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• Personal prounouns

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• Job title

  INKE Partnership Postdoctoral Fellow in Open Social Scholarship & MITACS Accelerate Industrial Postdoctoral Fellow in Open, Collaborative Scholarship (Arts & Humanities)

  
  
• Institutional or Other Affiliation

  Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, University of Victoria

  
  
• ORCID

  0000-0002-3892-5346

  
  
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• Website

  http://brittanyamell.ca

  
  
• Academic interests

  Writing Studies, Rhetorical Genre Studies, Scholarly Communication, Doctoral Writing
  Education
  Social Sciences
  Rhetoric
  Interdisciplinary

  
  
• About

  I am an interdisciplinary social sciences researcher, artist, and activist who focuses on social and rhetorical theories of knowledge making and sharing. My previous research has examined the socio-rhetorical, political, and affective conditions of multi-modal texts, text-making, writers, and scholarly knowledge production. Key themes I’ve been interested in have included academic legitimacy, the creation and impact of scholarly texts, re-imagining text-making pedagogies, and the interconnections between rhetorical genre studies, epistemic justice, and activism.

  I am also a burgeoning community-engaged researcher, with a history of investigating topics rooted in community-based research methods, including Indigenous students' experiences with writing in Eurocentric postsecondary settings, graduate students’ affective and rhetorical experiences with imposter syndrome, and doctoral writers’ experiences with creating and defending unconventional dissertations. My most recent work has focused on mobilizing the findings from my PhD, mainly through preparing manuscripts for academic journals and developing a digital knowledge base for unconventional dissertations. If you're interested in learning more, check out 'Extending Notions,' my project page on HSS Commons, here.

  My diverse professional journey illustrates an ability to integrate a skills and experiences to effectively engage and support various stakeholders, whilst driving projects forward and achieving advocacy goals.

  When I’m not teaching yoga, collaborating on a research or communications project, creating art, or coaching clients, you can find me walking in my community with my camera and my three year

  Accreditations:

  In addition to completing undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Social Work, I completed my M.A. and PhD in Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies at Carleton University in 2016 and 2023, respectively. I earned a Certificate in University Teaching from the Office of the Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President (Academic, a.k.a. Teaching and Learning Services) at Carleton University in 2017.

  I am a Registered Social Worker (B.SW) with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers, as well as a certified Yoga Instructor (200 hr) and Mindfulness (Shamatha) Meditation Instructor (200 hr). In 2012, I completed an Executive Coaching Certificate from the CCI Leadership Institute in Ottawa, Ontario.