Biography

Alanna Frost is a writing studies scholar who teaches classes in first-year writing, literacy studies, and cultural rhetorics. Her research is invested in the intersections of writers’ communicative realities, English-education practice, and English language policy. She is a member of the editorial team of Literacy in Composition Studies.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

• Ph.D., Rhetoric and Composition, University of Louisville, 2008
• M.A., English Literature, University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2000
• B.Ed., English and Geography, University of Victoria, 1994

Expertise

• Literacy Studies
• Cultural Rhetorics
• Composition Theory and Pedagogy

Recent Publications

• “In Order to ‘Say What We Say:’ Archival Protocol that Attends to Indigenous Data Sovereignty. Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric. Winter 2026

• “Challenging Authenticity and Indigenous Literature in the Preservice Teachers’ Course.” Journal of Literacy Innovation. Fall 2025

• Translingual Dispositions: Globalized Approaches to the Teaching of English. Co-edited with Julia Kiernan and Suzanne Blum Malley. WAC Clearinghouse, 2020.