Assistant Professor
Jaquetta Shade-Johnson is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and an Assistant Professor of English. Her research at the intersections of cultural rehetorics, Indigenous studies, and environmental humanities is primarily focused on how Indigenous communities make meaning through rhetorical, embodied, and storied relationships with the land. She is a founding editor of Spark: a 4C4Equality Journal, a digital, open-access, peer-reviewed journal addressing activism in writing, rhetoric, and literacy studies. She also sits on the editorial board of Peitho, the journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric Composition; and the executive committee for the Conference on College Composition and Communications (CCCC).