Dr. Caitlin Allen

Dr. Caitlin Allen

Assistant Professor

Dr. Caitlin Burns Allen is an Assistant Professor in the English, Fine Arts, and Communications department. She earned her Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Louisville, where she served as an assistant director of the Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. She received her M.A. in Composition, Rhetoric, and English Studies from the University of Alabama. She guest edited a special issue of Across the Disciplines and the collection Unsettling Archival Research: Engaging Critical, Communal, and Digital Archives with Gesa E. Kirsch, Romeo García, and Walker Smith. Her work has appeared in Ethics and Representation in Feminist Rhetorical Inquiry, Writers: Craft & Context, and Peitho. Her research interests include the rhetoric of health and medicine, feminist methodologies, digital rhetorics, and archival research. As an instructor, Dr. Allen focuses on first-year writing, technical communication, and composition.

Degrees

Ph.D. Rhetoric and Composition (University of Louisville)
M.A. Composition, Rhetoric, and English Studies (University of Alabama)
B.A. English (University of Alabama)