Alisa Russell

Alisa Russell is an Assistant Professor of Writing in the Department of English at Wake Forest University. Her research examines rhetorical genre studies, writing across the curriculum, and public writing pedagogies.

Russell's work investigates how genre knowledge facilitates access to academic and public discourse communities, with recent studies exploring micro-analytical approaches to genre acquisition and decolonial frameworks for writing program development. Her methodological contributions include genre-based ethnographies and cross-institutional mentoring models.

She teaches courses in academic research writing, composition studies, and interdisciplinary writing. Russell has received multiple teaching and research awards including the Early Career Contribution Award from the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum.