Forthcoming from Utah State University Press, my monograph book—Anticapitalist Technology Design: Equitable Futures for Technology in Rhetoric and Composition—explores how capitalism rhetorically shapes technology design and how practitioners can design more equitable technologies for use in Rhetoric and Composition.
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In our contemporary moment, technology—its design, sale, and usage—is a site of urgent questions about whether we can use technology in socially just ways within our global capitalist society. Under capitalism, every key we press, search we conduct, and prompt we write implicates us within a global web of exploitation that has created vast economic disparities. How, then, are we to understand and use technologies to write, think, argue, and teach about equitable futures for our world?
In the field of Rhetoric and Composition, we are faced with these complicities when we choose to adopt new technologies in our classrooms, writing programs, and departments. How do we reckon with capitalist society’s empty promises of capitalist techno-utopia—and perhaps even our own technophobia—as we navigate the muddied waters of technology design and adoption? How do we make decisions about new technologies that are attentive to their potential impact on the lived experiences of marginalized peoples?
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Glotfelter, A. (forthcoming). Anticapitalist Technology Design: Equitable Futures for Technology in Rhetoric and Composition. Utah State University Press.
Glotfelter, A., Martin, C., Olejnik, M., Updike, A., & Wardle, E. (Eds.). (2022). Changing conceptions, changing practices: Innovating teaching across disciplines. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press.
Maher, J., Wardle, E., Glotfelter, A., Olejnik, M., & Chesher, W. (under review). Stewards vs profiteers: Research-based disciplinary interventions for the current existential threat to democracy.
Olejnik, M., Wardle, E., Maher, J., Chesher, W., & Glotfelter, A. (2023). Working with faculty partners to change conceptions of writing beyond university walls. The WAC Journal.
Coffey, K., Glotfelter, A., & Simmons, M. (2020). Dynamically responsive programmatic design: A framework for identifying pressures for change. Programmatic Perspectives, 11(2), 138–165.
Glotfelter, A. (2019). Algorithmic circulation: How content creators navigate the effects of algorithms on their work. Computers and Composition, 54.
Glotfelter, A., Updike, A., & Wardle, E. (2020). “Something invisible...has been made visible for me”: An expertise-based WAC seminar model grounded in theory and (cross) disciplinary dialogue. In L. E. Bartlett, S. L. Tarabochia, A. R. Olinger, & M. J. Marshall (Eds.), Diverse approaches to teaching, learning, and writing across the curriculum: IWAC at 25 (pp. 167–192).
(Winner of 2022 CWPA Outstanding Scholarship Award)
Manuscript Workshop Grant, 2022–2023, UAH Humanities Center
$9,000 to support development of monograph manuscript for publication.
Faculty Research Grant, 2022–2024, UAH Humanities Center
$2,859 to support development of equity dashboard for writing program administration.