Rate My Professor Erin Bahl

Erin Bahl is an Associate Professor of Applied and Professional Writing in the Department of English at Kennesaw State University, where she also serves as the inaugural Social Media and Branding Coordinator. A Literature faculty member, she earned her PhD in English with concentrations in Rhetoric/Writing and Folklore from The Ohio State University in 2018, MA in English from the same institution in 2014, and BA in English from Creighton University in 2012. Her dissertation, "Refracting Webtexts: Invention and Design in Composing Multimodal Scholarship," received the 2018 Computers and Composition Hugh Burns Dissertation Award. Bahl teaches courses such as Professional and Academic Editing, Writing for Social Media, and Writing for the Web in the MA in Professional Writing program.

Bahl's research specializations include webtexts, webcomics, folklore, accessibility, and digital publishing, exploring how digital technologies facilitate knowledge creation and storytelling. Her forthcoming book, Storied Objects: A Graphic Narrative Reflection on Material Metaphors and Digital Writing (Parlor Press, 2025), is the inaugural volume in the Comics and Graphic Narratives Series. Key publications encompass "Comics and Scholarship: Sketching the Possibilities" (Composition Studies, 2015), "Becoming the Labyrinth: Negotiating Magical Space and Identity in Puella Magi Madoka Magica" (Humanities, 2016), "Comics and Graphic Storytelling in Technical Communication" (Technical Communication Quarterly, 2020), "Instructor as Game Master: Applying Games’ Material Rhetorics to Online Course Design" (Computers and Composition Online, 2022), "The Rhetoric of Description: Embodiment, Power, and Playfulness in Representations of the Visual" (Kairos, 2022; 2023 Kairos Best Webtext Award, co-authored with Margaret Price), "Accessibility Basics: Writing for Accessibility in Online Learning Environments" (2023), and "Fairy Tales, #FolktaleWeek, and Vernacular Narrative Sequential Art Online" (Journal of American Folklore, 2025). Her work appears in Kairos, Computers and Composition Online, enculturation, The Digital Review, Graphic RHM, Composition Studies, Humanities, Smithsonian's Folklife Magazine, and edited collections. As co-editor of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, she advances scholarship in rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy.