Biosketch
Rebecca S. Richards is an associate professor of English at University of Massachusetts Lowell. Her research and teaching explore the intersections of rhetoric and writing, gender and sexuality, and media. Her first book, "Transnational Feminist Rhetorics and Gendered Leadership in Global Politics: From Daughters of Destiny to Iron Ladies" (2015), analyzes how gendered concepts circulate among women who have been world leaders. Her work also appears in journals like "Feminist Formations," "Feminist Teacher" and "Kairos," as well as in several edited collections like "Hillary Rodham Clinton and the 2016 Election," the "Bloomsbury Approaches to Game Studies," and the "Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminist Rhetoric." Her second book, "Not Playing Around: Feminist and Queer Rhetoric's in Video Games," published in 2024 by Parlor Press in the Studies in Rhetoric's and Feminisms series, examines how video games present concepts, such as silence, listening and contemplation, that contribute to queer and feminist rhetorics. Before working in academia, Becca was an in-house and freelance editor, as well as a public high school teacher.
