A smiling person wearing glasses and a green “Ventura Beach, California” sweatshirt. They are standing on a balcony overlooking a quaint town and a hill with trees.

Rylee Mehr

MA student, Rhetoric and Writing
Graduate Teaching Assistant, First-Year Writing

Office: 282 Bessey Hall
Email: mehrryle@msu.edu

Research Interests

reflection, rhetoric of voice, linguistic diversity and justice, cultural rhetorics, writing pedagogy

Profile

Rylee is a second-year Master’s student in Rhetoric and Writing within the Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures department. She received her Bachelor’s degree in English with a minor in Philosophy from Florida State University where she fostered a love for cultural and visual rhetoric as well as embracing linguistic diversity in the classroom. Rylee also likes to explore the rhetoric within pop culture, especially memes, and the unconventional ways in which they cultivate community. Her current research centers student voices in First-Year Writing and investigates the means through which their voices can be amplified.
 

Education

B.A., English, Florida State University, 2022

Representative Work

Drever, E., Brooks, S. S., Mehr, R., Maggio, S., & DeVoss, D.N. (2024). Writing identity, identity writing | Identity matters, matters of identity. Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, 8(1).

Sample Courses Taught

WRA 101: First-Year Writing