Long before I knew what digital rhetoric meant, I was writing poems on our family computer. As a teenager, I spent hours on that PC listening to music, watching movies, exploring the internet, and, most of all, writing. I wrote poems, stories, and journal entries and saved them in folders instead of keeping them on paper. As my access to the internet grew, what I read and encountered online gradually found its way into my own writing. I did not have words like digital literacy or multimodality for any of this yet. I just knew that technology had become part…
Author: Maryam Vaezi
Maryam Vaezi
Maryam Vaezi is a PhD candidate in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English (RCTE) at the University of Arizona. She serves as a graduate teaching instructor in the university’s Writing Program, where she teaches first-year composition and Business and Technical Writing courses. She is an Associate Editor for the Research in Online Literacy Education journal and serves as an Executive At-Large Board Member for the Global Society of Online Literacy Educators. Previously, she was the Julie Christakis DeFazio Writing Pedagogy Research Fellow, where she investigated how Writing Program faculty understand and engage with generative AI. She has also received research awards from University of Arizona, the Global Society of Online Literacy Educators (GSOLE), and the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum (AWAC). Her research interests include educational technology, writing teacher education, technical communication, culturally responsive pedagogy, and generative AI in writing instruction. She has contributed to these fields through scholarly publications, conference presentations, and editorial and professional service.