About

Kimberly teaches Rhetorical Arts for the Communication Studies Department and the Core Curriculum at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) in Los Angeles, CA (2019 – present). Before joining the faculty at LMU, she taught for the Program in Writing and Rhetoric (PWR) at Stanford University for 13 years (2005 – 2018).  She completed her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, where she held various teaching and administrative positions and served as an Assistant Course Director for Undergraduate Writing.

Kimberly has taught various undergraduate writing seminars on themes such as the rhetoric of places and spaces, sustainable energy, invasive species, and the discourse of global environmental controversies. Additionally, she has served as a writing consultant for graduate students in various disciplines and co-taught a graduate seminar sponsored by the Stanford School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences and the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER), with support from the Hume Center for Writing and Speaking.

Kimberly’s current writing and research interests include issues at the intersection of environmental rhetoric and environmental ethics, focusing on sustainable energy, eco humanities pedagogy, and the rhetoric of environmental politics in America. She has published both in edited volumes and in peer-reviewed journals on the critical role of rhetoric in environmental controversies and on the concept of writing studies as an ideal disciplinary arena for engaging undergraduates in conversations about sustainability.

In 2014, Kimberly became a “Climate Leader” for the Climate Reality Leadership Project. Climate Leaders are volunteers from numerous fields who collaborate responsibly with their peers to make climate change part of daily conversation and connect the dots between extreme weather and the global reality of climate change. Kimberly is also a Communications Consultant for the all-volunteer, non-profit organization Parvati.org, creator of the Marine Arctic Peace Sanctuary (MAPS) Treaty. The treaty calls for an amendment to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). It declares the Arctic Ocean north of the Arctic Circle a marine sanctuary free from exploitation, including commercial shipping, fishing, drilling, and seismic testing. The organization is collecting the necessary 99 signatures from UN member states (including those with territory in the Arctic Ocean) to realize its groundbreaking goal.