Deidre Garriott

Deidre Garriott is an Instructor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the McCausland College of Arts and Sciences, University of South Carolina. She holds a Ph.D. in Rhetoric, Writing, and Linguistics from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her office is located in Byrnes 703, and she can be contacted via email or phone.

Research Focus: Garriott specializes in cultural rhetorics, public memory, and decolonial frameworks. Her work critically examines how racism and nationalism shape historical narratives, particularly through:

• Analysis of erasure in public memorials (e.g., Charles Towne Landing's marginalized Kiawah artifacts)
• Intersections of race, gender, and power in pedagogical spaces
• Decolonial approaches to writing center administration
• World War II memory politics in Southern U.S. institutions

Publication Trends: Her scholarship demonstrates consistent focus on rhetorical analysis of cultural phenomena, with recurring themes in:

• Social justice in academic spaces (writing centers, pedagogy)
• Fan culture and media representation (Disney, Hunger Games)
• Public memory and racial erasure
• Digital literacy and multimodal composition

Garriott frequently employs interdisciplinary lenses blending rhetoric, cultural studies, and critical theory.