@inproceedings{cole_hassel_2025, title={Where Policy Meets Position: Articulating Usable Disciplinary Knowledge for Administrative Spaces}, booktitle={Computer Love’: Extended Play, B-sides, Remix, Collaboration, and Creativity, CCCC Annual Conference}, author={Cole, K. and Hassel, H.}, year={2025}, month={Apr} }
 @inbook{cole_wagner_2024, place={Münster, Germany}, title={Crisis Pregnancy Centers: Digital Rhetoric, Misinformation, and Trust}, booktitle={Trust under Threat: Challenges in a Digital Society}, publisher={Waxmann Verlag GmbH}, author={Cole, Kirsti and Wagner, Johanna M.}, editor={Larsen, I.N. and Strand, Ellen and Orban, FranckEditors}, year={2024} }
 @inproceedings{cole_renegar_sowards_2024, title={Digital Collaboration: Modeling Writing and Editing Practices through Horizontal Mentoring}, booktitle={NKRF9: Rhetoric in Digital and Technological Transition}, author={Cole, K. and Renegar, V. and Sowards, S.}, year={2024}, month={Oct} }
 @inproceedings{cole_renegar_2024, title={Discursive Archetypes: Kamala Harris and Repositioning Stepmotherhood}, booktitle={7th International Conference on Gender Research (ICGR)}, author={Cole, K. and Renegar, V.}, year={2024}, month={Apr} }
 @inproceedings{cole_anson_2024, title={Out with the Old: Reconstructing Cognitive Models of Writing when AI Intervenes}, booktitle={ways2write \(w2w)/, EARLI SIG Writing}, author={Cole, K. and Anson, C.}, year={2024}, month={Jun} }
 @inproceedings{cole_2024, title={Participant: Building the Two-Way Street: A Guide for Two-Year/Four-Year College Writing Program Partnerships}, booktitle={Watson Conference 2024}, author={Cole, K.}, year={2024}, month={Feb} }
 @misc{moreland_lee_cole_2023, title={(E)merging Expertise: Multivocal, Multimodal Preparation and Development of Graduate Teaching Assistants in Writing Programs}, ISBN={9781646424160}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.7330/9781646424184.c002}, DOI={10.7330/9781646424184.c002}, journal={Professionalizing Multimodal Composition}, publisher={Utah State University Press}, author={Moreland, Kelly and Lee, Sarah Henderson and Cole, Kirsti}, year={2023}, month={Jun}, pages={43–60} }
 @misc{hassel_cole_giordano_2023, title={A Faculty Guidebook for Effective Shared Governance and Service in Higher Education}, ISBN={9781003257974}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003257974}, DOI={10.4324/9781003257974}, abstractNote={A Faculty Guidebook for Effective Shared Governance and Service in Higher Education bridges the gap between training and work experience, offering a blueprint for academic workers' effective participation in service and governance in higher education. Unpacking skills of problem solving, critical analysis, politicking, negotiation, coalition building, and emotional labor, this book provides flexible, adaptable strategies that are relevant across institutional settings and that draw from research, experience, and multiple perspectives. The principles in the book will guide faculty in developing policies and implementing practices to better serve students, colleagues, communities, and the larger mission of postsecondary education. With an emphasis on shared governance and committee service that advances equity, inclusion, access, and justice, this book pushes back on the view that service is not worth our time and offers specific recommendations for doing governance work effectively. Chapters provide strategies for policy development, implementation, and assessment, as well as tools for navigating common roadblocks to accomplishing sustainable and progressive faculty leadership. This accessible book demystifies a critical part of the academic workload, and is designed for instructors, faculty, and academic advisors at any stage of their career who want to advocate for and create better conditions in higher education.}, publisher={Routledge}, author={Hassel, Holly and Cole, Kirsti and Giordano, Joanne}, year={2023}, month={Jun} }
 @inbook{renegar_cole_2023, title={Challenges to Neoliberal Parenting and The Rise of the Ideal Stepmother}, url={https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003311799-20}, DOI={10.4324/9781003311799-20}, abstractNote={While the wicked stepmother stereotype continues to persist, the current political moment also presents us with a new image of the stepmother in the figure of First Lady Jill Biden. Biden serves as an exemplar of the “ideal stepmother” because she fills the role of a deceased mother, practices intensive mothering, and deliberately obscures her status as a stepmother. Renegar and Cole argue that rather than stepmothers embodying the destruction of the nuclear family, they show us another way to parent. However, even the language used to normalize stepmothering is caught up in and fraught with the same social and ideological contradictions that are so present in the wicked stepmother archetype. This chapter explores an emerging version of stepmothering that attempts to, and perhaps successfully does move past the age-old trope of wickedness. They call this the Ideal Stepmother and see it embodied in the way that First Lady Dr. Jill Biden was introduced to the public at the Democratic National Convention in 2019.}, author={Renegar, Valerie and Cole, Kirsti}, year={2023}, month={Jan} }
