Chandler Mordecai is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Middle Tennessee State University. She studies and teaches digital rhetoric, technical writing, multimodal composition, and digital literacy. Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersections of technofeminism, digital rhetoric, and Healing Justice, focusing on articulating connections among multimodal compositions and rhetorical writing strategies on digital platforms. She graduated from the University of Florida with her PhD in English, Writing, and Rhetoric in May 2025. Her scholarly work has appeared or is forthcoming in venues including Peitho, Computers and Compositions, Constellations, Image/Text, and Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies. Chandler is a native Alabamian and enjoys gluten-free baking, pilates, and walks with her two dogs, Luna and Sebastian. 

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Mordecai, Chandler. “Storiographies of #HealingJourney: Online Feminist Rhetorical Practices of Healing through Content Creation and Care,” Peitho, forthcoming, 2026.

Mordecai, Chandler, Miles Wine, A. Webb, Eli York, Harmon Fussell, and Wyatt Weaver. “Developing Reflexive Research Approaches through Multimodal Positionality Poems”. Image/Text: Interdisciplinary Comic Studies, forthcoming, 2026.  

Mordecai, Chandler. “‘For Anyone Who Needs This’: Embracing Healing, Reflection, and Care through Content Creation.” Proposal accepted and manuscript submitted to Bhandari, Aparajita and Sarah York-Bertram. Feminist Digital Methods. Forthcoming by Rutgers University Press. 

Anwesha Chattopadhyay, Dinalo Chakma, Judy Colindres, Felipe Gonzalez-Silva, Kaylee Lamb, Chandler Mordecai, Payal Nagpal, and Laura Gonzales. “Facilitating Stories of Immigration in North Central Florida”. Constellations: Cultural Rhetorics Publishing Space. 8, 2024

Mordecai, Chandler. “Confronting Institutionalized Misogyny: Reading Amelia Opie’s Adeline Mowbray in the #MeToo Era”. Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies. 20.1, 2024.

Mordecai, Chandler. “Pedagogical Approaches and Reflections in Zine Multimodal Composition”. Image/Text: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies. 15.1, 2024.

Mordecai, Chandler. “# anxiety: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Narrations of Anxiety on TikTok.” Computers and Composition 67, 2023.

Mordecai, Chandler. “Review of Laura Mattoon D’Amore’s Vigilante Feminists and Agents of Destiny Violence, Empowerment, and the Teenage Super/heroine”. ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies. 13.3, 2022.

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Rosenberg, Leah, Chandler Mordecai, Sasha Wells, Tristen Krammel, Nina Prouty, Alejandra Gama, Bella Fiorucci. “Bridging the Classroom, Community, and Collections”. Latin American and Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium.” Zoom. November 2025

Mordecai, Chandler. “Storiographies of #HealingJourney Content Creators and the Digital Rhetorics of Care.” (Re)Valuing the Creator Economy Preconference at National Communication Association. New Orleans, LA. November 2024. 

Mordecai, Chandler. “Fantasy, Fae, and Fashion: A Case Study of  #faepunk as a Digital Subculture on TikTok”. International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts. Orlando, FL. March 2024

Mordecai, Chandler. “Retelling through Playlist Pedagogy” Collage Arts Association. New York, NY, February 2023. 

Mordecai, Chandler. “#anxiety: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Narrations of anxiety on TikTok,” a Roundtable Presentation entitled “Positionality, Purpose, and Methodology in Social Media Research”, Computers and Writing, Greenville, NC, 2022. 

Mordecai, Chandler. Group Presentation: “Milton Garvey: A Case Study of West Indian Culture and Labor” Memory Lane: Exploring the Lives of Caribbean People at the Panama Canal in the 20th Century, Gainesville, FL, September 2022. https:// arcg.is/0TminL

Mordecai, Chandler. Building Communication in the Pandemic Classroom” Pedagogy Practice & Philosophy, University of Florida Writing Program, Gainesville, FL, February 1, 2022.

Mordecai, Chandler. "Gender Norm Production, Reproduction and Performance in Pride and Prejudice and Jane Austen’s Redefining of Femininity.” University of North Alabama Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, Florence, AL March 2021.

Mordecai, Chandler. “Liberation through Madness in “‘The Yellow Wallpaper’”. Sigma Tau Delta North Georgia Regional Conference. Virtual Conference, October 2020. 

Mordecai, Chandler. “The Lolita Effect and Social Learning Theory”. National Conference for Undergraduate Research, Kennesaw, GA, April 2019.        

Mordecai, Chandler. “Puerto Rico y los Estados Unidos: Territorialidad y Conflicto”     Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Conference on Latin American and Iberian Studies, Cleveland, TN March 2018.       

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