Megan Schoettler
- Assistant Professor of Professional and Technical Writing
- Department: English
- Research Cluster: English, Rhetoric, Writing & Literary Studies
- Institution: West Chester University of Pennsylvania
- Email: MSchoettler@wcupa.edu
Education
- Ph.D. English, Composition and Rhetoric. Miami University, 2022
- MA English, Composition and Rhetoric. Miami University, 2017
- Bachelor of Arts in English Education. York College of Pennsylvania, 2014
Research Interests
Feminist Rhetorics and Literacy PracticesProfessional and Technical WritingComposition PedagogySocial Justice Activism and AdvocacyCommunity-Engaged ResearchTeacher Preparation and SupportUndergraduate Research
Opportunities
Work Study Positions Available: No
Grant Funded Positions Available: No
Course-Credit Research Opportunities Available: No
Volunteer Research Positions Available: No
Open to Faculty Mentoring: Yes
Biography
Dr.Megan Schoettler (she/her) studies feminist rhetorics and literacy practices, professional writing, affect, and writing pedagogies. She values community-engaged research, and her publications appear in peer reviewed journals and books, including Computers and Composition, Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry, the Naylor Report on Undergraduate Research in Writing Studies, and Standing at the Threshold: Working Through Liminality in the Composition and Rhetoric TAship
List of Publications
- Allison, Lydia, Salma Kalim, Christopher Maggio, and Megan Schoettler. “Making Graduate Student CER Practices Visible: Navigating the Double-Binds of Identities and Networks.” Communication Design Quarterly. Volume 11 Issue 2, June 2023.
Schoettler, Megan. “‘Make your feed work for you’: Tactics of Feminist Affective Resistance on Social Media.” Computers and Composition, vol. 67, 2022.
Schoettler, Megan. Review of Who's Laughing Now?: Feminist Tactics in Social Media, by Jenny Sundén and Susanna Paasonen. Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry, vol. 2 no. 3, 2021.
Schoettler, Megan and Elizabeth Saur. “Beyond ‘Good Teacher’/’Bad Teacher’: Generative Self-Efficacy as a Reframing of the Composition and Rhetoric TAship.” Standing at the Threshold: Working Through Liminality in the Composition and Rhetoric TAship, Editors William J Macauley Jr, Leslie R. Anglesey, Brady Edwards, Kathryn M. Lambrecht, and Phillip Lovas. University Press of Colorado. 2021.
Downs, Doug, Laurie McMillan, Megan Schoettler and Patricia Roberts-Miller. “Circulation: Undergraduate Research as Consequential Publicness.” Naylor Report on Undergraduate Research in Writing Studies. Editors Dominic DelliCarpini, Jenn Fishman, and Jane Greer, Parlor Press. 2020.
