Kirsti Karra Cole

rhetoric, composition, writing studies, writing enriched curriculum, academic labor, feminist rhetoric, digital rhetoric

Works (60)

Updated: September 28th, 2024 20:36

2025 conference paper

Where Policy Meets Position: Articulating Usable Disciplinary Knowledge for Administrative Spaces

Computer Love’: Extended Play, B-sides, Remix, Collaboration, and Creativity, CCCC Annual Conference. Presented at the Computer Love’: Extended Play, B-sides, Remix, Collaboration, and Creativity, CCCC Annual Conference, Baltimore, Maryland.

By: K. Cole & H. Hassel

Event: Computer Love’: Extended Play, B-sides, Remix, Collaboration, and Creativity, CCCC Annual Conference at Baltimore, Maryland

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: September 28, 2024

2024 chapter

Crisis Pregnancy Centers: Digital Rhetoric, Misinformation, and Trust

In I. N. Larsen, E. Strand, & F. Orban (Eds.), Trust under Threat: Challenges in a Digital Society. Münster, Germany: Waxmann Verlag GmbH.

By: K. Cole & J. Wagner

Ed(s): I. Larsen, E. Strand & F. Orban

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: September 28, 2024

2024 conference paper

Digital Collaboration: Modeling Writing and Editing Practices through Horizontal Mentoring

NKRF9: Rhetoric in Digital and Technological Transition. Presented at the NKRF9: Rhetoric in Digital and Technological Transition, Copenhagen, Denmark.

By: K. Cole, V. Renegar & S. Sowards

Event: NKRF9: Rhetoric in Digital and Technological Transition at Copenhagen, Denmark on October 9-11, 2024

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: September 28, 2024

2024 conference paper

Discursive Archetypes: Kamala Harris and Repositioning Stepmotherhood

7th International Conference on Gender Research (ICGR). Presented at the 7th International Conference on Gender Research (ICGR), Barcelona, Spain.

By: K. Cole & V. Renegar

Event: 7th International Conference on Gender Research (ICGR) at Barcelona, Spain on April 25-26, 2024

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: September 28, 2024

2024 conference paper

Out with the Old: Reconstructing Cognitive Models of Writing when AI Intervenes

ways2write \(w2w)/, EARLI SIG Writing. Presented at the ways2write \(w2w)/, EARLI SIG Writing, Paris Nanterre University, France.

By: K. Cole & C. Anson

Event: ways2write \(w2w)/, EARLI SIG Writing at Paris Nanterre University, France on June 26-28, 2024

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: September 28, 2024

2024 conference paper

Participant: Building the Two-Way Street: A Guide for Two-Year/Four-Year College Writing Program Partnerships

Watson Conference 2024. Presented at the Watson Conference 2024.

By: K. Cole

Event: Watson Conference 2024 on February 28 - March 1, 2024

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: September 28, 2024

2023 chapter book

(E)merging Expertise: Multivocal, Multimodal Preparation and Development of Graduate Teaching Assistants in Writing Programs

By: K. Moreland*, S. Lee* & K. Cole*

UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
4. Quality Education (OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 16, 2024

2023 monograph

A Faculty Guidebook for Effective Shared Governance and Service in Higher Education

By: H. Hassel*, K. Cole* & J. Giordano

Sources: ORCID, Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 24, 2023

2023 chapter

Challenges to Neoliberal Parenting and The Rise of the Ideal Stepmother

By: V. Renegar & K. Cole*

Source: ORCID
Added: August 24, 2023

2023 chapter

Conclusion

By: K. Cole*, J. Giordano & H. Hassel

Source: ORCID
Added: August 24, 2023

2023 chapter

Conflicts in Shared Governance and Policy Development

By: K. Cole*, J. Giordano & H. Hassel

Source: ORCID
Added: August 24, 2023

2023 conference paper

Critical Friendship as Literacy Practice: Reconceptualizing a U.S. First-Year Writing Program

Writing Research Across Borders. Presented at the Writing Research Across Borders, Trondheim, Norway.

