Olivia Rowland is a PhD candidate in Writing, Rhetoric, and Literacy at The Ohio State University. Her research brings intersectional, anticapitalist feminist theory to bear on academic labor in composition, with particular attention to the racialization and feminization of teachers' "care work." She is also interested in antiracist pedagogies and anticapitalist rhetorics. 

Selected Publications

"Capitalist Rhetoric, Anticapitalist Struggle: Reevaluating Wages for Housework." Peitho, vol. 28, no. 3, 2026. 

Locher, Hannah, and Olivia Rowland. "Conference Creatures: An Experiment in Feminist New Materialist Praxis." Kairos, vol. 30, no. 2, 2026. 

"Redistributing Care Work: Toward Labor Justice for Graduate Student Instructors." Xchanges, vol. 19, no. 1, 2025. 

"The True Crisis Is Neoliberalism: An Analysis of the Palestinian-led BDS Movement’s Pandemic Rhetoric." Young Scholars in Writing, vol. 19, 2022, pp. 26-39.