Biography
I'm a PhD candidate in the department of English and the Center for Writing Studies.
Although originally from San Francisco, I earned my BA in English and Communication Arts with an emphasis in film from the University of Wisconsin. In 2017, I completed my MA in English with a concentration in writing studies at the University of Illinois, where I continued to cultivate scholarly interests in multimodal composition, disability studies, and community literacies.
As an outgrowth of my work with the Education Justice Project—a college-in-prison program at Illinois—my dissertation research has crystallized around the ties and tensions between literacy, higher education in prison, and abolition in the 21st-century carceral state.
Research Interests
Prison education, abolition, community literacies, multimodal composition, disability studies, qualitative research methods
Highlighted Publications
Barrett, Larry, Pablo Mendoza, Logan Middleton, Mario Rubio, and Thomas Stromblad. "More than Transformative: A New View of Prison Writing Narratives." Reflections: A Journal of Writing, Service-Learning, and Community Literacy, vol. 19, no. 1, 2019, pp. 11-30.
Middleton, Logan. “Precarious Rhetorics.” Quarterly Journal of Speech, vol. 106, no. 3, 2020, pp. 361-365.