Jacqueline Rhodes

Jacqueline Rhodes is the Joan Negley Kelleher Centennial Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Texas at Austin, where she has been a faculty member since 2005. Her career spans over 30 years, including previous roles at Michigan State University and Cal State San Bernardino.

• Ph.D., University of Southern Mississippi
• M.A., University of Idaho
• B.A., University of Montana

Her research focuses on feminist and queer rhetorics, multimodal composition, and the intersections of embodiment, technology, and sexuality. She has co-authored award-winning works like Techne: Queer Meditations on Writing the Self and On Multimodality: New Media in Composition Studies, which explore queer theory in writing and digital practices.

Her recent projects include the documentary Once a Fury, profiling a 1970s lesbian separatist collective, and co-editing the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminist Rhetoric (2025). Her film work integrates feminist ethnography, allowing subjects to curate their own narratives through revision processes.

Key themes in her 10+ articles and handbook chapters include feminist historiography, queer digital spaces, and critical agency. Awards highlight her collaborative work with Jonathan Alexander, such as the 2023 CCCC Exemplar Award and multiple CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Awards for queer scholarship.

Rhodes advocates for "slow composition" as a pedagogical approach, emphasizing mindfulness in teaching and writing. As former editor of Rhetoric Society Quarterly (2020–2023), she prioritized developmental editing and collaborative authorship. Her current research leave involves a book on Shulamith Firestone's radical feminism and a film cycle I Am My Beloveds, reflecting on material relationships and feminist praxis.