By: K. Cole & S. Henderson Lee

Event: Writing Research Across Borders at Trondheim, Norway on February 18-22, 2023

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: September 28, 2024

2023 chapter

Developing Effective, Equitable, and Transparent Policies

By: K. Cole*, J. Giordano & H. Hassel

Source: ORCID
Added: August 24, 2023

2023 chapter

Doing Governance Work

By: K. Cole*, J. Giordano & H. Hassel

Source: ORCID
Added: August 24, 2023

2023 chapter

Engaging in Shared Governance Work to Support Educational Opportunities

By: K. Cole*, J. Giordano & H. Hassel

Source: ORCID
Added: August 24, 2023

2023 chapter

Introduction

By: K. Cole*, J. Giordano & H. Hassel

Source: ORCID
Added: August 24, 2023

2023 chapter

Introduction: Resisting Rhetorics of Mothering, Intensive Mothering, and Biological Determinism

By: V. Renegar & K. Cole*

Source: ORCID
Added: August 24, 2023

2023 book

Refiguring Motherhood Beyond Biology

By: K. Cole* & V. Renegar

Sources: ORCID, Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 24, 2023

2023 chapter

Shared Governance

By: K. Cole*, J. Giordano & H. Hassel

Source: ORCID
Added: August 24, 2023

2023 chapter

Strategies for Implementing and Assessing Change

By: K. Cole*, J. Giordano & H. Hassel

Source: ORCID
Added: August 24, 2023

2022 conference paper

Equity and Access in Graduate Education: Teaching Graduate Students to Teach Online

Conference on College Composition and Communication. Presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL.

By: K. Cole

Event: Conference on College Composition and Communication at Chicago, IL on March 9-12, 2022

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: September 28, 2024

2022 conference paper

Finding Place: Neoliberal Parenting and the Rise of the Ideal Stepmother

National Communication Association. Presented at the National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA.

By: K. Cole & V. Renegar

Event: National Communication Association at New Orleans, LA on November 17-20, 2022

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: September 28, 2024

2021 conference paper

Interrogating Rhetorical Futures of Parenthood: Stepmothers, Trans Mothers, and Alternative Pathways to Conception

National Communication Association. Presented at the National Communication Association, Seattle, WA.

By: K. Cole & V. Renegar

Event: National Communication Association at Seattle, WA on November 18-21, 2021

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: September 28, 2024

2021 conference paper

Jill Biden, Resistance, and Stepmothering: Resilience in the Neoliberal Landscape

Southern States Communication Association. Presented at the Southern States Communication Association, Greenville, SC.

By: K. Cole & V. Renegar

Event: Southern States Communication Association at Greenville, SC on April 6-10, 2021

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: September 28, 2024

2021 book edited

Transformations: Change Work across Writing Programs, Pedagogies, and Practices

By: H. Hassel & K. Cole

UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
4. Quality Education (OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 16, 2024

2019 book

Academic Labor Beyond the College Classroom

In Routledge Press. https://www.routledge.com/Academic-Labor-Beyond-the-College-Classroom-Working-for-Our-Values/Hassel-Cole/p/book/9780367313227

Kirsti Cole

Source: ORCID
Added: August 24, 2023

2019 chapter

Activism by accuracy: Women's health and hormonal birth control

In Women's Health Advocacy: Rhetorical Ingenuity for the 21st Century (pp. 163–176). http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85082639298&partnerID=MN8TOARS

By: K. Bivens, K. Cole & A. Koerber

Contributors: K. Bivens, K. Cole & A. Koerber

Source: ORCID
Added: August 24, 2023

2019 book

No Body is Disinterested: The Discursive Materiality of Composition in the University

Kirsti Cole

Source: ORCID
Added: August 24, 2023

2019 conference paper

Old Stereotypes, Worn Metaphors, Outdated Fairy Tales: Stepmother Self-Help Books as (useless) Equipment for (Barely) Living

Rhetoric in Society 7. Presented at the Rhetoric in Society 7, Ghent, Belgium.

By: K. Cole & V. Renegar

Event: Rhetoric in Society 7 at Ghent, Belgium on September 11-13, 2019

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: September 28, 2024

2019 journal article

The Activist Syllabus as Technical Communication and the Technical Communicator as Curator of Public Intellectualism

Technical Communication Quarterly, 29(1), 70–89.

By: K. Bivens*, K. Cole* & L. Heilig*

Contributors: K. Bivens*, K. Cole* & L. Heilig*

Sources: ORCID, Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 24, 2023

2019 journal article

“Evil Is Part of the Territory”: Inventing the Stepmother in Self-Help Books

Women's Studies in Communication, 42(4), 511–533.

By: V. Renegar* & K. Cole*

Contributors: V. Renegar* & K. Cole*

UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
5. Gender Equality (OpenAlex)
Sources: ORCID, Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 24, 2023

2018 conference paper

Creating Collectivity in the Neoliberal Academy: The Case for a Transinstitutional Feminist Collaborative

18th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference “Reinventing Rhetoric. Roundtable presented at the 18th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference “Reinventing Rhetoric, Minneapolis, MN.

