Professional Summary
Alex Evans is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College. Beginning in Fall 2026, he will serve as the director of the college's English Composition program. He continues to teach a variety of undergraduate English courses, partially within the college's required composition sequence.
Alongside his programmatic and pedagogical work, Dr. Evans maintains an active research agenda in writing studies. His current work centers on the history and practice of writing program administration with a particular focus on the institutional and political entanglements of program administration at open-access institutions (like UCBA) and the labor conditions that enable and constrain work within college writing programs. Previously, he has published on topics including graduate preparation for teaching college-level writing, archival research methods in writing studies, tutorial-style writing instruction, and subculture rhetorics.
Dr. Evans' research has been published in a variety of prominent peer-reviewed journals in writing studies and related disciplines, including College English, College Composition and Communication, Academic Labor: Research and Artistry, and Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments. With Bethany Hellwig, he is co-editor of Precarious Pedagogies: Teaching Praxis of the New Majority, a collection exploring the realities of contingent academic employment and its effects on teaching, forthcoming from the WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado in 2027.
Alex serves on the University Composition Committee (UCOMP) and in leadership and service roles for a variety of professional organizations, including the Global Society of Online Literacy Educators’ Executive Board, the Conference on College Composition and Communications’ Newcomers' Welcome Committee, and the Two-Year College English Association’s Taskforce for Preparing Teachers of English in the Two-Year College.
Education
PhD: University of Cincinnati (English - Rhetoric and Composition)
MA: University of Cincinnati (English - Creative Writing)
Research and Practice Interests
Writing pedagogy, writing program administration, access-oriented institutions, disciplinary history, archival research methods, contingent labor, multimodal composition, graduate preparation, subculture rhetorics.
Positions and Work Experience
2025 -To Present Assistant Professor of English, University of Cincinnati - Blue Ash College,
2026 -To Present Director of the English Composition Program, University of Cincinnati - Blue Ash College,
Publications
Peer Reviewed Publications
Evans, Alex (2025). Reviving Roger Garrison: Toward a Writing Studies History of/for the Two-Year College. College English, 87 (3) , 323-340
Evans, Alex (2025). Archival Research for Community- and Skill-Building in the Online Writing Classroom. Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments, 9 (1)
D’Orazio, Anna, Katie Monthie, Brooke Boling, and Alex Evans (2024). The TPC Contact Zone: Preparing Graduate Student Instructors for Students’ Writing Realities. Xchanges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Technical Communication, Rhetoric, and Writing Across the Curriculum, 19 (1)
Hellwig, Bethany and Alex Evans (2024). The Culture of Poverty in the Ivory Tower. Academic Labor: Research and Artistry, 8 (1)
Evans, Alex (2024). A Day for Preserving Things: Activism, Technology, and the Politics of Preservation in the Sarah Records Archive. Punk and Post-Punk, 13 (2)
Carter, Chris, Alex Evans, Bethany Hellwig, and Katie Monthie (2024). Hybrid Histories: Blended Archives and Mediated Memory. Proceedings of the Computers and Writing Annual Conference, Davis, CA, 2023
Published Books
Evans, Alex and Bethany Hellwig (2027). Precarious Pedagogy: Teaching Praxis of the New Majority. The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado. (Editor)
Book Chapter
Evans, Alex (2024). Cultivating Student Voices: Multimodal Composing in the Community College. In Teaching Community College and Historically Underserved Students: Innovative, Inclusive, and Compassionate Pedagogy. Palgrave-Macmillan
Additional Publications
Professional Affiliation
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC)
Two-Year College English Association (TYCA)
Council of Writing Program Administration (CWPA)
Global Society of Online Literacy Educators (GSOLE)
Rhetoric Society of America (RSA)