Current Projects

Mellon Grant Award: "Re-Storying the West for a Transformative Future: We Are Wyoming"

Primary Investigator, $850,000 over three years

This grant will fund a state-wide storywork project extending out to at least 20 Wyoming communities. A team of faculty and graduate students will adapt a range of oral history/public humanities methods for the purposes of supporting everyday citizens in telling about their own lived experiences in the state.  Initial press release is available here. 

Manuscripts in Process

Single Author

• Small, N. Estelle Reel  [working title]: Monograph using a braided methodology and deep archival research to consider an early proto-feminist’s accomplishments and implications at the state and national levels. Book-length project intended for Series in Rhetorics and Feminisms, Parlor Press. Current draft is ~55,000 words

• Small, N. Pantaloonatics of Wyoming: Rhetoric and Public Memory [working title]: Monograph blending memory, storytelling, interviews with contemporary women, and rhetorical analysis of women’s suffrage symbolism. Book-length project intended for Utah State University Press. Current draft is ~28,000 words

• Small, N. Braided art: rhetorical craft. Intended for Writers: Craft and Context. Submitted for review Sept. 2024. 

• Small, N. Red-faced in Wyoming: Public memory and questions of “just rhetoric.” Rhetoric Society of America’s 2024 Biennial Conference. Submitted for review, October 14, 2024.

More on my in-process monographs is available via this link.

Collaborative

• Small, N. & Gernant, A. Sustained role-playing games for cultivating critical empathy. Accepted for publication in L. Blankenship  & E. Leake (Eds.) Empathy and the Other: Difference, Connection, and the Teaching of Writing. In post-external review revision, Utah State University Press, Sept. 2024.

• Acosta, K., Cowan, M., Rickly, R., Sinor, S., Small, N., & Stone, E. M. Storied Practices: Positionality in Writing Studies. Proposal accepted by Practices and Possibilities, CSU Press/WAC Clearinghouse. Submitted for external review, Sept. 2024.

• Kinney, K., Small, N. & Stewart, J. Both/And in Wyoming: Dislocation, uncertainty, and expanding masters-level graduate assistantships in composition and rhetoric. Under revision 

• Fishman, J., LaFrance, M., Rickly, B., & Small, N. Unsettling Stories: A Feminist Narrative Inquiry [working title]. In process. Book-length, co-authored. Currently ~20,000+ words