Research

Academic Publications

Smith, Allegra, Jordan Canzonetta, Kate Fedewa, and Kate Birdsall. “Building and Sustaining Undergraduate Internship Programs in an Age of Social Distancing.” Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2023.

Prielipp, Sarah, Kate Fedewa, and Kate Birdsall. “Performing Failure: Stories of Contingent Faculty.” Forum: Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty, 2022.

Birdsall, Kate and Tessa Paneth-Pollak. Ripped and Torn: Lives on the Intersection… A Collection of Punk-Rock Memorabilia. RCAH LookOut! Gallery, 2019 (curated exhibit). March 25-April 17, 2019.

Birdsall, Kate. “Titanium Tits.” In Privilege Through the Looking Glass, edited by Patricia Leavy, 103-14. New York: Sense Publishers, 2017.

Birdsall, Kate. “Frenzied Representation and the Forbidden Image: 9/11’s Falling Man and the Unrepresentable.” Epiphany: Journal of Transdisciplinary Studies 8, no. 1 (2015): 39-55.

Birdsall, Kate and Julie Drew. “Wanting Our Selves: Writing and the Postsexual in New Media Contexts. In Writing Posthumanism, Posthuman Writing, edited by Sid Dobrin, 99-132. New York: Parlor Press, 2015.

Birdsall, Kate. “A Contradictory Assemblage of Self: James Frey, Creative Nonfiction, and the Empire of Oprah.” JAC: A Journal of Culture, Rhetoric, & Politics 33, no. 1 (2013): 85-120.

Birdsall, Kate. “Willis and the Antebellum Bachelor Narrative.” In Sketches at Home and Abroad: A Critical Edition of Selections from the Writings of Nathaniel Parker Willis, edited by Jon Miller, 25-47. Akron: University of Akron Press, 2010.

Academic Publications in Process

Birdsall, Kate, Kristen Pratt, and Alison Hagen. “Making Enterprise Design Interesting.” In process for Communication Design Quarterly.

Birdsall, Kate, Kristen Pratt, and Alison Hagen. “Frameworks for Collaborative Innovation: A Student-Focused UX Center at Michigan State University.” In process for SIGDOC.

Birdsall, Kate, Dànielle DeVoss, Aiden Tomkinson, and Kyla Chamberlain. “Publishing, Process, Praxis: The Cube at MSU.” In process for Composition Forum.

Birdsall, Kate and Kristen Pratt. “Publishing, Process, and the Praxis of Grant Writing.” In process for Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy.

Birdsall, Kate. “R1 + K-12 = Community-Engaged Praxis.” In process for Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric.

Creative Publications

Birdsall, Kate. The Heights: A Liz Boyle Mystery. Garner, NC: Red Adept Publishing, 2019 (forthcoming).

Birdsall, Kate. “Yuletide Homicide: A Liz Boyle Short Story.” Tangled Lights and Silent Nights. Ed. Kelly Stone Gamble, 2018.

Birdsall, Kate. The Flats: A Liz Boyle Mystery. Garner, NC: Red Adept Publishing, 2017.

Birdsall, Kate. “Stuffy Time.” ROAR: Literature and Revolution by Feminist People (2017).

Birdsall, Kate. “Anchors.” The Dandelion Review 1, no. 1 (2016).

Birdsall, Kate. “White.” The Rubbertop Review 3, no. 1 (2009).