 @inbook{cole_giordano_hassel_2023, title={Conclusion}, url={https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003257974-8}, DOI={10.4324/9781003257974-8}, author={Cole, Kirsti and Giordano, Joanne Baird and Hassel, Holly}, year={2023}, month={Jun} }
 @inbook{cole_giordano_hassel_2023, title={Conflicts in Shared Governance and Policy Development}, url={https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003257974-7}, DOI={10.4324/9781003257974-7}, author={Cole, Kirsti and Giordano, Joanne Baird and Hassel, Holly}, year={2023}, month={Jun} }
 @inproceedings{cole_henderson lee_2023, title={Critical Friendship as Literacy Practice: Reconceptualizing a U.S. First-Year Writing Program}, booktitle={Writing Research Across Borders}, author={Cole, K. and Henderson Lee, S.}, year={2023}, month={Feb} }
 @inbook{cole_giordano_hassel_2023, title={Developing Effective, Equitable, and Transparent Policies}, url={https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003257974-4}, DOI={10.4324/9781003257974-4}, author={Cole, Kirsti and Giordano, Joanne Baird and Hassel, Holly}, year={2023}, month={Jun} }
 @inbook{cole_giordano_hassel_2023, title={Doing Governance Work}, url={https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003257974-3}, DOI={10.4324/9781003257974-3}, author={Cole, Kirsti and Giordano, Joanne Baird and Hassel, Holly}, year={2023}, month={Jun} }
 @inbook{cole_giordano_hassel_2023, title={Engaging in Shared Governance Work to Support Educational Opportunities}, url={https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003257974-5}, DOI={10.4324/9781003257974-5}, author={Cole, Kirsti and Giordano, Joanne Baird and Hassel, Holly}, year={2023}, month={Jun} }
 @inbook{cole_giordano_hassel_2023, title={Introduction}, url={https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003257974-1}, DOI={10.4324/9781003257974-1}, author={Cole, Kirsti and Giordano, Joanne Baird and Hassel, Holly}, year={2023}, month={Jun} }
 @inbook{renegar_cole_2023, title={Introduction: Resisting Rhetorics of Mothering, Intensive Mothering, and Biological Determinism}, url={https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003311799-1}, DOI={10.4324/9781003311799-1}, abstractNote={This chapter investigates the way that new rhetorics of mothering can expand the realm of maternal caregivers beyond the biological definitions of motherhood. It is important to note that when scholarship refers to "mothers," particularly intensive mothers, motherhood is exclusionary. Many women do not have access to the social archetype of mother because of their race, nationality, religion, class, skin color, or gender identity. And of course, it is paramount to acknowledge the lasting resistance to intensive mothering. While motherhood is both contextual and contingent, the dominant and paradoxical portrayal of mothers is both authoritative and undermining. In the United States, however, intensive mothering has become the prevailing cultural expectation for mothers. In refiguring motherhood, the authors call the biological characteristics associated with motherhood into question and open up space for different versions of motherhood to emerge. The chapter also presents an overview of the concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book.}, author={Renegar, Valerie and Cole, Kirsti}, year={2023}, month={Jan} }
 @book{cole_renegar_2023, title={Refiguring Motherhood Beyond Biology}, ISBN={9781003311799}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003311799}, DOI={10.4324/9781003311799}, publisher={Routledge}, author={Cole, Kirsti and Renegar, Valerie}, year={2023}, month={Jan} }
 @inbook{cole_giordano_hassel_2023, title={Shared Governance}, url={https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003257974-2}, DOI={10.4324/9781003257974-2}, author={Cole, Kirsti and Giordano, Joanne Baird and Hassel, Holly}, year={2023}, month={Jun} }
 @inbook{cole_giordano_hassel_2023, title={Strategies for Implementing and Assessing Change}, url={https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003257974-6}, DOI={10.4324/9781003257974-6}, author={Cole, Kirsti and Giordano, Joanne Baird and Hassel, Holly}, year={2023}, month={Jun} }
 @inproceedings{cole_2022, title={Equity and Access in Graduate Education: Teaching Graduate Students to Teach Online}, booktitle={Conference on College Composition and Communication}, author={Cole, K.}, year={2022}, month={Mar} }
