ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú

Emily Legg

Introduction

Emily Legg is a Cherokee Nation citizen and an Assistant Professor of Composition and Rhetoric. Her research centers Indigenous methodologies of storytelling as a decolonial and materialist research practices in writing and rhetoric, and she brings these methodologies to both her historiographic recovery work and classroom pedagogies. She hopes that by challenging ourselves to become better teacher-scholars, we all can create spaces where community knowledge begins and inclusive teaching can happen.

Research Interests

• Indigenous Rhetorics
• Cultural Rhetorics
• Decolonizing Methodologies
• Digital Writing, Technology, and Rhetoric
• Professional Writing

Courses Taught

• ENG/IMS 224 Digital Rhetorics
• ENG 310 Special Topics: Intercultural Rhetorics
• ENG/IMS 411 Visual Rhetorics
• ENG 415 Capstone in Professional Writing
• ENG/IMS 416 Writing for a Global Audience
• ENG 495 Capstone in Rhetoric and Writing
• ENG 737 Contemporary Theories of Rhetoric
• ENG 760 Special Topics Cultural Rhetorics and Materialism

Education

• Ph.D., Purdue University, 2016
• M.A., Rhetoric and Composition, Purdue University, 2011
• B.A., Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Oklahoma, 2005

Publications

• Legg, Emily. Stories of our Living Ephemera: Storytelling Methodologies in the Archives of the Cherokee National Seminaries, 1846-1907. (Forthcoming in September 2023 and in production with Utah State Press)
  
• Legg, Emily. “In Ceremony with Grandmother Water Spider: Finding Balance Between Cherokee Rhetorical Models and the Academy.” Composition Studies 49:2 (2021)
  
• Legg, Emily and Adam Strantz. “‘I’m surprised that this hasn’t happened before’: An Indigenous Examination of UXD Failure During the Hawai’i Missile False Alarm.” With Adam Strantz. Equipping Technical Communicators for Social Justice Work: Topics, Theories, and Methodologies. Eds. Rebecca Walton & Godwin Agboka. Utah State University Press, 2021. 49-71.
  
• Legg, Emily, and Patricia Sullivan. “Methodological Ballast: Storytelling as a Balancing Practice in the Study of Posthuman Praxis.” Posthuman Praxis. Eds. Kristen Moore and Dan Richards. Routledge, 2018. 23-45.
  
• Legg, Emily. “Daughters of the Seminaries: Re-Landscaping History through the Composition Courses at the Cherokee Female Seminary.” College Composition and Communication 66:1 (2014): 67-90.

Work in Progress

Emily Legg plans to extend her research in Indigenous rhetorics through establishing relationships with American Indian communities, specifically focusing on Indigenous languages, storytelling, and traditional practices such as basket weaving, beadwork, and quilting. She is also developing a project on influential Cherokee women writers during the 19th century in addition to researching the role of Cherokee matriarchal practices within academia that intersect and complicate more mainstream feminist practices. Finally, she plans to continue her collaborative work on Indigenous User Experience Design.