Curriculum Vitae

I’m a researcher, teacher, writer, and designer focused on technical communication, UX/UI, and digital spaces.

Education

Michigan State University - in-progress PhD in Rhetoric and Writing

Miami University - MA in Composition and Rhetoric

Miami University - BA in Professional Writing

I am currently a graduate teaching assistant at Michigan State University, teaching XA375/Information Architecture.

Prior to this, I have been:

The Graduate Writing Coordinator and a writing consultant at The Writing Center @MSU.
A graduate teaching assistant at MSU, from 2022-2024, teaching WRA 101/Writing as Inquiry.
An editorial assistant for the ATTW book series, in 2022.
A graduate teaching assistant at Miami University, from 2020 to 2022, where I taught ENG 111/Intro to Composition and Rhetoric.
A business development representative at ConstructConnect, in 2020.
And a content specialist at ConstructConnect, from 2019 to 2020.

I’ve taken a number of courses during my graduate studies that have shaped me into the researcher, teacher, writer, and designer I am today:

WRA 841 – Professional Writing Theory and Research

WRA 860 – Multimodal Composing Theory and Practice

WRA 878 – Composition Studies: Issues, Theory, and Research

WRA 891 – Fundamentals of Experience Architecture

ENG 720 – Issues in Digital Composition

ENG 730 – Composition Research & Pedagogy/Writing Program Administration

ENG 732 – Histories & Theories of Composition

ENG 737 – Contemporary Theories of Rhetoric

ENG 760 – Public Rhetorics

ENG 770 – Professional Writing Theory

I served as a Gayle Morris Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Graduate Fellow from 2023 through 2025.

I was also an XA committee representative and a Professional Development Chair for WRAP during the 23-24 academic year.

Golden, Nicole Koyuki & Alex Mashny. (2025). “Tactically Transgressive Teaching: Dis/Empowerment as Graduate Student-Instructors” Xchanges.
Mashny, Alex & Adam Strantz. (2023). “Dungeons & Discourse: Tactical Social Media Research Methods and theD&D Open Game License Case” SIGDOC (Conference Proceedings). https://doi.org/10.1145/3615335.3623034

“Don’t Look Away: Digital Ethics and Circulating “Extreme” Acts of Protest” Computers & Writing 2025
“Broadswords and Bleeding Edges: Tracing Platform Decay through Dungeons and Dragons Online Fan Communities” with Adam Strantz, Computers and Writing 2025
“Place-Based Reframing of Agency: The Intersection of Local Contexts and Digital Authorial Practices within the Digital Rhetoric Collaborative” Computers & Writing 2025
Assessment as “Everyday Practice:” Enacting Socially Just Community at Michigan State” with Nicole Koyuki Golden, Rimma Korchmit and Iyad Khattab, ECWCA 2025.
“Rhetorics, Poetics, and Artificial Intelligence: Reconfiguring AI Conversations in TPC” with the Sweetland DRC, SIGDOC 2024

“Who Gets to Speak?: Circulating Competing Narratives In Digital Spaces” Computers & Writing 2024
“Graduate Student Experiences with Digital Storytelling: Disrupting Inequity & Fostering Agency” Computers & Writing 2024
“Being Tactically Transgressive: Liberatory Pedagogies in Writing Classrooms” with Nicole Koyuki Golden, ATTW 2024
“Dungeons & Discourse: Tactical Social Media Research Methods and the D&D Open Game License Case” with Adam Strantz, SIGDOC 2023
“Coalitions and Communities: Theorizing Compliance and Capacity to Comply” ATTW 2023
“Rhetorical Sovereignty & UX” SIGDOC 2022

I’m currently anticipating finishing my dissertation and graduating either in the spring of 2026 or 2027. Currently, I'm working on my exams.
You can see examples of my work in my portfolio, linked here (and at the top of this site).
Yes, I am open to freelance work, consulting, and other projects. Please contact me using this form.