Kirsti Cole

Cole, K., & Hassel, H. (2025). 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.

Cole, K., & Wagner, J. M. (2024). 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.

Cole, K., Renegar, V., & Sowards, S. (2024). 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.

Cole, K., & Renegar, V. (2024). 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.

Cole, K., & Anson, C. (2024). 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.

Cole, K. (2024). 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.

Moreland, K., Lee, S. H., & Cole, K. (2023). (E)merging Expertise: Multivocal, Multimodal Preparation and Development of Graduate Teaching Assistants in Writing Programs. https://doi.org/10.7330/9781646424184.c002

Hassel, H., Cole, K., & Giordano, J. (2023). A Faculty Guidebook for Effective Shared Governance and Service in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003257974

Renegar, V., & Cole, K. (2023). Challenges to Neoliberal Parenting and The Rise of the Ideal Stepmother. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003311799-20

Cole, K., Giordano, J. B., & Hassel, H. (2023). Conclusion. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003257974-8

Cole, K., Giordano, J. B., & Hassel, H. (2023). Conflicts in Shared Governance and Policy Development. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003257974-7

Cole, K., & Henderson Lee, S. (2023). 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.

Cole, K., Giordano, J. B., & Hassel, H. (2023). Developing Effective, Equitable, and Transparent Policies. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003257974-4

Cole, K., Giordano, J. B., & Hassel, H. (2023). Doing Governance Work. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003257974-3

Cole, K., Giordano, J. B., & Hassel, H. (2023). Engaging in Shared Governance Work to Support Educational Opportunities. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003257974-5

Cole, K., Giordano, J. B., & Hassel, H. (2023). Introduction. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003257974-1

Renegar, V., & Cole, K. (2023). Introduction: Resisting Rhetorics of Mothering, Intensive Mothering, and Biological Determinism. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003311799-1

Cole, K., & Renegar, V. (2023). Refiguring Motherhood Beyond Biology. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003311799

Cole, K., Giordano, J. B., & Hassel, H. (2023). Shared Governance. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003257974-2

Cole, K., Giordano, J. B., & Hassel, H. (2023). Strategies for Implementing and Assessing Change. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003257974-6

Cole, K. (2022). 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.

Cole, K., & Renegar, V. (2022). Finding Place: Neoliberal Parenting and the Rise of the Ideal Stepmother. National Communication Association. Presented at the National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA.

Cole, K., & Renegar, V. (2021). Interrogating Rhetorical Futures of Parenthood: Stepmothers, Trans Mothers, and Alternative Pathways to Conception. National Communication Association. Presented at the National Communication Association, Seattle, WA.

Cole, K., & Renegar, V. (2021). Jill Biden, Resistance, and Stepmothering: Resilience in the Neoliberal Landscape. Southern States Communication Association. Presented at the Southern States Communication Association, Greenville, SC.

Hassel, H., & Cole, K. (2021). Transformations: Change Work across Writing Programs, Pedagogies, and Practices. https://doi.org/10.7330/9781646421428

Academic Labor Beyond the College Classroom. (2019). In Routledge Press. Retrieved from https://www.routledge.com/Academic-Labor-Beyond-the-College-Classroom-Working-for-Our-Values/Hassel-Cole/p/book/9780367313227

Bivens, K. M., Cole, K., & Koerber, A. (2019). Activism by accuracy: Women's health and hormonal birth control. In Women's Health Advocacy: Rhetorical Ingenuity for the 21st Century (pp. 163–176). Retrieved from http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85082639298&partnerID=MN8TOARS

No Body is Disinterested: The Discursive Materiality of Composition in the University. (2019).

Cole, K., & Renegar, V. (2019). 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.

Bivens, K. M., Cole, K., & Heilig, L. (2019). The Activist Syllabus as Technical Communication and the Technical Communicator as Curator of Public Intellectualism. Technical Communication Quarterly, 29(1), 70–89. https://doi.org/10.1080/10572252.2019.1635211

Renegar, V. R., & Cole, K. K. (2019). “Evil Is Part of the Territory”: Inventing the Stepmother in Self-Help Books. Women's Studies in Communication, 42(4), 511–533. https://doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2019.1660745

Cole, K. (2018). 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.

Cole, K. (2018). 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.

Renegar, V. R., Lowrey, L., & Cole, K. (2018). 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.

Cole, K. (2018). Transgressing the Digital Terrain: Humor in Feminist Responses to Trolling. In J. Manning & J. Dunn (Eds.), Transgressing Feminist Theory and Discourse. London: Routledge.

Schomberg, J., & Cole, K. (2017). Hush...The Dangers of Silence in the Academic Library. In the Library with a Lead Pipe. Retrieved from http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2017/hush-the-dangers-of-silence-in-academic-libraries

Cole, K., Hassel, H., & Schell, E. E. (2017). Remodeling shared governance: Feminist decision making and resistance to academic neoliberalism. In Surviving Sexism in Academia: Strategies for Feminist Leadership (pp. 13–28). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315523217

Surviving Sexism in Academia. (2017). In Routledge Press. Retrieved from https://www.routledge.com/Surviving-Sexism-in-Academia-Strategies-for-Feminist-Leadership/Cole-Hassel/p/book/9781138696846

Cole, K. (2017). 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.

Bivens, K. M., & Cole, K. (2017). The Grotesque Protest in Social Media as Embodied, Political Rhetoric. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 42(1), 5–25. https://doi.org/10.1177/0196859917735650

Bivens, K. M., & Cole, K. (2017). The Grotesque Protest in Social Media as Embodied, Political Rhetoric. Journal of Communication Inquiry. https://doi.org/0196859917735650

Cole, K. (2016). 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.

Cole, K. (2016). 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.

Kirsti, C., & Renegar, V. (2016). 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.

Cole, K. (2016). 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.

Cole, K. (2016). 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.

'It's Like She's Eager to Be Verbally Abused': Twitter, Trolls, and. (2015).

Multimodality in Composition, Rhetoric, and English Studies: Praxis and Practicalities. (2015).

Cole, K. (2015). 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.

Cole, K. K. (2015). “It's Like She's Eager to be Verbally Abused”: Twitter, Trolls, and (En)Gendering Disciplinary Rhetoric. Feminist Media Studies, 15(2), 356–358. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2015.1008750

Feminist Challenges or Feminist Rhetorics? Locations, Scholarship, Discourse. (2014). In Cambridge Scholars Press. Retrieved from https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-4438-5501-3

Cole, K. (2014). 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.

Cole, K. (2014). 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.

Cole, K. (2013). "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.

Cole, K. (2013). "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.

Sisyphus Rolls On: Reframing Women's Ways of 'Making It' in Rhetoric and Composition. (2013).

(Post)Modern Psychoanalysis: A Re-Vis(ion)ing of Edgar Allan Poe. (2008).

Of Being and Passing Away: Performativity and Women's Activist Rhetoric. (2008).

Webb, P., Cole, K., & Skeen, T. (2007). Feminist Social Projects: Building Bridges between Communities and Universities. College English, 69(3), 238–259. https://doi.org/10.2307/25472208

Feminist Social Projects: Building Bridges between Communities and Universities. (2007).