Michelle McMullin

Michelle McMullin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at North Carolina State University. She holds a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from Purdue University (2019) and an M.A. in English from Western Washington University (2014). Her research focuses on distributed collaboration, equity in research teams, and constructive frameworks for sustainable academic work. She is affiliated with the Ph.D. in Communication, Rhetoric and Digital Media program.

Her work emphasizes ethical infrastructure design, inclusive team dynamics, and materialist approaches to collaborative research. Notable contributions include studies on iterative persona development for equity and constructive distributed work models. Teaching and advising focus on grant-writing for student professionalization.

Recent publications explore topics ranging from ethical infrastructure in distributed teams (2022–2025) to foundational evidence-based educational research (2010). Her work bridges rhetorical theory, digital media, and organizational studies.

No scientific awards are explicitly listed. Research interests align with the university’s focus on interdisciplinary collaboration and socially responsible scholarship.