Dr. Jaquetta Shade-Johnson’s research investigates the constellative knowledge production and rhetorical practices of meaning-making within cultural communities. At the intersections of cultural rhetorics, Indigenous studies, digital storytelling, and environmental humanities, her research is primarily focused on how First American communities make meaning through rhetorical, embodied, material, and storied relationships with the land. Her current book project is an archival, embodies, and land-based autoethnographic historiography which addresses the the rhetorical erasure and recoding of Cherokee matrilineal and matriarchal identities as patrilineal and patriarchal from the Assimilation Era to the present day to illuminate impacts of an imposed patriarchal structure and paper genocide on clan identity and matrilineal power. Her work has appeared in journals including Spark: a 4C4Equality Journal and the Journal of Global Literacies, Technologies, and Emerging Pedagogies.
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cultural rhetorics, embodiment, materiality, digital storytelling, environmental humanities, decolonial theory, anticolonial practice, Indigenous rhetoric, multimodal composition