 @inproceedings{cole_renegar_2022, title={Finding Place: Neoliberal Parenting and the Rise of the Ideal Stepmother}, booktitle={National Communication Association}, author={Cole, K. and Renegar, V.}, year={2022}, month={Nov} }
 @inproceedings{cole_renegar_2021, title={Interrogating Rhetorical Futures of Parenthood: Stepmothers, Trans Mothers, and Alternative Pathways to Conception}, booktitle={National Communication Association}, author={Cole, K. and Renegar, V.}, year={2021}, month={Nov} }
 @inproceedings{cole_renegar_2021, title={Jill Biden, Resistance, and Stepmothering: Resilience in the Neoliberal Landscape}, booktitle={Southern States Communication Association}, author={Cole, K. and Renegar, V.}, year={2021}, month={Apr} }
 @misc{hassel_cole_2021, title={Transformations: Change Work across Writing Programs, Pedagogies, and Practices}, ISBN={9781646421411}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.7330/9781646421428}, DOI={10.7330/9781646421428}, publisher={Utah State University Press}, author={Hassel, Holly and Cole, Kristi}, year={2021}, month={Dec} }
 @book{academic labor beyond the college classroom_2019, url={https://www.routledge.com/Academic-Labor-Beyond-the-College-Classroom-Working-for-Our-Values/Hassel-Cole/p/book/9780367313227}, journal={Routledge Press}, year={2019}, month={Dec} }
 @inbook{bivens_cole_koerber_2019, title={Activism by accuracy: Women's health and hormonal birth control}, url={http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85082639298&partnerID=MN8TOARS}, booktitle={Women's Health Advocacy: Rhetorical Ingenuity for the 21st Century}, author={Bivens, K.M. and Cole, K. and Koerber, A.}, year={2019}, pages={163–176} }
 @book{no body is disinterested: the discursive materiality of composition in the university_2019, year={2019} }
 @inproceedings{cole_renegar_2019, title={Old Stereotypes, Worn Metaphors, Outdated Fairy Tales: Stepmother Self-Help Books as (useless) Equipment for (Barely) Living}, booktitle={Rhetoric in Society 7}, author={Cole, K. and Renegar, V.}, year={2019}, month={Sep} }
 @article{bivens_cole_heilig_2019, title={The Activist Syllabus as Technical Communication and the Technical Communicator as Curator of Public Intellectualism}, volume={29}, ISSN={1057-2252 1542-7625}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2019.1635211}, DOI={10.1080/10572252.2019.1635211}, abstractNote={Recently, educators have created crowdsourced syllabi using social media. Activist syllabi are digitally circulated public collections of knowledge and knowledge-making about events and social movements. As technical communicators, we can function as curators of public intellectualism by providing accessibility and usability guidance for these activist syllabi in collaboration with activist syllabi creators. In turn, technical communicators can work with syllabi creators as a coalitional social justice strategy to enhance the circulation of these activist syllabi.}, number={1}, journal={Technical Communication Quarterly}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Bivens, Kristin Marie and Cole, Kirsti and Heilig, Leah}, year={2019}, month={Jul}, pages={70–89} }
 @article{renegar_cole_2019, title={“Evil Is Part of the Territory”: Inventing the Stepmother in Self-Help Books}, volume={42}, ISSN={0749-1409 2152-999X}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2019.1660745}, DOI={10.1080/07491409.2019.1660745}, abstractNote={Abstract The “wicked stepmother” is a popular cultural commonplace, but when women become stepmothers, many find themselves trapped by the cliche with few resources to navigate or resist it. In this article, we examine the rhetoric of self-help books, one of the few print genres aimed at stepmothers. We argue that these texts reify a particular identity by perpetuating cultural stereotypes, reinforcing negative connotations about stepmothers, and providing inadequate solutions to common issues that arise as a result. The books reinscribe the primacy of biological mothering and relegate stepmothers to a secondary status at the same time as they subject stepmothers to the contradictory expectations of intensive mothering. The privilege of motherhood is granted, deflected, and denied across these advice books. We seek to move beyond the negative expectations of this common parenting role and point to the inadequacies of the solutions offered in self-help books to expand and diversify the visibility of and possibilities for alternative familial configurations.}, number={4}, journal={Women's Studies in Communication}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Renegar, Valerie R. and Cole, Kirsti K.}, year={2019}, month={Oct}, pages={511–533} }
 @inproceedings{cole_2018, title={Creating Collectivity in the Neoliberal Academy: The Case for a Transinstitutional Feminist Collaborative}, booktitle={18th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference “Reinventing Rhetoric}, author={Cole, K.}, year={2018}, month={May} }
