Biography
Allison Dziuba
What do you do? I am an assistant professor of English in the Composition, Rhetoric, and English Studies Program at the University of Alabama.
How did the GNSS concentration shape your career? The GNSS concentration opened both intellectual and professional doors for me. I took a first-year seminar called “Bodies Out of Bounds,” which introduced me to the interdisciplinary study of gender, race, and culture. I was excited to encounter language and theories that described the phenomena I’d been noticing in my own life. As a concentrator, I workshopped my research in the senior seminar, which cemented the value of iterative writing and regular feedback. My work now is in many ways an extension of these GNSS experiences: my scholarship is rooted in intersectional feminism, and, as an academic, I spend a lot of time researching, writing, and revising. As I investigate how college students learn to communicate in civic and communal spaces, I am attentive to how systems of power suffuse rhetorical situations—an awareness that I can trace directly to my GNSS coursework.