Joseph Franklin
New York City College of Technology
Assistant Professor, English
Writing Center Director
Global Writing Studies, Ethnography, Transnational Writing Program Administration, Linguistic Justice, Inclusive Pedagogy, Professional Writing, Multimodal Composition, Comparative Rhetorics, Environmental Conservation
Contact: jfranklin.academic@gmail.com
Academic Publications
(2023). (En)countering monolingual, fast-capitalist comp/rhet: A transnational sensemaking of graduate education. Co-authored with Cousins, E.Y. & Way, A. In N. B. Ayash & C. Kilfoil (Eds.) Translingual and Transnational Graduate Education in Rhetoric and Composition.
(2022). Show your work(flow). In E. Cecil-Lemkin & J. Conrad (Eds.) Another Word; The Writing Center Blog: University of Wisconsin Madison. https://dept.writing.wisc.edu/blog/show-your-workflow/
(2019). The transnational underdog and institutional change: Stories from a U.K. writing center. WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, 44 (3-4), 10-16. https://wac.colostate.edu/docs/wln/v44/44.3-4.pdf
(2016). The messiness of writing – meet Joe Franklin. University of Southampton Library Blog. From https://unisouthamptonlibrary.wordpress.com/2016/04/28/the-messiness-of-writing-meet-joe-franklin/
Bio
Education and academic work, for me, has always meant moving across linguistic, socioeconomic, and racial spaces. First and foremost, as a teacher, I take up a call for inclusivity in my policies and practices every day. As a student and researcher, I have endeavored to hear and engage with diverse voices; as an administrator I have worked to make space for different identities in institutional programming; and as a person I have mobilized to new spaces and places to learn and grow.
Educational Background
2021
PhD English (Composition and Rhetoric)
University of Louisville
Dissertation: “Transnational Writing Program Administration: Mobility, Entanglement, Work”
Committee: Bruce Horner (Chair), Andrea Olinger, Frank Kelderman, Christiane Donahue
2015
MA English (Composition and Rhetoric)
Thesis: “Incongruity, Context, and Counter-Narrative: Challenging Assumptions about Multilingual Writers”
Committee: LuMing Mao (Chair), James Porter, Gabriele Bechtel
2010
BA English (Creative Writing)
Areas of Concentration: Creative Non-Fiction, Poetry
