Amanda Ayers

Visiting Assistant Professor

Amanda Ayers is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of Charleston. She received her PhD in English Rhetoric and Composition from Florida State University, where she studied ways we can make academic spaces more accessible, equitable, and human. She enjoys teaching First-Year Writing and courses that center around digital writing, community writing, and feminist rhetorics. As a “teacher-researcher,” her research considers intersectional feminist writing pedagogies, antiracist pedagogies, and embodiment in the classroom. Beyond the classroom, her research often operates at the intersection of bodies and language, and she studies rhetorics of digital bodies and fat activist rhetorics.

Education

Ph.D., English Rhetoric and Composition, Florida State University

M.A., English Rhetoric and Composition, Florida State University

B.A., English Writing and Publication, University of North Georgia

Research Interests

“A Design Justice Approach for Writing Courses: Centering Care in Writing Courses in the Major.” Co-written with Jacki Fiscus-Cannaday, Composition Studies FEN Blog, 2026.

"Scaffolding for Collaboration and Multimodal Assignments.” Co-written with Michael Neal, Amory Orchard, and Ashleah Wimberly. Better Practices: Experts and Emerging Instructors Explore How to Better Teach Writing in Online and Hybrid Spaces, edited by Amy Cicchino and Troy Hicks, 2024. 

"Open-Media Assignment Design to Address Access and Accessibility in Online Multimodal Composition." Co-written with Michael Neal, Amory Orchard, and Ashleah Wimberly.  Better Practices: Experts and Emerging Instructors Explore How to Better Teach Writing in Online and Hybrid Spaces, edited by Amy Cicchino and Troy Hicks, 2024.