Texas Tech University

Wilson Knight

Wilson is a third-year PhD student in the TCR program. His dissertation research engages the rhetorical dimensions of the human corpse as it moves through southern deathcare practices. In addition to working full-time as an eLearning developer at a two-year college, Wilson also maintains a freelance consulting business within the deathcare industry. 

Research Interests

Rhetoric of death(care), dying, and the human corpse

Rhetoric of memory, place, and space 

(New) materialisms, embodiment, and praxiography 

Education

Master of Arts in Teaching, Community College Education – English Concentration - Mississippi State University 

Bachelor of Arts in English - The University of Mississippi 

Conference Presentations

(De)Composing the Body: An Exploratory Study of Deathcare Documentation Practices in Mississippi – Conference on College Composition & Communication. Milwaukee, WI. March 25-28, 2020. Travel restricted due to COVID-19.  

De/Composing Otherness: Classic Monsters in First-Year Writing – Northeast Popular Culture Association Conference. Portsmouth, NH. November 15-16, 2019. Travel restricted due to COVID-19.  

“We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes”: Exploring the Nuances of Composition and Rhetoric in a Hitchcock-Themed First-Year Composition Course – Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference. Albuquerque, NM. February 20-23, 2018.  

Dismantling Inequality by Writing about Difference: Using Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children to Explore Peculiarity, Exploitation, and Otherness in a First-Year Writing Course – New Jersey College English Association Annual Conference. Newark, NJ. April 1, 2017.  

Diversity in Higher Education: Training New Leaders – PFLAG National Convention. Nashville, TN. October 16-18, 2015.  

Writing Center Pathologies and the Influence of Architecture – Southeastern Writing Centers Association Regional Conference. Greenville, NC. February 6-8, 2014. Panel.  

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PhD in Technical Communication & Rhetoric
Email: wilson.knight@ttu.edu