From Ghostwriter to Co-Author-in-the-Loop: Making AI’s Writing Labor Visible
Public scholarship connecting authorship, AI writing labor, rhetorical judgment, and visible collaboration.
Public Scholarship
The Rhetoric Diaries
This website is my scholarly and professional home. The Rhetoric Diaries YouTube channel is its video and public-media counterpart.
Published work across public-facing forms
This archive gathers completed public scholarship across essays, digital publications, and other public-facing forms. Entries appear here only after publication and individual review; works in development remain private.
What It Means to Lose the Place You Were Just Learning To Enter
A graduate-student reflection on CCCC, disciplinary belonging, institutional governance, and what members are owed when the future of a professional organization becomes uncertain.
The Rhetoric Diaries
Video essays and public scholarship on graduate study, rhetoric and composition, writing pedagogy, and academic life.
Ghost Font and Accessibility
A critique of “human-only” design systems that exclude disabled humans while attempting to exclude machines.
Expertise Before Delegation—Without Sacrificing Access
A reflection on expertise before delegation, closed-laptop policies, and the need to preserve accessibility while protecting independent reasoning.
Cafesito Talk
A conversational video series about graduate study, writing, rhetoric, teaching, and academic life.
Start from the question you have.
If you are asking whether AI use can remain accountable
If you are thinking about writing, institutional belonging, or graduate study
Read “What It Means to Lose the Place You Were Just Learning To Enter.”
If you prefer a spoken or visual point of entry
Earlier journalism
Public writing before the PhD
Before entering rhetoric and composition, I worked in student journalism as a reporter and assistant news editor. Selected pieces addressed education, institutional life, public affairs, and community issues.