UMass Boston

Rhetorical theory, queer feminist rhetoric, rhetoric and composition pedagogy

PhD, University of Minnesota

MA, The University of West Florida

BS, Eastern Michigan University

Edited Collection

Oleksiak, Timothy, and Joshua Barsczewski, eds. Adequate: Rewriting the Logics of Success in Rhetoric and Composition. Utah State University Press, 2026.

Articles and Book Chapters

Restaino, Jessica, and Timothy Oleksiak. “Desiring Consent: A Reflexive Methodology for Feminist Research.” Rhetorica Rising. Eileen E. Schell, K.J. Rawson, Curtis J. Jewell, Abigail H. Long, Sidney Turner, and Gabriella Wilson, eds. University of South Carolina Press, 2025, pp. 175-92.

Oleksiak, Timothy. “Necessary Foreclosures, or Notes on Consent as a Practice of Writing.” Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminist Rhetoric, edited by Jacqueline Rhodes and Suban Nur Cooley, 2025, pp. 297-303.

Oleksiak, Timothy. “Composing Consent as a Response to the Challenge of Openness.” College English, vol. 84, no. 5, 2022, pp. 429-446.

Oleksiak, Timothy. “On Taking the Bottom’s Stance, or Not Your Typical Submissive.” The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric, edited by Jonathan Alexander and Jacqueline Rhodes, Routledge, 2022, pp. 357-364.

Oleksiak, Timothy. “Slow Peer Review in the Writing Classroom.” Critical Reading and Writing in the Era of Fake News a special issue of Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, vol. 21, no. 2, 2021, pp. 369-383.

Oleksiak, Timothy. “A Queer Praxis for Peer Review.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 72, no. 2, 2020, pp. 306-332.

Editorial Work

Philips, Samuel, Violet Livingston, Timothy Oleksiak, and Stephanie West-Puckett. “Informed Refusal: Theories, Pedagogies, and Methods for Imagining Consent in English Studies” in Informed Refusal: Theories, Pedagogies, and Methods for Imagining Consent in English Studies special issue of College English, vol. 88, no. 2, 2025.

Oleksiak, Timothy, Jamila M. Kareem, Amy Lueck, and Ligia Mihut, Editorial Team. Conference on College Composition and Communication Companion Publication. NCTE, 2024.

Media Appearances

"Episode 190: Adequate." The Big Rhetorical Podcast, 02 Mar 2026

“Episode 101: Timothy Oleksiak.” Pedagogue, 23 Feb 2022

Gaduate Teaching

ENGL 698: TA Practicum

ENGL 668: Perspectives on Composition

• Seminar Topic: Introduction to RCLWS
• Seminar Topic: Queer Rhetorics and Composition

ENGL 670: Philosophies of the Composing Process

• Seminar Topic: Theory and Practice of Peer Review

ENGL 673: Digital Writing

Undergraduate Teaching

ENGL 101: Composition I 

ENGL 102: Composition II

ENGL 203: Writing: Craft/Context/Design

ENGL 204: Professional Writing and Document Design

ENGL 306: Advanced Nonfiction Writing

ENGL 309: Multimedia Authoring

ENGL 379: Special Topics – Trans Rhetoric

ENGL 312: Digital Culture & Composition

ENGL 457: Colloquium: Careers in English

ENGL 475: Professional and New Media Writing Capstone Internship

ENGL 477: Professional and New Media Writing Capstone Internship II