Joyce Rain Anderson

 Bridgewater State University

Dr. Joyce Rain Anderson is Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at Bridgewater State University. In addition to teaching first-year writing, cultural rhetorics, Indigenous rhetorics and other writing courses, she coordinates Native American and Indigenous Studies and is Faculty Associate for the Pine Ridge Partnership. In 2013, she was awarded the BSU President’s Award for Diversity and Social Justice and the recipient of the 2015-16 BSU Presidential Fellowship for her project “Strengthening Our Indigenous Partnerships.” She serves as faculty advisor for the Martin Richard Institute for Social Justice and is a faculty member of BSU’s Racial Justice Task Force. She is co-editor of Survivance, Sovereignty, and Story: Teaching American Indian Rhetorics (2015). Her chapter “Walking with Relatives: Indigenous Bodies of Protest” is in Unruly Rhetorics (2018). Her life and work are guided by Indigenous principles of respect, responsibility, and reciprocity.

Areas of Expertise

• Cultural Studies
• Race and Ethnicity
• Indigenous Rhetorics/Studies

Methodology

• Archival Methods
• Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR)
• Ethnographic Methods
• Experimental, Mixed Methods
• Qualitative Methods