Join us for a lecture in celebration of scholarly making and mentoring! Author, editor, and OSU English alum Erin Kathleen Bahl will share a talk on publishing recent multimodal projects in digital writing, comics, folklore, and accessibility, focusing in part on her 2026 monograph Storied Objects: A Graphic Narrative Reflection on Material Metaphors and Digital Writing.
This event is co-sponsored by The Rhetoric Society @ OSU and The Disability Studies Program.
Biography:
Erin Kathleen Bahl is Associate Professor of English (Applied and Professional Writing) at Kennesaw State University in Atlanta, Georgia, as well as the department’s inaugural Social Media & Branding Coordinator. Her work focuses on creating knowledge, telling stories, and designing for access via digital scholarship, webcomics, folklore, and interactive narrative. Her scholarship includes publications in Kairos, Computers and Composition Online, enculturation, The Journal of American Folklore, Technical Communication Quarterly, and The Digital Review, as well as several edited collections. Her creative work includes digital comics published by the Smithsonian’s Folklife Magazine, Graphic RHM, Vermont Folklife Center, Variant Literature, and Through the Twisted Woods. Her digital dissertation on webtexts and invention won the 2018 Hugh Burns Distinguished Dissertation Award. Her 2022 illustrated webtext on audio description (co-authored with Margaret Price) received Kairos’s Best Webtext Award and was selected for the Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2023. Along with Chris Andrews, she is co-editor for Kairos.