Adam Padgett, Ph.D.

  • Assistant Teaching Professor
Address

Albert and Vera Ramírez (Temp Bldg. #1), Room 4B

Degree(s)
  • PhD, Composition and Rhetoric, University of South Carolina
  • MA, English, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  • BA, English, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Areas of Expertise
  • Writing Studies and Pedagogy
  • Technical, Professional, and Community Writing
  • Digital Rhetorics, Information Literacies, and Critical Data Literacies
Bio

Adam Padgett's research focuses on information literacy, surveillance, and digital culture. Intersecting queer theories of embodiment, circulation theory, and classical rhetorical theory, he studies the ways in which humans and bodies are mediated by surveillance technologies, where bodies non-autonomously participate in a variety of publics without their awareness or consent. As a teacher of writing and rhetoric, he is particularly interested in discovering ways students can improve their digital information literacy, ethically leverage networked tools for rhetorical ends, and even recognize and challenge the ethics of their own participation within these everyday systems.

Select Publications
  • Scholarly Article: “Improvisational Scenographies: Identity, Ideology, and Algorithmic Community-Based Moderation.” Computers and Writing Conference Proceedings, 2022 (Jan. 2023): pp. 35-52. DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/PCW-B.2023.1862.2.04.
  • Scholarly Article: “Bridging the Islands of Expressionism: Rethinking Plagiarism as Rhetorical Failure, Not Moral Failure.” The CEA Critic: The Journal of the College English Association. Vol. 79, No. 3 (Fall 2017): pp. 324-9, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cea.2017.0031.
  • Book Review: “Review of Sojourning in Disciplinary Cultures: A Case Study of Teaching Writing in Engineering.” Across the Disciplines, (December 2019); DOI: https://doi.org/10.37514/ATD-J.2019.16.4.23.
  • Award: The Irene Elliot Award for Excellence in Teaching (2017) Awarded by the First-Year English Program at the University of South Carolina.
Course(s) Regularly Taught
  • WRTG 3020: Privacy and Digital Surveillance in the 21st Century
  • WRTG 3020: Queer Rhetorics
  • WRTG 3030: Writing on Science & Society
  • WRTG 1150: Writing & Rhetoric
 

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