Sergio Figueiredo
Last Upated: 19 February 2019
On Twitter as @doubleosergo
Academic Appointments
Associate Professor of Media and Rhetoric (Aug. 2018 – Present)
Graduate Faculty in Professional Writing
Department of English, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA 30144
Assistant Professor of Media and Rhetoric (Aug. 2012 – July 2018) - Promoted/Tenured
Graduate Faculty in Professional Writing
Department of English, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA 30144
Visiting Assistant Professor of English (Aug. 2011 – May 2012)
Department of English, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056
Assistant Director of FYC (May 2010 – May 2011)
Department of English, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634
Graduate Teaching Assistant (Aug. 2007 – May 2010)
Department of English, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634
Awards and Honors
2018 Regents’ Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award (Department Nominee), Department of English, Kennesaw State University
2018 Outstanding Scholar Faculty Honoree (Student Award Given to Estefany Palacio), College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Kennesaw State University
2016 Distinguished Early Career Faculty Award, Department of English, Kennesaw State University
Editorial Positions
Review Board (Member), Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society (Feb. 2019 – Present)
Contributing Editor, Esthesis: An E-Mag of Arts & Ideas (Sept. 2016 – Present)
Assistant Editor (Production), Intermezzo (Jan. 2016 – Present)
Editorial Board Member and Reviewer, The Comics Grid (March 2014 – Present)
Reviews Editor, H-DigiRhet (Nov. 2012 – Present)
Editorial Board Member, TheJUMP+ (Nov. 2009 – Present)
Professional Affiliations
Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW)
Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC)
Global Art and Ideas Nexus (GAIN)
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
Rhetoric Society of America (RSA)
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA)
Language Fluencies
French: Conversational, Reading, Translation
Portuguese: Conversational, Reading, Translation
HTML/CSS: Writing, Editing
Research, Teaching, and Service Interests
Comics and Graphic Narrative
Comparative and Cultural Rhetorics
Composition Theory and Pedagogy
Digital and Experimental Humanities
Interactive Storytelling and Games
Interdisciplinary Arts and Humanities
Literary and Artistic Avant-Garde
New, Emerging, and Social Media
Program and Curriculum Development
Publishing and Design (Digital; Print)
Rhetorical Theory and Ethics
Technical Communication
