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Alisa Russell

Assistant Professor, Writing

Contact

  • Office: C106 Tribble Hall
  • Phone: (336) 758-2242
  • Email:

Degrees

  • PhD, University of Kansas
  • MA, George Mason University
  • BA, Lee University

Area(s) of Interest

  • Rhetorical Genre Studies 
  • Writing Across the Curriculum 
  • Public Writing / Public Sphere Theories
  • Qualitative Research Methods 

Courses taught at WFU

  • ENG 703: Introduction to Composition Studies
  • WRI 350: Interdisciplinary Writing Minor Capstone
  • WRI 306: Writing as Access: Toward Socially Just Schools, Workplaces, and Governments
  • WRI 210: Exploring Academic Genres: Writing as Knowledge Creation
  • WRI 111: Writing Seminar: Writing as Public Action 

Selected Publications

  • Russell, Alisa. “Faculty Expectations for Expert vs. Upper-Level Undergraduate
    Academic Writing.” Across the Disciplines, forthcoming 2025.
  • Russell, Alisa. “Genre Access: Toward a Micro-Analytical Approach.” Written Communication, vol. 41, no. 2, April 2024.  
  • Comi, Dana, and Alisa Russell. “‘Another Draft.docx’: Two Seminar Papers’ Journey to Publication.” Revising Moves: Writing Stories of (Re)Making, edited by Allison D. Carr et al. UP of Colorado, February 2024.  
  • Russell, Alisa, and Tom Polk. “Expanding the WAC Network: The Cross-Institutional Mentoring Project.” Mentorship and Methodology: Reflections, Praxis, and Futures, edited by Leigh Gruwell and Charles Lesh. UP of Colorado, February 2024.  
  • Russell, Alisa. “Writing and the Teaching of WritingAcross Disciplines at Wake Forest University: Phase I Report.” Wake Forest University, Dec 2023. 
  • Harahap, Al, Federico Navarro, and Alisa Russell. “Imagining WAC’s Future: Coloniality, Diversity, and Sustainability.” Adapting the Past to Reimagine Possible Futures: Celebrating and Critiquing WAC at 50, edited by Megan J. Kelly, Heather M. Falconer, Caleb L. González, and Jill Dahlman. WAC Clearinghouse, May 2023. 
  • Russell, Alisa. “‘Expanding Communicative Possibilities’ in the Public Writing Classroom.” Composition Studies, vol. 50, no. 3, Fall 2022.
  • Russell, Alisa. “From Methodology to Method in Genre-Based Ethnographies.” Written Communication, vol. 39, no. 4, October 2022. 
  • Russell, Alisa. “Where Does Class Identity Belong? Genre Innovation as Bridge between Class Identity and Academic Discourses.” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, vol. 21, no. 1, Jan. 2021.
  • Polk, Tom, Alisa Russell, and Allie Sockwell. “Opportunity / Exploitation.” Symposium on the State of Graduate Study in Rhetoric and Composition. XChanges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Technical Communication, Rhetoric, and Writing Across the Curriculum, vol. 15., no. 1, May 2020.
  • LaFrance, Michelle, and Alisa Russell. “Preparing Writing Studies Graduate Students within Authentic WAC-Contexts: Research Methods Course/WAC Program Review Crossover Project as a Critical Site of Situated Learning.” The WAC Journal, vol. 29, Fall 2018, pp. 207-229.
  • Russell, Alisa LaDean. “The Politics of Academic Language: Towards a Framework for Analyzing Language Representations in FYC Textbooks.” Composition Forum, vol. 38, Spring 2018.

Grants & Awards

  • Graduate Faculty Excellence Award, Graduate Student Association, Wake Forest University. May 2024.
  • Summer Research Grant, College of Arts & Sciences, Wake Forest University. March 2024. $6,000.
  • Course Development Grant, Program of Leadership and Character, Wake Forest University. July 2023. $4,000.
  • Excellence in Advising Award, College of Arts & Sciences, Wake Forest University. May 2023.
  • Localize Your Course Summer Planning Grant, Mellon Foundation, Wake Forest University. May 2022. $3,000.
  • College Research Grant, College of Arts & Sciences, Wake Forest University. March 2022. $6,000.
  • Early Career Contribution to the Field Award, Association for Writing Across the Curriculum. August 2021. 

Additional Resources

Curriculum Vitae