Megan Schoettler

Megan Schoettler
  • Assistant Professor of Professional and Technical Writing
  • Department: English
  • Institution: West Chester University of Pennsylvania
  • Email: MSchoettler@wcupa.edu

Education

  • Ph.D. English, Composition and Rhetoric. Miami University, 2022
  • MA English, Composition and Rhetoric. Miami University, 2017
  • Bachelor of Arts in English Education. York College of Pennsylvania, 2014

Research Interests

Feminist Rhetorics and Literacy PracticesProfessional and Technical WritingComposition PedagogySocial Justice Activism and AdvocacyCommunity-Engaged ResearchTeacher Preparation and SupportUndergraduate Research

Opportunities

Work Study Positions Available: No

Grant Funded Positions Available: No

Course-Credit Research Opportunities Available: No

Volunteer Research Positions Available: No

Biography

Dr.Megan Schoettler (she/her) studies feminist rhetorics and literacy practices, professional writing, affect, and writing pedagogies. She values community-engaged research, and her publications appear in peer reviewed journals and books, including Computers and Composition, Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry, the Naylor Report on Undergraduate Research in Writing Studies, and Standing at the Threshold: Working Through Liminality in the Composition and Rhetoric TAship

List of Publications

  • Allison, Lydia, Salma Kalim, Christopher Maggio, and Megan Schoettler. “Making Graduate Student CER Practices Visible: Navigating the Double-Binds of Identities and Networks.” Communication Design Quarterly. Volume 11 Issue 2, June 2023. Schoettler, Megan. “‘Make your feed work for you’: Tactics of Feminist Affective Resistance on Social Media.” Computers and Composition, vol. 67, 2022. Schoettler, Megan. Review of Who's Laughing Now?: Feminist Tactics in Social Media, by Jenny Sundén and Susanna Paasonen. Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry, vol. 2 no. 3, 2021. Schoettler, Megan and Elizabeth Saur. “Beyond ‘Good Teacher’/’Bad Teacher’: Generative Self-Efficacy as a Reframing of the Composition and Rhetoric TAship.” Standing at the Threshold: Working Through Liminality in the Composition and Rhetoric TAship, Editors William J Macauley Jr, Leslie R. Anglesey, Brady Edwards, Kathryn M. Lambrecht, and Phillip Lovas. University Press of Colorado. 2021. Downs, Doug, Laurie McMillan, Megan Schoettler and Patricia Roberts-Miller. “Circulation: Undergraduate Research as Consequential Publicness.” Naylor Report on Undergraduate Research in Writing Studies. Editors Dominic DelliCarpini, Jenn Fishman, and Jane Greer, Parlor Press. 2020.

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