 @inproceedings{cole_2018, title={Evil is Part of the Territory:” Inventing the Stepmother in Self-Help Books}, booktitle={18th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference “Reinventing Rhetoric.}, author={Cole, K.}, year={2018}, month={May} }
 @inbook{renegar_lowrey_cole_2018, place={New York}, title={Feminist Comedy’s Blond Badass: Amy Schumer and the Limits of White Feminism}, booktitle={Women, Feminism, and Pop Politics: From "Bitch" to "Badass" and Beyond}, publisher={Peter Lang}, author={Renegar, Valerie R. and Lowrey, Lacy and Cole, Kirsti}, editor={Anderson, Karrin VasbyEditor}, year={2018}, pages={99–118} }
 @inbook{cole_2018, place={London}, title={Transgressing the Digital Terrain: Humor in Feminist Responses to Trolling}, ISBN={9781351209793}, booktitle={Transgressing Feminist Theory and Discourse}, publisher={Routledge}, author={Cole, K.}, editor={Manning, Jimmie and Dunn, JenniferEditors}, year={2018} }
 @article{schomberg_cole_2017, title={Hush...The Dangers of Silence in the Academic Library}, url={http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2017/hush-the-dangers-of-silence-in-academic-libraries}, journal={in the Library with a Lead Pipe}, author={Schomberg, Jessica and Cole, Kirsti}, year={2017}, month={Apr} }
 @book{cole_hassel_schell_2017, title={Remodeling shared governance: Feminist decision making and resistance to academic neoliberalism}, url={http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85028719695&partnerID=MN8TOARS}, DOI={10.4324/9781315523217}, journal={Surviving Sexism in Academia: Strategies for Feminist Leadership}, author={Cole, K. and Hassel, H. and Schell, E.E.}, year={2017}, pages={13–28} }
 @book{surviving sexism in academia_2017, url={https://www.routledge.com/Surviving-Sexism-in-Academia-Strategies-for-Feminist-Leadership/Cole-Hassel/p/book/9781138696846}, journal={Routledge Press}, year={2017}, month={Jun} }
 @inproceedings{cole_2017, title={Teaching Methods in Rhetoric and Composition: The Ethics of Feminist Praxis as Teacher Research}, booktitle={11th Biennial Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference “Rhetorics, Rights, Revolutions}, author={Cole, K.}, year={2017}, month={Oct} }
 @article{bivens_cole_2017, title={The Grotesque Protest in Social Media as Embodied, Political Rhetoric}, volume={42}, ISSN={0196-8599 1552-4612}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0196859917735650}, DOI={10.1177/0196859917735650}, abstractNote={ The grotesque protest—emboldened through social media—employs the body’s fluids to push back against attempts to legislate bodies. Although social media use is commonly understood as engaging audience members who share ideological frames, it can instead diversify protest networks and encourage discourse. Social media provides individuals opportunities to resist attempts to control bodies and to reinsert individuals’ voices in political discourse aimed to exclude those bodies. The body functions as the modality in which the communicative act occurs, and the body’s fluids function as the medium for inventing disruptive, grotesque protest strategies. Activists such as Rupi Kaur, The Satanic Temple’s Jex Blackmore, and those using Twitter hashtags #periodsforPence and #PEEOTUS use bodily fluids and tissues to emphasize resistance to political movements attempting to control and legislate bodies. The protest campaigns show that the grotesque can be an effective tool for opening space, transgressing boundaries, demanding attention, and equalizing differential political power relations. }, number={1}, journal={Journal of Communication Inquiry}, publisher={SAGE Publications}, author={Bivens, Kristin Marie and Cole, Kirsti}, year={2017}, month={Oct}, pages={5–25} }
 @article{bivens_cole_2017, title={The Grotesque Protest in Social Media as Embodied, Political Rhetoric}, DOI={0196859917735650}, journal={Journal of Communication Inquiry}, author={Bivens, Kristin Marie and Cole, Kirsti}, year={2017}, month={Oct} }
 @inproceedings{cole_2016, title={Collaboration and Convergence: Writing Groups, Retreats, Coaches, and Accountability Circles}, booktitle={2016 Western States Communication Association Conference}, author={Cole, K.}, year={2016}, month={Feb} }
 @inproceedings{cole_2016, title={Monsters Like Us: Revisiting Progress in Penny Dreadful Dr. Frankenstein and His Creature}, booktitle={Victorians Like Us III Conference: Progress: A Blessing or A Curse?}, author={Cole, K.}, year={2016}, month={Oct} }
 @inbook{kirsti_renegar_2016, place={Bradford, Ontario}, title={The Wicked Stepmother Online: Maternal Identity and Personal Narrative in Social Media}, ISBN={9781772580822}, booktitle={Taking the Village Online: Mothers, Motherhood, and Social Media}, publisher={Demeter Press}, author={Kirsti, Cole and Renegar, Valerie}, editor={Arnold, Lorin Basden and Martin, Betty AnnEditors}, year={2016} }
