Where Does Class Identity Belong?: Genre Innovation as a Bridge between Class Identity and Academic Discourses

Alisa Russell is an assistant professor of English at Wake Forest University. Her areas of interest include rhetorical genre studies, public writing, and writing across the curriculum, and her research focuses on increasing community access through writing and writing innovations. Alisa’s work has appeared in journals including Composition Forum, The WAC Journal, and The Clearing House, and she currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Association for Writing across the Curriculum.