Blackburn College is excited to announce the addition of Dr. Chloe Cardosi to the Department of English. Dr. Cardosi joined Blackburn in January 2025 as a specialist in rhetoric and composition with a strong background in public rhetorics, community engagement, and inclusive writing pedagogy.
Cardosi completed her Ph.D. in Public Rhetorics and Community Engagement at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in July 2025. Her dissertation, titled Memory, Mascots, and Midwestern Identity: On the Necessity of Critical Forgetting, explores the lingering cultural impact of racist mascots in Midwestern communities.
Her scholarly work has been published in College Composition and Communication and Composition Studies, and she has presented nationally at the Conference on College Composition and Communication and the Conference on Community Writing. Her areas of expertise include public memory, cultural rhetorics, qualitative methods, and linguistic justice.
Cardosi has taught a wide range of writing and rhetoric courses at UW–Milwaukee, including first-year composition, business writing, rhetoric and culture, and communication for STEM students. She also served in several administrative leadership roles, including Graduate Assistant Director of Composition and First-Year Composition Mentor, where she designed TA orientations, mentored new instructors, and developed curriculum focused on Critical Language Awareness and inclusive pedagogies.
Her professional accomplishments include fellowships such as the Tinsley Helton Dissertation Fellowship and the James A. Sappenfield Fellowship, as well as participation in the Bedford New Scholars Advisory Board through Macmillan Learning. She was also a recipient of the Antiracist Campus Action Grant, co-leading campus-wide workshops on equitable assessment practices.
Beyond academia, Cardosi has contributed to civic initiatives, serving as a writing intern with the Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association and as a co-editor of Writing & Rhetoric MKE, a blog that centers literacy, justice, and public writing.