Brandee Easter
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Brandee Easter
Assistant Professor
Digital rhetoric, software studies, feminist media studies
Brandee Easter’s research focuses on how bodies are imagined, constructed, and experienced in relationship to technology. Working from rhetorical studies, she explores how arguments are made about, with, and in technology with the goal to better understand discourses technological objectivity. Her current book project explores this through case studies in esoteric programming languages, which are creative projects that test the boundaries of what computational expression can be. Her second book project, co-authored with Christa J. Olson, brings these interests in technology and media to argue for a more capacious understanding of “the visual” within rhetorical studies. On Visual Rhetoric, which received the University of Michigan Press/Sweetland Publication Prize in Digital Rhetoric, argues that visuality must include not only visual objects, but also intangible images, visual technologies, and the cognitive-physical act of seeing.
Education
- PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- MA, University of Alabama
- BA, University of Alabama
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Publications
Books
On Visual Rhetoric, co-authored with Christa J. Olson. Digital book. Winner of the 2022 University of Michigan Press/Sweetland Publication Prize in Digital Rhetoric. Forthcoming March 2026.
Articles
“Fully Human, Fully Machine: Rhetorics of Digital Disembodiment.” Rhetoric Review, 39.2, 2020, pp. 202-215.
“‘Feminist_brevity_in_light_of_masculine_long-windedness’: Code, Space, and Online Misogyny.” Feminist Media Studies, 18.4, July 2018, pp. 675–85.
Book Chapters
“Research as Listening: Toward a Feminist Sonic Pedagogy,” co-authored with Meg M. Marquardt.
Amplifying Soundwriting Pedagogies: Integrating Sound into Rhetoric and Writing. Eds. Kyle D. Stedman, Courtney S. Danforth, and Michael J. Faris. WAC Clearinghouse, 2021.
“Made Not Only By Me: Co-authoring a Children’s Book with Text and Image AI Generators.” TextGenEd: Teaching with Text Generation Technologies. Eds. Annette Vee, Tim Laquintano, and Carly Schnitzler. WAC Clearinghouse, 2023.