Gale Coskan-Johnson

Gale Coskan-Johnson is an Associate Professor in the English Language & Literature department at Brock University, with an affiliation in the MA in Social Justice and Equity Studies program. She holds a PhD in Composition and Cultural Rhetoric from Syracuse University, an MA in TESOL from Northern Arizona University, and a BA in History from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Her research focuses on the rhetorical entanglements of sovereign power and transnational migration, with a particular interest in public/official texts (e.g., FOIA documents) and their impact on immigration discourses. Current projects include analyzing tensions in national/international migration narratives and exploring discourses of illegality and sovereignty in global contexts.

Teaching areas include Writing and Rhetoric, with supervisions welcomed in rhetorical studies, border studies, transnational migration, human rights, transnational feminism, and postcolonial studies. Her work bridges rhetorical analysis with critical legal studies, cultural critique, and transnational frameworks.