Assistant Teaching Professor
Global Arts, Media, and Writing Studies
An Assistant Teaching Professor in Writing Studies, Dr. Emily RĂ³nay Johnston (she/her/hers) researches the relationship between writing, trauma, and resilience. Dr. Emily has published on writing about adversity and on teaching writing about adversity, in College Composition and Communication (2023), Writers: Craft & Context (2022), Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (2020), and elsewhere, and in the edited collections Systems Shift: Creating and Navigating Change in Rhetoric and Composition Administration (2023) and Composing Feminist Interventions: Activism, Engagement, Praxis (2018) published by University Press of Colorado.