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Duthely, Regina M. “Plus-Size Fashion Influencers and Disruptive Black Bodies.” Social Media + Society, vol. 8, no. 2, 2022, pp. 1-5.

Curtis, Katherine and Regina Duthely. “Teaching Power and Storytelling Through Zines.” Engaging Undergraduates in Primary Source Research, edited by Lijuan Xu, Rowman & Littlefield, 2021, pp. 1-11.

Duthely, Regina. “Awkward and Black: Issa Rae and Representations of Black Womanhood From Online to Television.” Representations of African American Professionals on TV Series Since the 1990s, edited by LaToya Brackett, McFarland Press, 2021, pp. 186-96.

Duthely, Regina. “Hip-Hop Rhetoric and Multimodal Digital Composition.” The Routledge Handbook of Digital Writing and Rhetoric, edited by Jonathan Alexander and Jacqueline Rhodes, Routledge, 2018, pp. 352-60. 

Duthely, Regina. “Black Feminist Hip-Hop Rhetorics and the Digital Public Sphere.” Changing English, vol. 24, no. 2, 2017, pp. 202-12.

In Progress:

Baker, Tatiana, Regina Duthely, and Tiana Wood-Sims. "Black Feminist Caretaking as a Portal Beyond Carcerality." (Accept with minor revisions)

Duthely, Regina. “Black Women's Digital Rhetorics: Social Media Insurrections and Communities of Resistance.” (Under Review)

Duthely, Regina and Alisa Kessel. Sexy: The Political History of an Idea (Book Manuscript)

Refereed Conference Papers:

"High-Impact Projects for Peer Tutors." National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing/International Writing Center Association. Cincinnati, OH. October 2025.

"Hypersexed but not Sexy." American Political Science Association. Vancouver, BC. September 2025

"The Male Gaze and the Emergence of 'Sexy'." Western Political Science Association. Seattle, WA. April 2025

“We’re in It Together: Writing Centers as Communities of Embodied Intelligence.” European Writing Center Association Conference. Limerick, Ireland. June 2024

“Embodied Disruptions: Vulnerability and Joy as Bridges to Community in the Writing Center.” National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing. Pittsburgh, PA. November 2023

“Black Women Speak: Digital Wreck and Feminist Freedoms.” Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference. Atlanta, GA. September 2023

“The Writing Self in Depersonalized Writing Contexts: Black Women’s Embodied Online Writing.” Writing Research Across Borders Conference. Trondheim, Norway. February 2023

“How Hip-Hop Voices Can Answer the Call for Change in Inhospitable Spaces.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Baltimore, MD. May 2022 (Unable to attend due to Covid)

“Instagram Thots, Gold Diggers, and Hos: Black Women’s Visual Counternarratives of Sexual Freedom.” Computers and Writing Conference. Greenville. NC. May 2020 (Canceled due to Covid)

“Black Women’s Hip-Hop Rhetorics and the Politics of Pleasure.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Portland, OR. May 2020 (Canceled due to Covid)

“Plus Size Fashion Bloggers and Embodied Feminist Resistance.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Pittsburgh, PA. March 2019

“Resistance Zines: Zine Pedagogy as Liberatory Educational Method.” Race and Pedagogy National Conference. Tacoma, WA. September 2018

“Black Women’s Digital Rhetorics: Social Media and Communities of Resistance.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Minneapolis, MN. May 2018

“Multimodal Hip-Hop and Transforming Writing Studies.” Computers and Writing Conference. Fairfax, VA. May 2018

"You Know What It Is!?!": Identification, Advocacy and Solidarity in Anti-Racist Spaces and Pedagogies.” NCTE Assembly for Research Midwinter Conference. Towson, MD. March 2018

“Legitimizing Identities: Race, Gender, and Liberation in Digital Discourse Communities” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Portland, OR. March 2017

“Hip-Hop Rhetoric and Liberatory Digital Composition” 6th Biennial International Critical Thinking and Writing Conference. Hamden, CT. November 2016

“Twitter in the Writing Classroom: Rhetorical Listening, Silence, and Resistance” Thomas R. Watson Conference. Louisville, KY. October 2016

“Race, Resistance, and Writing in the Public Sphere” Computers and Writing Conference. Rochester, NY. May 2016

