Michelle Grue

Dr. Michelle Grue’s interdisciplinary research in Education and Writing draws on Black feminist, digital and African American rhetorics, and critical race/anti-racist education theories to investigate diversity issues in academia. Her current research project is a digital and rhetorical analysis of Instagram hosted, Person of Color community-formed digital archives. She was co-lead in a joint study with Black studies and sociology to grade sociology PhD departments on how well they prepare their students to research and teach on issues of race and gender. Her dissertation research expanded and adapted that project in the context of writing, rhetoric, and composition PhD programs. Grue's master’s thesis explored how Black female faculty utilize the digital environment to mitigate isolation, share their research, and cultivate a national and international reputation. Michelle enjoys using her pedagogical and theoretical knowledge with the same diverse student population that inhabits the focus of her research. She recently earned her PhD in Education with a writing emphasis through the Girvetz Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). She is grateful to have become an Assistant Teaching Professor at UCSB, teaching in both the Writing Program and the College of Creative Studies.

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3720-7091
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mnpgrue
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-grue-595b8214/
Email: Mgrue@ucsb.edu