Gavin P. Johnson

Woods, Charles, Gavin P. Johnson, Morgan C. Banville, Chen Chen, and Noah Wason. (Editors). Privacy Settings.

• An edited collection featuring nine original essays and three interludes focused on the settings in which/by which privacy is rhetorically constructed. The collection is part of the larger Digital Rhetorical Privacy Collective project. 

Johnson, Gavin P. Accountability Infrastructures: Refusing Technologies of Academic Surveillance. 

• My first single-authored book argues that surveillance technologies undergird the "accountability" infrastructures that define the contemporary American university. Modeling an intersectional rhetorical method grounded in Black feminist, queer, and crip epistemologies, this book interrogates learning management systems, AI assessment tools, bibliometrics, and other technologies of academic surveillance that track, sort, and disempower. I turn to theories of fugitivity, abolition, and refusal to argue for a praxis in but not of the university. 

Johnson, Gavin P., Ashanka Kumari, and Shane A. Wood. (Editors). Made Not Only in Grades: Multimodal Assessment in the Social Justice Turn.

• This born-digital edited collection features ten original research chapters, an editors' introduction, and a Forward and an Afterword. Made Not Only in Grades entangled two of the most important issues in writing studies of the last two decades, multimodality and antiracist assessment, in ways that have yet to be addressed in the scholarship. Chapters touch on important issues such as linguistic justice, educational technologies, AI, student-teacher collaborations, and more. 

Johnson, Gavin P. Planning for privacy: Mapping infrastructures for a lab we can live with. In John Jones, Scott Lloyd DeWitt, & Ben McCorkle (Eds.), Histories of the Future: Computer Labs in Writing Instruction.

Dwyer, Sarah, Gavin P. Johnson, and Callie F. Kostelich. Together in Texas: Collaborative Writing Toward Coalition. In Erica Cirillo-McCarthy, Celeste Del Russo, Amanda Fields, and Beth Leahy (Eds.), Still Writing Together: Perspectives on Collaborative Scholarship in Rhetoric and Composition. 

Johnson, Gavin P.  What’s queer about multimodality now? In Ruby Mendoza, Constance M. Haywood, Floyd Pouncil, and Nick Sanders (Eds.), special issue Composing at the Intersections: Queer, Transgender and Feminist Approaches to Multimodal Rhetorics in Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics.

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-5380-8829

Johnson, Gavin P. (forthcoming 2026). Discomfort, kinky empiricism, and the queer possibilities of orienting research. In Erin Kathleen Bahl, Chad Iwertz Duffy, and Christa Teston (Eds.), Methodological Matters. Utah State University Press.

Loe, Kelin, Ashanka Kumari, and Gavin P. Johnson (forthcoming 2026). Learning just enough: A commentary on un/learning institutional knowledge in bits and doing the work as pre-tenure administrators. In Joshua Barsczewski and Timothy Oleksiak (Eds.), Adequate: Writing New Logics of Success in Rhetoric and Composition. Utah State University Press. 

Johnson, Gavin P. (forthcoming 2025). Do not obey in advance: Countering the chilling effects of anti-DEI legislation. WPA: Writing Program Administration 49(1).

Johnson, Gavin P., and Allegra W. Smith. (2025). Against the reading response: Making meaning through social annotation practices and authentic content genres. 2025 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm) Proceedings. http://doi.org/10.1109/ProComm64814.2025.00062

Johnson, Gavin P. (2025). On being accountable: A queer-feminist praxis of refusal in but not of the necropolitical university. In Jacqueline Rhodes and Suban Nur Cooley (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminist Rhetorics. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003401636-45 

Johnson, Gavin P., Yu Lei, Rachel McShane, Haomei Meng, Reza Panahi, and Gouda Taha. (2024). Overenrolled for the summer: Graduate instructors, course caps, and other compounding impacts. WPA: Writing Program Administration, 48(1), 12–29. Co-authored with graduate students.

Johnson, Gavin P. (2024). Cruising citations: Meditations on the circulation of queer knowledge. In Michael J. Farris and TJ Geiger (Eds), The homosexual imagination: A fifty-year retrospective [symposium]. College English, 86(6), 441–444. https://doi.org/10.58680/ce2024866435

Woods, Charles, and Gavin P. Johnson. (2024). (Re)designing privacy literacies: Toward post-surveillance in the age of generative AI. Communication Design Quarterly, 12(2), 86–97. https://cdq.sigdoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Communication-Design-Quarterly-12.2.pdf 

Johnson, Gavin P. (2024). Assessment’s affective attachments. In Kristin DeMint Bailey and Asao B. Inoue (Eds.), Narratives of Joy and Failure in Antiracist Assessment: Exploring Collaborative Writing Assessments (pp. 159–175). The WAC Clearinghouse/University Press of Colorado. https://wac.colostate.edu/docs/books/narratives/chapter9.pdf 

Allen, Laura L., and Gavin P. Johnson. (2023). Driving innovation: Analyzing mobile ridesharing app interfaces and moving toward community-based user experience (CBX). In Jennifer Sano-Franchini (Ed.), Critical Digital Interface Analysis and Social Justice [special issue]. Technical Communication 70(4), 27–41. Awarded the 2024 Ellen Nold Award for Outstanding Article in Computers and Composition Studies.

Johnson, Gavin P. (2023). Don’t act like you forgot: Approaching the AI “literacy crisis” with what we know about writing with and through technologies. Composition Studies 51(1), 169–175. https://compositionstudiesjournal.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/johnson.pdf 

Johnson, Gavin P. (2022). (Queer) optimism ain’t (im)possible. In Jacqueline Rhodes and Jonathan Alexander (Eds), The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetorics (pp. 421–428). Routledge.

Blancato, Michael, Gavin P. Johnson, Beverly J. Moss, and Sara Wilder. (2022). Brokering community-engaged writing pedagogies: Instructors imagining and negotiating race, space, and literacy. Literacy in Composition Studies 9(1), 23–46. https://licsjournal.org/index.php/LiCS/article/view/884

Managing Editor, Composition Forum

Founding Section Editor, Multimodal  + Justice + Action: A Pedagogical Companion to The Journals of Multimodal Rhetorics 

Banville, Morgan C. and Gavin P. Johnson, guest editors. (December 2024). Talking back through Rhetorical Surveillance Studies: Intersectional feminist and queer approaches, [cluster conversation]. Peitho 27(1). https://wac.colostate.edu/docs/peitho/v27n1/v27n1.pdf 

Johnson, Gavin P., Ashanka Kumari, Emily Littlejohn, Brian McShane, and Rachel McShane, editors. (2023). Writing Inquiry [3rd Edition born-digital first-year writing textbook]. Top Hat.