This Standing Group of College Composition and Communication is made up of supportive scholars committed to studying the intersections of Writing, Pedagogy, and Social Class. We honor working-class professionals and students by promoting the classroom as a site for developing class consciousness with specific emphasis on writing and writing pedagogy. In so doing, we seek to make visible the voices, experiences, and (life) pedagogies of working-class students and academics. We invite attendees to come read, write, think, and invent a more inclusive university with us.
Standing Group Board Members
Axel Gonzalez, Co-Chair
Axel Gonzalez is an independent scholar and former adjunct instructor living in Guatemala. His research and work focuses on the role of the university in broader class conflict and on how teachers can practice truly counter-hegemonic pedagogy in their classrooms while working collectively with their fellow instructors in political action outside the classroom.
Dr. Jennifer Todd-Ferrell, Co-Chair
Jennifer Todd-Ferrell is the Writing Program Director at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa. Her research focuses on the intersections of the formation of writerly identity and other social identities, including socioeconomic class.
Nicole Jackson Wilson, Steering Committee
Nicole Jackson Wilson is a PhD candidate at Texas A&M University. Her dissertation project studies how working-class Black women academics construct their online identities and conceptualize their work as a form of online activism that has material effects beyond the digital world.
Nicole McNeal, Steering Committee
Nicole McNeal teaches writing at California State University, Sacramento and Folsom Lake College. She researches news media rhetoric and public knowledge, critical pedagogy in FYC, and class-focused digital literacy. She collects books on proletarian history and fiction and lives with her husband.
Contact Us
To be added to the SIG email list, please email jferrell@cornellcollege.edu.
Co-chairs can be reached at jferrell@cornellcollege.edu or axel.gonzalez@csueastbay.edu.
