Carly Braxton

(She/Her)

braxt1cl@msu.edu

1855 Assistant Professor of Technical Writing and Healthcare Communication

Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures

Biography

Carly graduated with a PhD in English with a focus in Rhetoric and Writing Studies from Wayne State University. She also earned a Master of Arts in Higher Education from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Arts in Integrative Public Relations from Central Michigan University.

As a rhetoric of health and medicine researcher, she focuses on issues of linguistic justice and rhetorical flexibility in the context of the teaching of writing AND in health and medical communication. Specifically, her work challenges conventional notions of effective communication in healthcare, emphasizing the need to recognize and value linguistic diversity to foster more equitable interactions and outcomes. Carly is also an experienced teacher of writing, having taught classes such as first year writing, technical and professional writing and communication, and intermediate composition.

Works

Leavings, C., Braxton, C., & Ridgeway, J. (2025). ALL BLACK EVERYTHING: Exploring Hip-Hop Based Education in First-Year Composition. Pedagogy, 25(2), 155-172.

Jankens, A., Varty, N. G., Lindner, A., Jimenez, L., Mixon, A., Braxton, C., & Begian-Lewis, K. M. (2025). Same Conversational Page?. Journal of Effective Teaching in Higher Education, 7(2).

Braxton, C., Begian-Lewis, K. M., Marback, R., & Fritz, H. (2023). Pain, No Gain? A Narrative Analysis Exploring the Accounts of Older African American Patients and Their Discussion of Pain Management Related to Chronic Illness. Rhetoric of health & medicine, 6(2), 217.

FUSELIER-THOMPSON, D. I. A. N. E., MCPHERSON, E., & BRAXTON, C. (2023). Fictive Kin as Driving Forces for Academic Success in Detroit. Reauthoring Savage Inequalities: Narratives of Community Cultural Wealth in Urban Educational Environments.

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