Rate My Professor Tiffany Kinney

Kinney's academic interests encompass marginalized rhetorics through examinations of local histories that challenge dominant structures and narratives, as well as interdisciplinary research on effective science writing pedagogy, including the development of digital curricula. Her key publications include the book chapter “Tracing the Conversation: 20th Century Mormon Feminist Thought” in Feminist Connections: Rhetorical Strategies from Suffragists to the Cyberfeminists (University of Alabama Press, 2020); “Cultivating Graduate Writing Groups as Communities of Practice: A Toolkit” co-authored with Sumiko Martinez and Julie Snyder-Yuly in Praxis: A Writing Center Journal 16.3 (2019); “Reevaluating Our Commitments: Intersectionality, Interdisciplinarity and the Future of Feminist Rhetoric” co-authored with Rachel Bloom et al. in Rhetorics Change/Rhetoric’s Change (Parlor Press, 2018); “Cinch for Instacurves: Exploring the Discursive Assemblage of Waist Trainers in New Media” in The Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society 6.2 (2016); and “Do You Have a Voice? Publication and Rhetorical Practices of One Feminist Newsletter” in Feminist Spaces 2.2 (2016). She has contributed book reviews to Peitho (2017) and Rhetorica (2017). Among her honors are the Exemplary Faculty Award from Colorado Mesa University in 2019 and 2020, attendance at the Rhetoric Society of America Biennial Summer Institute in 2019, and the Clarence Snow Dissertation Fellowship from the University of Utah in 2015–2016.