By: K. Cole

Event: 18th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference “Reinventing Rhetoric at Minneapolis, MN on May 31 - June 3, 2018

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: September 28, 2024

2018 conference paper

Evil is Part of the Territory:” Inventing the Stepmother in Self-Help Books

18th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference “Reinventing Rhetoric. Presented at the 18th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference “Reinventing Rhetoric, Minneapolis, MN.

By: K. Cole

Event: 18th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference “Reinventing Rhetoric at Minneapolis, MN on May 31 - June 3, 2018

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: September 28, 2024

2018 chapter

Feminist Comedy’s Blond Badass: Amy Schumer and the Limits of White Feminism

In K. V. Anderson (Ed.), Women, Feminism, and Pop Politics: From "Bitch" to "Badass" and Beyond (pp. 99–118). New York: Peter Lang.

By: V. Renegar, L. Lowrey & K. Cole

Ed(s): K. Anderson

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: September 28, 2024

2018 chapter

Transgressing the Digital Terrain: Humor in Feminist Responses to Trolling

In J. Manning & J. Dunn (Eds.), Transgressing Feminist Theory and Discourse. London: Routledge.

By: K. Cole

Ed(s): J. Manning & J. Dunn

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: September 28, 2024

2017 journal article

Hush...The Dangers of Silence in the Academic Library

In the Library with a Lead Pipe. http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2017/hush-the-dangers-of-silence-in-academic-libraries

By: J. Schomberg & K. Cole

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: September 28, 2024

2017 book

Remodeling shared governance: Feminist decision making and resistance to academic neoliberalism

In Surviving Sexism in Academia: Strategies for Feminist Leadership (pp. 13–28).

By: K. Cole, H. Hassel & E. Schell

Contributors: K. Cole, H. Hassel & E. Schell

UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
5. Gender Equality (OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: August 24, 2023

2017 book

Surviving Sexism in Academia

In Routledge Press. https://www.routledge.com/Surviving-Sexism-in-Academia-Strategies-for-Feminist-Leadership/Cole-Hassel/p/book/9781138696846

Kirsti Cole

Source: ORCID
Added: August 24, 2023

2017 conference paper

Teaching Methods in Rhetoric and Composition: The Ethics of Feminist Praxis as Teacher Research

11th Biennial Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference “Rhetorics, Rights, Revolutions. Presented at the 11th Biennial Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference “Rhetorics, Rights, Revolutions, Dayton, OH.

By: K. Cole

Event: 11th Biennial Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference “Rhetorics, Rights, Revolutions at Dayton, OH on October 4-7, 2017

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: September 28, 2024

2017 journal article

The Grotesque Protest in Social Media as Embodied, Political Rhetoric

Journal of Communication Inquiry, 42(1), 5–25.

By: K. Bivens* & K. Cole*

Contributors: K. Bivens* & K. Cole*

Sources: ORCID, Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 24, 2023

2017 journal article

The Grotesque Protest in Social Media as Embodied, Political Rhetoric

Journal of Communication Inquiry.

By: K. Bivens & K. Cole

Source: ORCID
Added: August 24, 2023

2016 conference paper

Collaboration and Convergence: Writing Groups, Retreats, Coaches, and Accountability Circles

2016 Western States Communication Association Conference. Sponsored ORWAC panel presented at the 2016 Western States Communication Association Conference, San Diego, CA.

By: K. Cole

Event: 2016 Western States Communication Association Conference at San Diego, CA on February 29, 2016

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: September 28, 2024

2016 conference paper

Monsters Like Us: Revisiting Progress in Penny Dreadful Dr. Frankenstein and His Creature

Victorians Like Us III Conference: Progress: A Blessing or A Curse? Presented at the Victorians Like Us III Conference: Progress: A Blessing or A Curse?, Lisbon, Portugal.

By: K. Cole

Event: Victorians Like Us III Conference: Progress: A Blessing or A Curse? at Lisbon, Portugal on October 26-27, 2016

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: September 28, 2024

2016 chapter

The Wicked Stepmother Online: Maternal Identity and Personal Narrative in Social Media

In L. B. Arnold & B. A. Martin (Eds.), Taking the Village Online: Mothers, Motherhood, and Social Media. Bradford, Ontario: Demeter Press.

By: C. Kirsti & V. Renegar

Ed(s): L. Arnold & B. Martin

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: September 28, 2024

2016 conference paper

The “Wicked Stepmother”: Changing Maternal Identity and Transforming Personal Narrative

17th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference “Rhetoric & Change.” Presented at the 17th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference “Rhetoric & Change.,” Atlanta, GA.