“Black Voices in Digital Spaces” HASTAC Conference. Tempe, AZ. May, 2016 

“Black Feminist Formations: The Digital Public and Black Women’s Resistance” St. John’s Global Humanities Conference. Queens, NY. April 2016

“’Miley What’s Good’: Cultural Colonialism and Pop Culture” Northeast Modern Language Association Convention. Hartford, CT. March 2016 (panel chair)

 “’Why My Crew Gotta Sit at the Gate?’ (R.I.5. John Rodriguez): The Risks and Rewards of Speaking Rhetorical Truth into Silencing Spaces: Race, Space, and Place Online” NCTE Assembly for Research Midwinter Conference. New Orleans, LA. February 2015

““Meetin’ the Originoo Crooks…”: Race, Open Access, and Digital Appropriation.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Indianapolis, IN. March 2014

“Laying it Down!: African American Students, Subversive Digital Discourse, and Respectability Politics in the Academic Sphere.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Las Vegas, NV. March 2013 

“Growing Our Mother’s Gardens: The Digital Ethos of Black Womanhood.” Thomas R. Watson Conference. Louisville, KY. October 2012

“When and Where I Enter: Black Women and the Literary Canon.” St. John’s University Graduate Conference. Queens, NY. April 2012

Invited Talks:

Invited Lecturer, AFAM/GQS/PG 366: Disorienting Histories: Reproductive Justice in the Post-Roe United States. University of Puget Sound, March 2026

Invited Guest, "Influence with Intention: Plus Sized Instagram Models and the Politics of Visibility" Psychology of Black Womanhood Podcast, January 2026

Invited Lecturer, PSYC 311: Learning and Behavior. University of Puget Sound, April 2024

Invited Lecturer, PSYC 311: Learning and Behavior. University of Puget Sound, April 2023

Invited Lecturer, “Visual Self-Fashioning” GQS 220: What is Queer?. University of Puget Sound, February 2023

Invited Guest, “Embodying Your Digital Self” Writing Remix Podcast, April 2022

Keynote Speaker, “The Stories Black Women Tell: Counterstorytelling and Embodied Freedom'' Toni Morrison Day. Monmouth University, February 2022

Invited Lecturer, “Black Feminist Hip Hop Rhetorics.” African American Literature (MA/PhD). Howard University, April 2021

Invited Panelist, “Engaged Pedagogy in a Time of Pandemic” Center for Writing and Learning Teaching Workshop. University of Puget Sound, January 2021

Invited Panelist, “Race Matters: #SayHerName: Black Feminism and Black Liberation” Race Matters Series: Race and Pedagogy Institute. University of Puget Sound, July 2020

Invited Speaker, “Plus Size Fashion Blogging and Disruptive Black Bodies” Gender and Queer Studies Faculty Symposium. University of Puget Sound, November 2019

Keynote Speaker, “Turning Anger into Action” Sista Circle Retreat. Pacific Lutheran University, March 2019

Invited Panelist, ““All that we are and ever hope to be”: Community Archives Imagining and Embracing Digital Integration in its Many Forms” Diversifying the Digital Historical Record Forum. New York University, October 2017

Plenary Panelist, “Participatory Culture and Digital Resistance in the Writing Classroom” St. John’s University Graduate Conference. St. John’s University, April 2017

Guest Panelist, “’You Ain’t About That Life’: Hip-Hop Rhetoric and African American English in the Composition Classroom” Teaching Vernaculars Roundtable. St. John’s University, November 2013.

Current Courses:

Crunk Feminisms: Sexuality, Subversion, and Society

Past Courses:

Contemporary Protest and Resistance

Introduction to English Studies

Literature by Women

Multimodal Composition

Black Feminist Theory

The Digital Age and Its Discontents

Writing Internship

Afrofuturism

Rhetorics of Resistance

Writing and Culture

Architectures of Power

Remixing and Revising Digital Explorations of Writing

Who Am I? A Quest for Identity Through Language

The Language of Conflict

Remixing Narratives: Digital Writing for Social Justice

Language, Education, and Power: Writing as Liberation

Hip-Hop and Composition

Writing and Identity: Culture, Community, and the Journey to Self

Reading and Writing Blackness

Community, Place, and Power

Stories Untold: Literature from Marginalized Voices

Global Afro-Diaspora

Traditions and Taboos: Reading and Writing Resistance

Bridging Feminisms: Global Women’s Writing and Resistance