Lisa L. Phillips
Email: lisa.phillips@ttu.edu
Dr. Lisa L. Phillips’s research interests include environmental, Indigenous, and intersectional feminist rhetorics at intersection with sensation and embodiment. She is a faculty affiliate in the Climate Center and Women's & Gender Studies programs. She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetorical theory, history, and analysis, technical communication, sensory rhetorics, multimodal composition, human-centered artificial intelligence, and professional writing.Her interdisciplinary research focuses primarily on socio-environmental issues as these emerge in the public sphere through protestsregarding deteriorating environmental conditions, withparticular attention to the disproportionate effects of environmental change on historically marginalized communities.
For more information about Lisa's research, teaching, and service visit: https://lisalouphillips.wordpress.com/Ph.D. Illinois State University
Published Books
Phillips, L. L., Warren-Riley, S., & Bates, J. (Eds.). (2024). Grassroots activisms: Public rhetorics in localized contexts. The Ohio State University Press. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/87743
Phillips, L. L. (Forthcoming 2025). Olfactory rhetoric: Sniffing Out Environmental Problems. The Ohio State University Press. https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814215937.html
Published Book Chapters & Articles
Phillips, L. L. (Forthcoming 2026). Reeking revelations: How olfaction informs rhetorical processes in environmental injustice. In S. Ceraso & J. Stone (Eds.), Sensory rhetorics. Penn State Press.
Phillips, Lisa L. (2025). Deploying design justice in environmental injustice settings. In J. Jiang & J. Tham (Eds.), Designing for social justice: Community-engaged approaches to technical and professional communication (pp.34–49). Routledge.
Phillips, L. L. (2025). Teaching tactics that intervene and resist matters of climate catastrophe. In J. Everett & R. Mayo (Eds.),Teaching writing the age of catastrophic climate change (pp. 203–222). Lexington Press.
Warren-Riley, S., Bates, J., & Phillips, L. L. (2024). Valuing, learning from, and amplifying grassroots activisms. In L. L. Phillips, S. Warren-Riley, & J. Bates (Eds.), Grassroots activisms: Public rhetorics in localized contexts (pp. 1–28). The Ohio State University Press.
Phillips, L. L., & DeLeon, R. (2022). Living testimonios: How Latinx graduate students persist and enact social justice within higher education. IEEE: Transactions in Professional Communication, 65(1), 197–212.
Phillips, L. L., Darby, K., & Phillips M. A. (2016). Mapping the environment with sensory data. In the trenches: National association of geoscience educators, 6(3), 5–10.
Phillips, L. L. (2015). Smellscapes, social justice, and olfactory perception. In A. T. Demo (Ed.), Rhetoric across borders (pp. 35–45). Parlor Press.
Phillips, L. L. (2012). Writing with tattoo ink: Composing that gets under the skin. Grassroots Writing Research Journal, 3(1), 15–21.
Articles & Book Chapters Under Review
Phillips, L. L. (Expected 2026). Am I obsolete before I even graduate?: Addressing the fear factor of generative AI in the college classroom. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2026(184).
Phillips, L. L. (Expected 2027). Positionality takes a seat at the kitchen table. In K. Acosta, et al. (Eds.), Storied practices: Positionality in writing studies. University Press of Colorado.
Published NSF-Funded Teaching Modules
Darby, K., Phillips, L. L., & Phillips, M. (2017). Unit 1: Data set analysis. In A. Egger (Ed.), Mapping the environment with sensory perception. Science Education Resource Center. https://serc.carleton.edu/152677.
Phillips, L. L., Darby, K., Phillips, M. (2017). Unit 2: Sensory log and holistic reflection. In A. Egger (Ed.), Mapping the environment with sensory perception. Science Education Resource Center. https://serc.carleton.edu/152689.
Phillips, M., Darby, K., & Phillips, L. L. (2017). Unit 3: Sensory data collection. In A. Egger (Ed.), Mapping the environment with sensory perception. Science Education Resource Center. https://serc.carleton.edu/152695.
Phillips, L. L., Darby, K., Phillips, M. (2017). Unit 4: Case study analysis. In A. Egger (Ed.), Mapping the environment with sensory perception. Science Education Resource Center. https://serc.carleton.edu/152692.
Darby, K., Phillips, L. L., & Phillips, M. (2016). Unit 5: Sensory map development. In A. Egger (Ed.), Mapping the environment with sensory perception. Science Education Resource Center. https://serc.carleton.edu/152704.
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