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Juliette Kitchens teaches a variety of media, professional development, and composition courses in the Farquhar Honors College and the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences. She works directly with the Composition program, Writing minor, Applied Professional Studies program, and the M.A. in Composition, Rhetoric, and Digital Media program. Through coursework and mentorship, Dr. Kitchens encourages writers to investigate their interests, communities, and (digital) environments. Dr. Kitchens’s research interests include transmedia studies, rhetorics of technologies and media, and professional development. She has received numerous grants to support her research, including a 2015 College Composition and Communication Research Grant. Her scholarship is featured in edited collections and journals, and she has won two book awards (At Home in the Whedonverse [2017] and Slaying is Hell [2023]), and her co-authored monograph, Stories of Becoming (2022), received honorable mention for the Research Impact Award by the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Dr. Kitchens was recognized as the Halmos College Professor of the Year in 2024.