Hello! My name is Alexander Slotkin (he/him). My research interests include cultural rhetorics, Jewish rhetorics, technical communication, multimodal rhetorics, community literacies, public memory, and nonwestern methods/ologies. What connects my different research interests is a focus on exploring how writing facilitates community by invoking insider and outsider groups in the process of creating, safe-housing, and circulating cultural knowledge.

My dissertation explores how situating assemblage as a key writing concept in overlooked cultural matrices (i.e., Iraqi Jewish cemeteries) extends our understanding of that term, as well as writing more generally. In addition to writing my dissertation, I am also currently co-editing a book manuscript on the theory and practice of refusing to translate or transpose cultural knowledge into dominant languages, forms, and codes.

If you’d like to connect or learn more about me, please feel free to email me at aslotkin@ufl.edu or follow me on Twitter at @alex_slotkin.