Education

PhD, Rhetoric and Writing, Michigan State University

MA, English Literature, University of Arkansas

Bio

Vee Lawson earned their Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Writing from Michigan State University. As a multidisciplinary scholar working across rhetoric and writing studies and feminist and gender studies, they research how we can use writing to form supportive online communities, especially when discussing volatile topics, when under surveillance, and in other adverse environments. To do so, they focus on developing mixed-methods approaches to digital writing research grounded in feminist and cultural rhetorics. Their current project examines how participants in an anonymous online forum reversed a trend of bullying and targeted hate by reinventing their community as one based in storytelling