Dr. Erika Sparby

With Ela Przybylo. (Under development for Spring 2022). Zine-making Toward Social Change: Activism, Rhetoric, and Publishing Minoritarian Cultures

Sparby, Erika M. (June 2021). Memetic critical power tools: Teaching an ethic of privacy and identity for memes in the technical communication classroom. Paper accepted to the Association for the Teachers of Technical Writing Conference, Zoom. (Paper was originally accepted for the 2020 conference, which was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic)

With Ela Przybylo. (February and March 2021). Podcasting Toward Social Change: Sound-Based Pedagogy and Scholarship During COVID-19. Speaker series featuring Joi Adams, Ada Jaarsma, and Hannah McGregor

Gelms, Bridget, Gruwell, Leigh, Manivannan, Vyshali, & Sparby, Erika M. (December 2020). Intersectional feminism & digital aggression: Research experiences and approaches. Hosted by the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition. Zoom.

Sparby, Erika M. (March 2020). YouTube, haters, and reading mean comments: Testing a rhetorical-ethical approach to studying online aggression (as part of a co-organized panel called “Questioning the Commonplaces of Digital aggression: New approaches for researching and teaching productive response to online hate speech and harassment”). Paper accepted to Conference on College Composition and Communication, Milwaukee, WI. (Conference was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic)

Sparby, Erika M. (May 2020). Ethically engaging with digital activism and digital media. Roundtable accepted to Computers and Writing, Greenville, NC. (Conference was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic)

Sparby, Erika M. (October 2020). Digital aggression: Research, experience, and policy. Invited panelist for Leveled: Gendered online aggression and the move toward equality in the digital workspace, a Zoom event and workshop hosted by the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women & Gender.

With Ela Przybylo and Raven Preston. (December 2020). Antiracist Pedagogies Workshop. This workshop featured student specialists (Nina Hanee Jang, Chamelia Moore, and Eric Korankye) who gave antiracist pedagogical feedback to teachers in the English Department

"Digital Rhetorics and an Ethic of Responsibility in Online Aggression." Invited presentation for the English Department Faculty Lecture Series. November 2019, Normal, IL

"Meming Ethically." Invited keynote address for Language and Rhetorical Studies symposium. October 2019, Ann Arbor, MI

"Online Aggression and What We Can Do About It," with Jessica Reyman, NIU STEM Cafe, March 2019

Sparby, E. M. Political Memes and the Party Divide: A Case Study of Kim Davis and Hillary Clinton Memes. Accepted for presentation at the Digital Rhetoric/Digital Media in the Post-Truth Age symposium, March 2019, Tuscaloosa, AL.

“Toward a Theory of Digital Aggression and Memetic Screens” at Computers and Writing, June 2019, East Lansing, MI

“Toward an Ethic of Self-Care and Protection When Researching Digital Aggression” as part of a co-organized panel on “New Ethical Frameworks for Researching Digital Aggression” at Computers and Writing, June 2019, East Lansing, MI

Sparby, E. M. Behind the Scenes of Digital Aggression Research: Identity, Method, Action, and Self-Care. Roundtable given at Computers and Writing, May 2018, Fairfax, VA.

Sparby, E. M. When Trolls Become Technical Communicators: A Case Study of iOS8 and Wave, presented at the Association for the Teachers of Technical Writing Conference, March 2018, Kansas City, KS.

Sparby, E. M. Meming/Counter-Meming: Remixing Negative Memes to Deconstruct Stereotypes, presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 2017, Portland, OR.

Sparby, E. M. Anonymity, Design, and Identification: The Rhetorical Construction of Identity on Digital Social Media, presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, April 2016, Houston, TX.

Sparby, E. M. Fake Geek Girl, Remixed: Resisting Negative Stereotypes through Counter-Memes, presented at Cultural Rhetorics, October 2016, East Lansing, MI.

Day, M., Sparby, E. M., Lukowski, A. A., & Marquis, D. Digitizing Analog Networks to Share and Reflect on Student Writing, presented at Computers and Writing, May 2015, Menomonie, WI.