UMass Boston

rhetorical theory, queer feminist rhetorics, rhetoric and composition pedagogy 

PhD, University of Minnesota
MA, The University of West Florida
BS, Eastern Michigan University

• Oleksiak, Timothy. “Slow Peer Review in the Writing Classroom.” Reading and Writing in the Era of Fake News special issue of Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, vol. 21, no. 2, 2021, pp. 369-383.
• Oleksiak, Timothy. “It’s Too Late to Rupaullogize: The Lackluster Defense of an Occasional Unlistener.” Why Are We All Gagging: The Cultural Impact of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Cameron Crookston. Ed. Intellect Books, 2021, pp. 193-210.
• Oleksiak, Timothy. “A Queer Praxis for Peer Review” College Composition and Communication, vol. 72, no. 2, pp. 306-332.
• Banks, William P., Michael J. Faris, Collie Fulford, Timothy Oleksiak, GPat Patterson, and Trixie G. Smith. “Writing Program Administration: A Queer Symposium.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 43.2 (2020): 11-43.
• Oleksiak, Timothy. “When Queers Listen,” in Reinventing (with) Theory in Rhetoric and Writing Studies: Essays in Honor of Sharon Crowley, edited by Andrea Alden, Kendall Gerdes, Judy Holiday, and Ryan Skinnell, 256-268. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2019.
• Oleksiak, Timothy. “Composing in a Sling: BDSM, Power, and Non-identification.” Queer Rhetorics: DirtySexy special issue of Pre/Text 24, no. 1-4 (Spring-Winter 2018): 9-24.
• Oleksiak, Timothy. “Creating a Mission and Goals for WID," in Sustainable WAC: A Whole Systems Approach to Launching and Developing WAC Programs, edited by Michelle T. Cox, Daniel Melzer, and Jeffery Galin, 104-106. National Council of Teachers of English. NCTE, 2018.
• Oleksiak, Timothy. “Incendiary Discourse: Reconsidering ‘Flaming,’ Authority, and Deliberative Democracy in Computer-mediated Communication.” Composition Studies 40 no. 2 (2012): 34-49.

• Oleksiak, Timothy, editor. “Queer Rhetorical Listening: A Cluster Conversation.” Peitho: The Journal of The Coalition for Feminist Scholars for the History of Rhetoric and Composition, vol. 23, no. 1, 2020.
   
• Alexander, Jonathan, and Timothy Oleksiak, eds. “Queer Generosity—Approaching Something Like Queer Love in Always Precarious Times.” QED: A Journal of GLBT Worldmaking (slated for the vol. 9, no. 1, 2022)

Current Projects

• “On Being a Rhetorical Bottom” for the Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric (forthcoming Spring 2022).

Timothy Oleksiak's primary goal as a teacher is to develop our critical capacities to engage the joys, anxieties, and difficulties surrounding us. His classrooms are social spaces with diverse audiences that have competing and complimentary needs. He believes rhetorical theories and practices provide the resources for helping our classroom communities manage and make sense of the multiple interests that circulate within and beyond the classroom space.

Undergraduate

• ENGL 101: First Year Composition
• ENGL 203: Writing Craft/Context/Design
• ENGL 306: Advanced Nonfiction
• ENGL 309: New Media Authoring
• ENGL 312: Digital Cultures and Composition
• ENGL 475: Professional and New Media Writing Internship

Graduate

• ENGL 668: Perspectives on Composition – Queer Rhetorics and Composition
• ENGL 670: Philosophies of Process
• ENGL 673: Digital Writing

Timothy Oleksiak is the director of the Professional and New Media Writing program at UMass Boston. This minor/concentration helps students supplement their major fields of study with specializations in professional writing and new media production.

• Elected to a 3-year term on the Executive Council of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. (December, 2021—2023)