Biography
Logan Middleton is a PhD candidate in the department of English and the Center for Writing Studies.
Although originally from San Francisco, he earned his BA in English and Communication Arts with an emphasis in film from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2017, he completed his MA in English with a concentration in writing studies at the University of Illinois, where he continued to cultivate scholarly interests in multimodal composition, disability studies, and community literacies.
As an outgrowth of his work with the Education Justice Project—a college-in-prison program at Illinois—his 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
Courses Taught
Writing Studies 300: Issues in Tutoring Writing
Informatics / Writing Studies 303: Writing Across Media
Odyssey Project: Critical Thinking and Writing
Rhetoric 105: Writing and Research
External Links
Other positions held
- Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program Graduate Mentor, UIUC Graduate College
- Writing Workshop Coordinator, Education Justice Project
- Assistant Director, Center for Writing Studies
- Assistant Director, Writers Workshop
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” (review). Quarterly Journal of Speech, vol. 106, no. 3, 2020, pp. 361-365.