Making Matters

Leigh Gruwell is assistant professor of English at Auburn University, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in writing and rhetoric. Her research centers on digital, feminist, and new materialist rhetorics as well as composition pedagogy and research methodologies.

“Making Matters makes craft matter to rhetoric, for ethics, and for furthering our discussions of how to grapple with agency.”—Casey Boyle, University of Texas  "An exceptionally well researched and articulated argument that makes an excellent contribution to our field."—Composition Forum“Builds a really useful critique of current work in the field in new materialism—and then provides a comprehensive approach for remedying that work’s shortfalls. It provides useful introductions to connections among sections of the field that need to be brought together: new materialism, feminism, multimodality, and advocacy.”—Kristin Prins, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona  “Offers its audience of composition and feminist scholars and graduate students a useful perspective on new materialism and how it can reorient the pedagogical, administrative, and research practices of the field.”—Marilyn Cooper, professor emerita, Michigan Tech“In unearthing the inherent political consequentiality of new materialist rhetorics in alignment with ethics and equity, no one is on a par with Gruwell. Making Matters is an ally and asset for those who want to delve deep into new materialist rhetorics.”—Constellations"Gruwell’s case studies contribute to ongoing conversations around what feminist and new materialist rhetorics teach us about struggles for more equitable relations, with an emphasis on local movements and communities that also contributes to how the history and scope of craftivist work is understood."—Communication Design Quarterly