Select Student Publications
Below are selected student publications that originated in my classes, demonstrating students' ability to produce research-driven, multimodal, and community-engaged scholarship for audiences beyond the classroom.
Lechowska Kitchen / Smaki Lechowskich
Student Author: Clara Lechowski
Class: Advanced Exposition (Spring 2026)
Clara’s project exemplifies how a cultural rhetorics approach to writing and community helps students tap into their everyday rhetoric and writing experiences. Her image-text draws on discussions with family members and her bifurcated identity as a Polish American to create a text for other multilingual and multicultural students who also never feel quite at home.
Publication: Lechowski, Clara, and Alexander Slotkin. (2025). “Cookin’ Up a Multimodal Story: Community-Engaged Writing and a Cultural Rhetorics Cookbook.” Reflections: A Journal of Community Engaged Writing and Rhetoric, 24(2), 275-287.
Owarai Japan
Student Author: Ibuki Nishino
Class: Multimodal Writing and Digital Literacy (Fall 2021)
Ibuki’s zine is a colorful introduction to Owarai humor, connecting this contemporary televised practice to broader cultural histories and lived experiences. Her project intentionally moves between Japanese, English, and English/Japanese transliterations to rhetorically immerse readers in the possibilities of multilingual composition.
Publication: Nishino, Ibuki, and Alexander Slotkin. (2021). “Owarai Japan.” ImageText: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies, 13(1).
入れ墨
Student Author: Matthew Lee
Class: Multimodal Writing and Digital Literacy (Fall 2021)
Matthew’s project stemmed from his overlapping interest in tattoos as multimodal compositions and his Japanese heritage, beginning with the traditional Japanese tattoos (irezumi) decorating his body. His project provides a well-researched historical overview of the genre while also analyzing his own tattoos as rhetorical artifacts.
Publication: Lee, Matthew, and Alexander Slotkin. (2021). “入れ墨.” ImageText: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies, 13(1).