By: K. Cole

Event: 17th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference “Rhetoric & Change.” at Atlanta, GA on May 26-29, 2016

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: September 28, 2024

2016 conference paper

Transgressing the Digital Terrain: Humor in Feminist Responses to Trolling

39th Annual Meeting of the Organization of Communication, Language, & Gender “TRANS*GRESSIONS,” IL, 13–16.

By: K. Cole

Event: 39th Annual Meeting of the Organization of Communication, Language, & Gender “TRANS*GRESSIONS” at Oak Park, IL on October 13-16, 2016

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: September 28, 2024

2015 journal article

'It's Like She's Eager to Be Verbally Abused': Twitter, Trolls, and

Kirsti Cole

Source: ORCID
Added: August 24, 2023

2015 journal article

Multimodality in Composition, Rhetoric, and English Studies: Praxis and Practicalities

Kirsti Cole

Source: ORCID
Added: August 24, 2023

2015 conference paper

Stepmonsters: Remixing the Rhetoric of Stepmotherhood

10th Biennial Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference. Presented at the 10th Biennial Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.

By: K. Cole

Event: 10th Biennial Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ on October 28-31, 2015

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: September 28, 2024

2015 journal article

“It's Like She's Eager to be Verbally Abused”: Twitter, Trolls, and (En)Gendering Disciplinary Rhetoric

Feminist Media Studies, 15(2), 356–358.

By: K. Cole*

Contributors: K. Cole*

Sources: ORCID, Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: August 24, 2023

2014 book

Feminist Challenges or Feminist Rhetorics? Locations, Scholarship, Discourse

In Cambridge Scholars Press. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-4438-5501-3

Kirsti Cole

Source: ORCID
Added: August 24, 2023

2014 conference paper

Shifting a Culture: Writing, WAC, and Assessment

13th International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference. Presented at the 13th International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

By: K. Cole

Event: 13th International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN on June 12-14, 2014

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: September 28, 2024

2014 conference paper

Stepmonsters: Stepmothers, Labor, and the Rhetoric of Motherhood

National Women’s Studies Association Conference. Presented at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

By: K. Cole

Event: National Women’s Studies Association Conference at San Juan, Puerto Rico on November 13-16, 2014

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: September 28, 2024

2013 conference paper

"It’s Been a Weird Week:” Kairos in the 21st Century

Nineteenth Biennial Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric. Presented at the Nineteenth Biennial Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Chicago, IL.

By: K. Cole

Event: Nineteenth Biennial Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric at Chicago, IL on July 24-27, 2013

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: September 28, 2024

2013 conference paper

"Remember, Baby Units, register your uterus by Friday to retain your voting privileges:” A Brief History of the Womb as a Rhetorical Trope

Contemporary Rhetorical Citizenship: Purposes, Practices, Perspectives, Rhetoric in Society 4. Presented at the Contemporary Rhetorical Citizenship: Purposes, Practices, Perspectives, Rhetoric in Society 4, Copenhagen, Denmark.

By: K. Cole

Event: Contemporary Rhetorical Citizenship: Purposes, Practices, Perspectives, Rhetoric in Society 4 at Copenhagen, Denmark on January 15-18, 2013

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: September 28, 2024

2013 book

Sisyphus Rolls On: Reframing Women's Ways of 'Making It' in Rhetoric and Composition

Kirsti Cole

Source: ORCID
Added: August 24, 2023

2008 book

(Post)Modern Psychoanalysis: A Re-Vis(ion)ing of Edgar Allan Poe

Kirsti Cole

Source: ORCID
Added: August 24, 2023

2008 journal article

Of Being and Passing Away: Performativity and Women's Activist Rhetoric

Kirsti Cole

Source: ORCID
Added: August 24, 2023

2007 journal article

Feminist Social Projects: Building Bridges between Communities and Universities

College English, 69(3), 238–259.

By: P. Webb, K. Cole* & T. Skeen

Contributors: P. Webb, K. Cole* & T. Skeen

UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
5. Gender Equality (OpenAlex)
Sources: Crossref, ORCID
Added: August 24, 2023

2007 journal article

Feminist Social Projects: Building Bridges between Communities and Universities

Kirsti Cole

Source: ORCID
Added: August 24, 2023

Employment

Updated: September 5th, 2023 14:20

2023 - present

North Carolina State University Raleigh, US
Professor, Co-Director Campus Writing and Speaking Program English

2008 - present

Minnesota State University Mankato Mankato, MN, US
Professor English

Education

Updated: October 9th, 2017 11:00

2001 - 2008

Arizona State University Tempe, AZ, US
Ph.D. Rhetoric, Composition, and Literature English

1998 - 2001

University of Montana Missoula, MT, US
B.A. English Literature English

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