 @inproceedings{cole_2016, title={The “Wicked Stepmother”: Changing Maternal Identity and Transforming Personal Narrative}, booktitle={17th Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference “Rhetoric & Change.”}, author={Cole, K.}, year={2016}, month={May} }
 @inproceedings{cole_2016, title={Transgressing the Digital Terrain: Humor in Feminist Responses to Trolling}, volume={IL}, booktitle={39th Annual Meeting of the Organization of Communication, Language, & Gender “TRANS*GRESSIONS”}, author={Cole, K.}, year={2016}, month={Oct}, pages={13–16} }
 @article{'it's like she's eager to be verbally abused': twitter, trolls, and_2015, year={2015} }
 @article{multimodality in composition, rhetoric, and english studies: praxis and practicalities_2015, year={2015} }
 @inproceedings{cole_2015, title={Stepmonsters: Remixing the Rhetoric of Stepmotherhood}, booktitle={10th Biennial Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference}, author={Cole, K.}, year={2015}, month={Oct} }
 @article{cole_2015, title={“It's Like She's Eager to be Verbally Abused”: Twitter, Trolls, and (En)Gendering Disciplinary Rhetoric}, volume={15}, ISSN={1468-0777 1471-5902}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2015.1008750}, DOI={10.1080/14680777.2015.1008750}, abstractNote={Commonplaces about feminists, about women's rights, bodies, and rhetoric participate in a cycle of violence and consciousness-raising. This paper articulates the particular way in which violent ant...}, number={2}, journal={Feminist Media Studies}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Cole, Kirsti K.}, year={2015}, month={Feb}, pages={356–358} }
 @book{feminist challenges or feminist rhetorics? locations, scholarship, discourse_2014, url={https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-4438-5501-3}, journal={Cambridge Scholars Press}, year={2014}, month={Mar} }
 @inproceedings{cole_2014, title={Shifting a Culture: Writing, WAC, and Assessment}, booktitle={13th International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference}, author={Cole, K.}, year={2014}, month={Jun} }
 @inproceedings{cole_2014, title={Stepmonsters: Stepmothers, Labor, and the Rhetoric of Motherhood}, booktitle={National Women’s Studies Association Conference}, author={Cole, K.}, year={2014}, month={Nov} }
 @inproceedings{cole_2013, title={"It’s Been a Weird Week:” Kairos in the 21st Century}, booktitle={Nineteenth Biennial Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric}, author={Cole, K.}, year={2013}, month={Jul} }
 @inproceedings{cole_2013, title={"Remember, Baby Units, register your uterus by Friday to retain your voting privileges:” A Brief History of the Womb as a Rhetorical Trope}, booktitle={Contemporary Rhetorical Citizenship: Purposes, Practices, Perspectives, Rhetoric in Society 4}, author={Cole, K.}, year={2013}, month={Jan} }
 @book{sisyphus rolls on: reframing women's ways of 'making it' in rhetoric and composition_2013, year={2013} }
 @book{(post)modern psychoanalysis: a re-vis(ion)ing of edgar allan poe_2008, year={2008} }
 @article{of being and passing away: performativity and women's activist rhetoric_2008, year={2008} }
 @article{webb_cole_skeen_2007, title={Feminist Social Projects: Building Bridges between Communities and Universities}, volume={69}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/ce20075848}, DOI={10.2307/25472208}, abstractNote={up by theorists.1 However, a common critique is that feminists in the academy do not make their theories practical because of their unwilling ness to engage with audiences outside the ivory tower, bell hooks argues that al though there is a need to translate ideas to such audiences, university professors fear their work will not be valued by academics if it is presented in a way that makes it accessible to a wider audience (111). While theoretical investigations in themselves help us analyze current power relations, the inability to connect aca demic theories and community practices severely limits the impact that our cri tiques can have on societal structures?including those of the itself. With its emphasis on community engagement, service-learning has a history of building bridges between universities and the communities in which they are lo cated. Interestingly enough, while feminism has been critiqued as overly theoretical and abstract, service-learning has often been seen as a set of atheoretical practices. This perception, however, is not accurate. While older service-learning projects posited the student as knower and the members of the community as the other}, number={3}, journal={College English}, author={Webb, Patricia and Cole, Kirsti and Skeen, Thomas}, year={2007}, month={Jan}, pages={238–259} }
 @article{feminist social projects: building bridges between communities and universities_2007, year={2007} }