Don Unger, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Writing & Rhetoric

Don Unger’s research addresses the relationships among embodied experience, technological innovation, and grassroots activism. Currently, he is working with the Marks Project, located in Quitman County, on a community-centered digital literacy program. Additionally, he is conducting historical research about the Poor People’s Corporation, a network of Black worker-owned and -operated cooperatives in Mississippi from the mid 1960s to the mid 1970s. He serves as the Co-Managing Editor of Spark: A Journal of Activism in Writing, Rhetoric & Literacy Studies and as the Social-Media Editor for Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society. His scholarship has appeared in Computers & Composition, Constellations: A Cultural Rhetorics Publishing Space, and Teacher-Scholar-Activist, as well as in the edited collection Thinking Globally, Composing Locally: Rethinking Online Writing in the Age of the Global Internet. He teaches courses in community writing, writing for digital media, and feminist pedagogy.

Gender Studies -Related Research Interests: embodiment, feminist and womanist pedagogies, activism, community engagement