December 8, 2021
Graduate

Elena Kalodner-Martin, a PhD candidate in the Composition and Rhetoric program, has recently published an article, “Identity, Agency, and Precarity: Considerations of Graduate Students in Technical Communication,” in Programmatic Perspectives, which she co-authored with Morgan Banville, Meghalee Das, Katlynne Davis, Allison Durazzi, Evelyn Dsouza, Emily Gresbrink, and Danielle Mollie Stambler. Programmatic Perspectives is the peer-reviewed journal of the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CTPSC).

The article explores graduate students’ precarity, to help consider issues of labor, citizenship, risk, and oppression, drawing attention to the conditions that shape their existence. The authors seek to open a conversation on the precarities of graduate students, and invite faculty and program administrators to join them in this conversation to act as allies in their ongoing work.

Kalodner-Martin is a current PhD candidate in Composition and Rhetoric. She is a Teaching Associate in the English Department, where she teaches courses on professional writing, technical communication, coding, and web design. Her dissertation theorizes user-generated healthcare content in online spaces as a form of technical and technological expertise.