Sarah Riddick| Worcester Polytechnic Institute

sriddick@wpi.edu

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Sarah Riddick

Humanities & Arts

Assistant Professor

Affiliated Department or Office

Humanities & Arts

Professional Writing

Writing & Rhetoric

Assistant Professor - Professional Communication

Education

PhD English (Area of Study: Rhetoric and Writing), University of Texas at Austin

MA Comparative Literature, University College London

BA English (minor in creative writing), The Honors College at Virginia Commonwealth University

BA Spanish, The Honors College at Virginia Commonwealth University

Research Interests

Rhetorical Theory

Digital Rhetorics and Cultures

Popular Culture

Social Media

Audience Studies

Composition Studies

Rhetorical Methods

Communication Studies

Writing Centers

Writing Program Administration

Scholarly Work

Riddick, Sarah. "Points of Contact Between Activism, Populism, and Fandom." Media and Communication, vol. 10, no. 4.

2022

Riddick, Sarah, and Rich Shivener. “Affective Spamming on Twitch: Rhetorics of an Emote-Only Audience in a Presidential Inauguration Livestream” Computers and Composition, vol. 64.

2022

Riddick, Sarah. “Students’ Social Media Disclosures: Reconsidering the Rhetorics of Whistleblowing.” Rhetoric Review, vol. 41, no. 4.

2022

Riddick, Sarah A. "Deliberative Drifting: A Rhetorical Field Method for Audience Studies on Social Media." Computers and Composition, vol. 54.

2019

Professional Highlights & Honors

Gerard A. Hauser Award

Rhetoric Society of America

News

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WPI Announces Faculty Promotions and Tenure Awards

March 01, 2023

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WPI Welcomes 19 New Faculty Members

October 20, 2020

Media Coverage

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Pittsburgh Post Gazette

WPI welcomes 19 full-time educators and researchers to its faculty for the 2020-21 academic year

More than 70 media outlets, including the Latin Trade , Pittsburgh Post Gazette, and the Oklahoman carried the news of WPI welcoming 19 full-time educators and researchers to its faculty for the 2020-21 academic year.