Joseph Franklin
New York City College of Technology
Assistant Professor, English
Global Writing Studies, Ethnography, Transnational Writing Program Administration, Linguistic Justice, Inclusive Pedagogy, Professional Writing, Multimodal Composition, Comparative Rhetorics, Environmental Conservation
Contact: jfranklin.academic@gmail.com
Academic Publications
Forthcoming. Packing our bags: From cosmology to curriculum change with container mobility. College Composition & Communication: Special Issue Politics.
(2026). Baking in the disposition: The WAC/WID world through transnational lenses. Writing Worldviews: Extended Scholarly Conversations from IWAC 2023. https://wacclearinghouse.org/docs/books/worldviews/chapter6.pdf
(2026). Hallucinating artificial authenticity at the translingual writing center. Co-authored with Falvey, A.L. in E. Buck & J. Botvin Writing Centers and AI: Generating Early Conversations. https://wacclearinghouse.org/docs/books/generating/chapter26.pdf
(2023). (En)countering monolingual, fast-capitalist comp/rhet: A transnational sensemaking of graduate education. Co-authored with Cousins, E.Y. & Way, A. In N. B. Ayash & C. Kilfoil (Eds.) Translingual and Transnational Graduate Education in Rhetoric and Composition.
(2022). Show your work(flow). In E. Cecil-Lemkin & J. Conrad (Eds.) Another Word; The Writing Center Blog: University of Wisconsin Madison. https://dept.writing.wisc.edu/blog/show-your-workflow/
(2019). The transnational underdog and institutional change: Stories from a U.K. writing center. WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, 44 (3-4), 10-16. https://wac.colostate.edu/docs/wln/v44/44.3-4.pdf
Educational Background
2021
PhD English (Composition and Rhetoric)
University of Louisville
Dissertation: “Transnational Writing Program Administration: Mobility, Entanglement, Work”
Committee: Bruce Horner (Chair), Andrea Olinger, Frank Kelderman, Christiane Donahue
2015
MA English (Composition and Rhetoric)
Thesis: “Incongruity, Context, and Counter-Narrative: Challenging Assumptions about Multilingual Writers”
Committee: LuMing Mao (Chair), James Porter, Gabriele Bechtel
2010
BA English (Creative Writing)
Areas of Concentration: Creative Non-Fiction, Poetry
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