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Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

Mordecai, Chandler. "'For Anyone Who Needs This': Embracing Healing, Reflection, and Care through Content Creation." Proposal accepted and manuscript submitted. Feminist Digital Methods. Forthcoming by Concordia University Press. 

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

“Pedagogical Approaches and Reflections in Zine Multimodal Composition”

In this article, I reflect on my pedagogical explorations of the intersections of writing, multimodality, literacy, and the creation of compositions in my undergraduate course, 

ENC 1136: Multimodal Writing and Digital Literacy. This article features three student compositions from the course's Image/Text culminating project and details the pedagogical approaches I used to prepare students for this culminating project. I aim to share pedagogical steps to image/text-based multimodal composition and showcase exemplary student work. https://imagetextjournal.com/zines-pedagogical-reflections/

“Confronting Institutionalized Misogyny: Reading Amelia Opie’s Adeline Mowbray in the #MeToo Era”

My article, “Confronting Institutionalized Misogyny: Reading Amelia Opie’s Adeline Mowbray in the #MeToo Era,” reassesses Amelia Opie’s (1769-1853) sentimental novel and protagonist through a #MeToo framework and considers the ways that gender, class, age, and race intersect and complicate post-Revolutionary narratives. Scholars have often focused on Adeline’s opinions and experiences, and on whether they reveal the novel’s radical or conservative principles while neglecting Opie’s representation of the impact of those principles on the individual lives of lower, middle, and upper-class women. I show how Opie’s Adeline Mowbray can be read as a pre-history of #MeToo, thus aligning Opie with more progressive movements despite the conservative overtones of her novel. Depicting trauma within family, marital, and social relationships, Adeline Mowbray becomes a cautionary tale set in a society that perpetuates gender inequalities and limits choices for women. http://ncgsjournal.com/issue201/mordecai.html

“# anxiety: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Narrations of Anxiety on TikTok.”

My article, #anxiety: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Narrations of Anxiety on TikTok, presents a framework for analyzing how content creators are utilizing TikTok’s algorithm and data-point ranking system to tag and distribute content on the platform, but also build communities of mental health awareness and support. Through a multimodal discourse analysis of the top 10 TikTok videos using the hashtag, #anxiety, this article seeks to establish how discussions of anxiety disorders are facilitated through the use of TikTok’s socio-technical features and affordances of visibility, editability, persistence, and association in order to build digital communities of support. Read full article here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compcom.2023.102763

“Facilitating Stories of Immigration in North Central Florida”

 This article is co-authored by members of a graduate seminar at the University of Florida. In this article, we document how a cultural rhetorics orientation to community engagement shaped our approach to immigrant activism in Florida.

Digital scholarship

“Milton Garvey: A Case Study of West Indian Culture and Labor”

This exhibit tells the largely unknown story of the life and accomplishments of Milton Duncan Garvey. Garvey immigrated as a young man from Barbados to Panama during the Canal construction and began working as a steward in the Tivoli Hotel and was a star cricket player. He later became an influential playwright in Panama and gained national recognition. His granddaughter, Nydia Thomas, has brought his story to light as part of her research into her family history. Ms. Thomas is the daughter of two Panamanians of West Indian descent who migrated to Texas. She is a lawyer who has dedicated her career to juvenile justice. 


This exhibit is part of a collaborative oral history project undertaken by  Pan Caribbean Sankofa , a division of CGM Cemetery Preservation Foundation and outreach, research, education, and advisory group, and the University of Florida Libraries to increase materials, resources, and visibility in documenting the voices and experiences of West Indians in the  Panama Canal Museum Collection.  This graduate seminar, Digitizing the Archive of Migration and Resistance, in the English Department at the University of Florida was approached by Pan Caribbean Sankofa to help expand on the research Ms. Thomas has completed. This exhibit is a pilot course for student participation in the Pan Caribbean Sankofa and Panama Canal Museum collaboration.


View Exhibit Here: arcg.is/0TminL

Conference Presentations

  • Mordecai, Chandler.  "Fantasy, Fae, and Fashion: A Case Study of  #faepunk as a Digital Subculture on TikTok". International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts. Orlando, FL. March 2024


  • Mordecai, Chandler. “Expanding Pedagogical Approaches to Women’s Writing: Retelling through Playlist Pedagogy” Collage Arts Association. New York, NY, February 2023. 


  • Mordecai, Chandler. “#anxiety: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Narrations of anxiety on TikTok,” a Roundtable Presentation entitled “Positionality, Purpose, and Methodology in Social Media Research”, Computers and Writing, Greenville, NC, 2022. 


  • Mordecai, Chandler. Group Presentation: “Milton Garvey: A Case Study of West Indian Culture and Labor” Memory Lane: Exploring the Lives of Caribbean People at the Panama Canal in the 20th Century, Gainesville, FL, September 2022. https:// arcg.is/0TminL


  • Mordecai, Chandler. “Building Communication in the Pandemic Classroom” Pedagogy Practice & Philosophy, University of Florida Writing Program, Gainesville, FL, February 1, 2022.


  • Mordecai, Chandler. "Gender Norm Production, Reproduction and Performance in Pride and Prejudice and Jane Austen’s Redefining of Femininity.” University of North Alabama Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, Florence, AL March 2021.
  • Mordecai, Chandler. “Liberation through Madness in “‘The Yellow Wallpaper’”. Sigma Tau Delta North Georgia Regional Conference. Virtual Conference, October 2020. 


  • Mordecai, Chandler. “The Lolita Effect and Social Learning Theory”. National Conference for Undergraduate Research, Kennesaw, GA, April 2019.


  • Mordecai, Chandler. “The Impact of FOIA Requests on College Journalism,” group presentation. College Media Association Conference, New York, NY March 2019.   


  • Mordecai, Chandler. “Puerto Rico y los Estados Unidos: Territorialidad y Conflicto”   Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Conference on Latin American and Iberian Studies, Cleveland, TN March 2018.    


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