Leigh Elion

Before joining Georgia Tech’s Writing and Communication Program as a Lecturer, Leigh Elion served as Director of the Writing Center and Assistant Teaching Professor of English at Oxford College of Emory University, and as a Lecturer in the UC-Santa Barbara Writing Program. She has also held positions as a Writer, Researcher, and Instructional Designer in public humanities industry roles. Her research focuses on the multi-modal and multi-sensory rhetorics of gentrification, as well as on inclusive and accessible pedagogy, and she especially enjoys teaching place-based classes where students use writing to connect to their communities. She serves on the executive board of the Rhetoric Society of America, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications including Composition Studies and Southern Discourse in the Center.