Office Hours
By appointment via Zoom
Education
BA, Auburn University, 2016 (Professional and Public Writing)
BA, Auburn University, 2016 (Sociology)
MA, Auburn University, 2020 (Technical and Professional Communication)
PhD, TTU, expected graduation Spring 2027 (Technical Communication and Rhetoric)
About Me
Honors and Awards
TTU Summer Thesis/Dissertation Research Award, 2026
TTU Carolyn Rude Endowment Technical Communication & Rhetoric Scholarship, 2026
TTU Carolyn Rude Endowment Technical Communication & Rhetoric Scholarship, 2024
Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Work
Queer Rhetorical Framings in Two Fandoms' Responses to Canon Creator's Transphobia. Computers and Writing. June 4- 7, 2026.
Fanfiction and Terms of Service: How Terms of Service for Two Major Fanfiction Platforms Intersect with Messy Copyright Laws in a Digital Age. Applied Rhetoric Collaborative. June 4-5, 2026.
The “Terms of Service” Genre as Social Action: A case study of Fanfiction.net and AO3. Fan Studies Network North America 2025 Conference. October 2025.
Queer Rhetorical Framing and Intellectual Property: The Cases of the Harry Potter and Danny Phantom Fandoms. Conference on College Composition and Communication (4C26) Qualitative Research Network, Cleveland, OH. March 2026.
Research Interests
Queer Rhetorical Framings in Two Fandoms' Responses to a Canon Creator's Transphobia (How fandom participants navigate ethical crisis around an original author's transphobia and the frameworks that arise out of these negotiations)
Publications
Grant, K. (2025). “Canon” and “fanon” in the danny phantom/detective comics (DC) comics crossover fandom: Expanding authorship and authority in transformative fan works, Computers and Composition, 76, 102937
Grant, K. (2025). Not Playing Around: Feminist and Queer Rhetorics in Videogames by Rebecca Richards, Parlor Press, 2024, 264, pp., $35 (paperback), ISBN: 9781643174518. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 1–4.
Additional article under review with POROI
Courses Taught
ENGL 1100: Composition I
ENGL 1120: Composition II
ENGL 3040: Technical Writing
HONR 2077: Honors Forum