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Aimee A. Knight, PhD

Professor, Communication and Media Studies

Aimee Knight

Department

Office

Bronstein Annex 203

Phone

610-660-1885
Contact

Aimée Knight is a Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Saint Joseph’s University where she teaches writing, design, and nonprofit communication. She is the founder and director of the Beautiful Social Research Collaborative, a community writing program where students partner with nonprofits and community-based organizations. Aimée is committed to working with others to develop their creative capacities and leadership skills.

    • PhD, Rhetoric and Writing, Michigan State University, 2009
    • MA, Central and Eastern European Studies, Jagiellonian University, 2001
    • BA, English, Michigan State University, 1996

  • Books

    Peer-Reviewed Journal articles

    • Steven Hammer and Aimée Knight, (2015). “Crafting Malfunction: Rhetoric and Circuit-bending.” Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion. No. 15. View article.
    • Aimée Knight and Austin Starin, (2014). “Designs of Meaning: Tools for Digital Storytellers.” Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion. No. 14. View article.
    • Jentery Sayers, Virgina Kuhn, Aimée Knight, Elizabeth Losh, Jim Brown, Victoria Callahan, Viola Lasmana, and Melanie Yergeau, “Hacking the Classroom.” Computers and Composition Online. Spring 2014. View article.
    • Aimée Knight (2013). “Reclaiming Experience: the Aesthetic and Multimodal Composition.” Computers and Composition: an International Journal, 30(2): 146-155. View article.
    • Aimée Knight, Martine Courant Rife, Phill Alexander, Les Loncharich, Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, (2009). “About Face: Mapping Our Institutional Presence." Computers and Composition: an International Journal, 26(3): 190-202. View article.

    Book chapters

    • Aimée Knight (2019). “Where Data Meets Design: Visualization in the Digital Humanities.” Richard Lane, Raymond Siemens, and Constance Crompton (Eds). in Doing More Digital Humanities: Open Approaches to Creation, Growth, and Development. Routledge.
    • Aimée Knight, (2015). “Design Philosophy for a Multimodal Composition Classroom.” Danielle DeVoss & James Purdy. (Eds.) Making Space: Writing Instruction, Infrastructure, and Multiliteracies. University of Michigan Press.

    Book reviews

    • Aimée Knight, (2014). “Book Review: Designing Texts: Teaching Visual Communication.” Journal of Business and Technical Communication. 28(2): 249-253. View review.
    • Community Writing
    • Nonprofit Communications
    • Multimodal Communications