Graduate Student
Contact Information
Biography
M.A., English: Rhetoric, Writing, & Linguistics, University of Tennessee, 2018
B.S. English as a Second Language (ESL) Education, Johnson University, 2016
B.A. English, Johnson University, 2016
B.A. Theology, Johnson University, 2016
In both my teaching and administrative work, I am interested in locating alternative relationships and knowledges writers foster when engaging in translations across genres, modalities, and language representations. My dissertation locates these relationships across trajectories of migration and literacy in contemporary Central Asia, including borderlands regions in Northern Kazakhstan, asking how we might attune our approach to transnational literacies to locate moments of friction and displacement generated via decolonial efforts and by both seismic and micro-moments of sociolinguistic and geopolitical change.
Awards
Chester Boeing Fritz International Research Grant, 2022
Mellon Collaborative Fellowship for Reaching New Publics, 2020-2022
Hermione & Louis Brown Publication Prize, University of Washington, 2020
Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship, U.S. Department of State, 2018-19, Kazakhstan
Council for Writing Program Administrators (CWPA) Research Grant, 2017-18
Research
Selected Research
- Wilson, J.A. (2023). Translation's Value to Queer Orientations to Technical Communication: On Claims to Interpretive Authority. Technical Communication and Social Justice.
- Wilson, J.A. & Portz, J.R. (2022). On the labor of writing transfer: Bodies and borderland discourses in translation. In K.P. Alexander, M. Davis, L.W. Mina, & R.P. Shepherd (Eds.), Multimodal composing and writing transfer. Logan, UT: Utah State UP.
- Wilson, J.A. & Soblo, H. (2020). Transfer and transformation in multilingual student writing. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 44(1), 1-13.
- Saenkhum, T. & Wilson, J. A. (2019). Navigating administrator-researcher roles: Developing recruitment strategies for conducting programmatic assessment with diverse undergraduate and graduate writers. In Ruecker, T. and Svihla, V. (Eds.), Navigating challenges in qualitative educational research: Research interrupted. (pp. 51-61). London: Routledge.
- Wilson, J.A. (In Press). Distributing the labor of translation in the context of graduate education in writing studies. In N. Bou Ayash and C.B. Kilfoil (Eds.), Translingual and transnational graduate education in rhetoric and composition. Boulder, CO: University of Colorado Press.
Courses Taught
Spring 2023
Autumn 2022
Autumn 2021
Spring 2021
Affiliations
Home Department
Professional Affiliations
Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS); GPSS Liaison to the Faculty Council for Academic Standards (FCAS)