Dr. Autumn West
- About
- Education
- Selected Research
Biography
Dr. Autumn J. West is an Instructional Assistant Professor of English in the Writing Program at Illinois State University. Her current work critically examines how contemporary writing practices are shaped by the interplay of digital tools with classroom learning and students' everyday literate experiences. This includes critically examining the integration of emergent technologies, such as artificial intelligence, in relation to student uptake, interaction, and agency. She investigates how literacies are mobilized across different contexts—academic and beyond—challenging traditional boundaries of what counts as writing.
Current Courses
ENG 239.001 Multimodal Composition
ENG 145.007 Writing In The Academic Disciplines
ENG 145.009 Writing In The Academic Disciplines
ENG 145.014 Writing In The Academic Disciplines
Teaching Interests & Areas
Multimodal composition, writing across media, digital literacies, artificial intelligence, writing pedagogy, business and technical writing, critical literacy, student agency in writing, writing for social change
Research Interests & Areas
Contemporary writing practices, transliteracies, artificial intelligence, literacy sponsorship, sociocultural writing, critical literacy studies, multimodal composition, writing in educational contexts, the intersections of technologies and literacies, social justice education