanities, primarily teaching courses in Communication, Rhetoric, and Writing with focuses on civic agency in public life. She has earned several competitive teaching awards and research-based fellowships in an R1 academic setting. Jacqueline has experience contributing to writing curriculum development, assessment, ESL writing instruction, and faculty development projects.

Jacqueline’s current research focuses on networked counterpublics’ production of multimodal rhetorics in new media spaces. Her forthcoming (2017) book chapter advocates “active” intersectional approaches to social movement organizing and activism. Schiappa’s previous scholarly publications address intersectionality in the Slutwalk movement (2015), and the impact of multimodal hashtag campaigns in the networked counterpublic known as Black Twitter (2014).

Ph.D., Rhetoric, Scientific, and Technical Communication (2016), University of Minnesota
Dissertation: Two “Actually Existing” Networked Counterpublics: The Rhetorics of the Feminist Blogosphere and Political Black Twitter
Major Emphases: Networked counterpublics, multimodal rhetorics, intersectional feminist theory

M.A., Communication Studies, Rhetorical Studies (2009), Texas State University
Major Emphasis: Social movement rhetorics; feminist environmental ethics

B.A., Communication Studies (2007), Texas State University; Texas Tech University|
Major and Minor Emphases: Rhetorical Criticism with a minor in Mass Communication