About
Dr. Jaquetta Shade-Johnson is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Missouri, where she teaches courses in rhetoric and composition, Indigenous literature, digital storytelling, and Native American and Indigenous studies. Her research at the intersections of cultural rhetorics, Indigenous studies, and environmental humanities is primarily focused on how Indigenous communities make meaning through rhetorical, embodied, and storied relationships with the land. She currently serves as chair of the 2020 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Nominating Committee, in addition to serving on the editorial collective as a founding editor for Spark: a 4C4Equality Journal, a digital, open-access, peer-reviewed journal addressing activism in writing, rhetoric, and literacy studies. Education
PhD in Rhetoric and Writing, Michigan State University: August 2018
Dissertation: “Wishi Stories: Rhetorical Strategies of Survivance and Continuance in Oklahoma Cherokee Foodways”
Directed by Malea Powell (chair), Terese Guinsatao Monberg, Alexandra Hidalgo, & Elizabeth LaPensée
Master of Arts in English, Northeastern State University: Spring 2013
Thesis: “Domestic Folkways of the Oklahoma Cherokees: A Tribal Feminist Analysis”
Directed by Kimberli Lee & Leslie Hannah
Bachelor of Arts in English, Northeastern State University: Spring May 2010
Capstone Experience: University Writing Center Peer Tutoring Program
Directed by Mary Stanley
Memberships
Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) / National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
Cultural Rhetorics Consortium
Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers
Sigma Tau Delta (Mu Iota Chapter), International English Honor Society
