Assistant Professor in Emergent Media, Humanities
- PhD, Purdue University
Biography
Through my interdisciplinary scholarship Dr. Wendy K. Z. Anderson seeks to use past research to develop theory and forward applied scholarship in the areas of identity, rhetoric, and power. She seeks to understand poststructural and postmodernist expressions of identity/ies to explain how people shape meaning from their experiences to influence the communities we live in. Her scholarship engages the contextual spaces of the Interweb, gaming, and mobile devices. She delves further into topics such as prosthesis, interface, literacy, disciplinary mechanisms, agency, activism, and affinity building. She values multiple research approaches and methods, but rely heavily on rhetorical and qualitative approaches due to the questions she studies.
She understands scholarship as a process of responding to the contexts she encounters. As part of academic dialogue, she intends her work to challenge and inspire others to continue their academic journeys; specifically in the areas of identity, rhetoric, and power that continue to shape people's physical and online lives.
Currently she is working to publish a co-authored, interdisciplinary work with Juliette Ludeker in Games and Culture as well as a book focused on racism in online spaces. Her work has also appeared in Women and Language.