Mohammed Sakip Iddrisu

Education

• Ph.D., Writing, Rhetorics, and Literacies, Arizona State University, Tempe, 2024
• M.A., Rhetoric and Writing Studies, University of Texas at El Paso, 2019
• B.A., English, Kwame Nkrumah University of Sci. & Tech, Ghana, 2013

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

ENGL 10803: Introductory Composition: Writing as Inquiry

ENGL 20803: Intermediate Composition: Writing as Argument

WRIT 30243: Rhetorical Practices in Culture – Global Rhetorics

Graduate

ENGL 80833: Cultural Rhetorics

Areas of Focus and Interests

• Global Black Rhetorics
• Community Literacies and Writing
• Indigenous African Epistemologies
• Public & Cultural Rhetorics
• Decolonial Rhetorics & Indigenous Methodologies
• Islamic Counterpublics in the U.S
• Anti-Racist Pedagogies

Publications

• Iddrisu, Mohammed S. "Ubuntu-Ukama Epistemologies: Towards a Shift from a Colonial Grammar of Possession and Exploitation to Ecological Kinship and Community in Environmental Communication." Environmental Communication (2026): 1-15.
• Ajayi-Lowo, Esther Oluwshina, and Mohammed S. Iddrisu. "Gendered Returns: Exploring African and African Diasporic Women’s Reclamation of African Birthing and Wellness Epistemologies and Practices." Agenda (2026): 1-14.

• Iddrisu, Mohammed S. “Racialized Rhetorics of Knowing in Black-white Encounters: Theorizing the Fatal Consequences of Epistemic Violence against Black Communities”, Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric. Vol. 24: Iss. 2, Spring 2025, pp. 7-43. DOI: https://doi.org/10.59236/rjv24i2pp7-43

• Iddrisu, Mohammed . “African Americans in Ghana: Enacting Literate Acts of Healing from Epistemic and Ontological Harm,” Community Literacy Journal: Vol. 18: Iss. 1, Article 3. Fall 2023, pp. 3-23. Available at: https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/communityliteracy/vol18/iss1/3

• Iddrisu, Mohammed S. “Linguistic Injustice and Citizenship in Ghana: Epistemological Decolonization and Stranger-relationality as Rhetorical Arts of Resistance.” A Charge for Change, edited by David Beard and Elizabethada Wright. Parlor P, 2023, pp. 13-24.
• Ozyesilpinar, Eda, and Mohammed S. Iddrisu “A Rhetoric of Accent Fear and the Experiences of Multilingual Teachers of Writing.” Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric: Vol. 23: Iss. 1, Article 1. Fall 2023, pp. 6-35, A Rhetoric of Accent Fear and the Experiences of Multilingual Teachers of Writing (reflectionsjournal.net)
• Devey, Alyssa, Christina Saidy; Mohammed S. Iddrisu, Seher Shah, and Marlene A. Tovar “On Parallel Paths: Learning through Case Studies in the Writing Pedagogy Course,” Teaching/Writing: The Journal of Writing Teacher Education: Vol. 11: Iss. 3, Article 8. Fall/Winter 2022, https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/wte/vol11/iss3/8
• Gonzales, Laura, and Josephine Walwema, with contributors Estefania Castillo, Mohammed Iddrisu, Corina Lerma, and Jennifer Wilhite. “User Experience and Transliteracies in Technical and Professional Communication.” Ed. Crane, Kate, and Kelli Cargile Cook. User Experience as Innovative Academic Practice. WAC Clearinghouse, 2022, pp. 65-85, DOI: 10.37514/TPC-B.2022.1367.2.04

Instructional Aids, Invited

• Iddrisu, Mohammed S. Ace Beginners’ Grammar. Ace Publishers. 2018.
• Iddrisu, Mohammed S. Ace Lower Intermediate Grammar. Ace Publishers. 2018.

Selected Presentations

• “Birthing as Healing: Reclaiming and Adapting African Birthing Epistemologies in Africa and among Africa's Diasporas.” African Studies Annual Conference (Accepted). 20 November 2025, Atlanta, Georgia. Panel Presentation
• “Listening to the Land as our Ecological Kin: African Indigenous Frameworks for Rethinking Community and Designing Justice in Ghana’s Gold Industry.” Conference on Community Writing. October 24 2025, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI. Panel Presentation
• “Doing the Work in Times of Uncertainty and Crisis.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, 12 April 2025, Baltimore Convention Center. Coalition for Community Writing Mentorship Workshop
• “In Search of Gold and Healing: Global Flows, Resource Colonialism, and Rivers in Ghana.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference, 24 May 2024, Sheraton Denver Downtown. National Consortium of Environmental Rhetoric and Writing Panel
• “Being Black Elsewhere: Activating Radical Imagination Across Borders.” Conference on Community Writing, 13 Oct 2023, Hilton Denver City Center. 
• “Community Writing Showcase: Epistemologies for Enacting Hope.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, 17 Feb 2023, Chicago Hilton. 
• “Resisting Linguistic Injustice: Epistemological Decolonization and Stranger-Relationality as Viable Rhetorical Arts.” Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Baltimore Marriott Waterfront, 28 May 2022. Panel Presentation.
• “Framing Female Muslim Politicians in the U.S. Media: A Critical Discourse Analysis.” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Conference, Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center, MI, 5 Aug 2022. Panel Presentation.
• “Putting Difference to Work: How Wearing the Hijab, Identifying with the Church, and Translating Anti-Racism Can Redesign Institutions,” Conference on  Community Writing, Whova, 22 Oct 2021. Panel Presentation.
• “Students’ Language Identities and Teacher Pedagogies.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, ISSUU, 10 April 2021. Panel Presentation.
• “Everyone has an Accent: Demystifying Fear of Accents and Building Community in the Writing  Classroom.” Arizona State University Composition Conference. Tempe, AZ. 15 Feb 2020.
• “Biopolitics, the Hijab, and the Future of Rhetorical Projects.” Association of Rhetoric and Writing Studies Conference. Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol, 8 Nov 2019. Panel Presentation.
• “Veiled Muslim Women Navigating Public Spaces.” Conference on Rhetoric and   Religion. University of Tennessee, 6 Oct 2018. Panel Presentation.

Honors & Awards

• 2025 Weiss Chair Summer Faculty Fellow, Pennsylvania State University
• 2025 Scholarly Writing Retreat Fellow, Rhetoric Society of America
• 2023 Graduate College Completion Fellowship, Arizona State University
• 2022 Marvin Fisher Award for Teaching and Research, Arizona State University
• 2021 Emerging Scholars Fellow, Coalition for Community Writing
• 2019 Outstanding Graduate Student Award, University of Texas at El Paso
• 2017 Medal of Excellence in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. Ministry of Education, Saudi Arabia