UMass Boston

rhetorical theory, queer feminist rhetorics, rhetoric and composition pedagogy

PhD, University of Minnesota

MA, The University of West Florida

BS, Eastern Michigan University

Edited Collection

Oleksiak, Timothy, and Joshua Barsczewski, eds. Adequate: Rewriting the Logics of Success in Rhetoric and Composition. Utah State University Press, 2026.

Articles and Book Chapters

Restaino, Jessica, and Timothy Oleksiak. “Desiring Consent: A Reflexive Methodology for Feminist Research.” Rhetorica Rising. Eileen E. Schell, K.J. Rawson, Curtis J. Jewell, Abigail H. Long, Sidney Turner, and Gabriella Wilson, eds. University of South Carolina Press, 2025, pp. 175-92.

Oleksiak, Timothy. “Necessary Foreclosures, or Notes on Consent as a Practice of Writing.” Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminist Rhetoric, edited by Jacqueline Rhodes and Suban Nur Cooley, 2025, pp. 297-303.

Oleksiak, Timothy. “Composing Consent as a Response to the Challenge of Openness.” College English, vol. 84, no. 5, 2022, pp. 429-446.

Oleksiak, Timothy. “On Taking the Bottom’s Stance, or Not Your Typical Submissive.” The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric, edited by Jonathan Alexander and Jacqueline Rhodes, Routledge, 2022, pp. 357-364.

Oleksiak, Timothy. “Slow Peer Review in the Writing Classroom.” Critical Reading and Writing in the Era of Fake News a special issue of Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, vol. 21, no. 2, 2021, pp. 369-383.

Oleksiak, Timothy. “A Queer Praxis for Peer Review.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 72, no. 2, 2020, pp. 306-332.

Editorial Projects

Philips, Samuel, Violet Livingston, Timothy Oleksiak, and Stephanie West-Puckett. “Informed Refusal: Theories, Pedagogies, and Methods for Imagining Consent in English Studies” in Informed Refusal: Theories, Pedagogies, and Methods for Imagining Consent in English Studies special issue of College English, vol. 88, no. 2, 2025.

Oleksiak, Timothy, Jamila M. Kareem, Amy Lueck, and Ligia Mihut, Editorial Team. Conference on College Composition and Communication Companion Publication. NCTE, 2024.

Oleksiak, Timothy, and Jonathan Alexander, editors. Queer Generosity a special issue of QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, vol. 8, no. 3, 2021.

Oleksiak, Timothy, editor. Queering Rhetorical Listening a special cluster conversation in Peitho: The Journal of The Coalition for Feminist Scholars for the History of Rhetoric and Composition, vol. 23, no. 1, 2020.

Media Appearances (select)

“Episode 101: Timothy Oleksiak.” Pedagogue, 23 Feb 2022

CURRENT PROJECTS

Oleksiak, Timothy. Cruising Texts: A Different Vision for Student Peer Review. (MS in progress)

Timothy Oleksiak. “‘What’s the Point of This?’: Using Tropes and Cultural Logics to Resist Binary Argument in Inquiry-Based Research Projects” in Teaching and Learning with Rhetorical Listening edited by Jessica Rivera-Mueller and Krista Ratcliffe.

Invited Talks

University of West Florida’s Composition Symposium. October 27, 2023. Keynote.

Conference Presentations (select)

“Of Rituals and Rites/Rights.” Rhetoric Society of America 22^nd Biannual Conference. Portland, OR. May 2026. Chair and Presenter

“Queers in Public Space.” Rhetoric Society of America 22^nd Biannual Conference. Portland, OR. May 2026. Chair and Presenter

“Editing and Publishing in Writing Studies: Practical and Ethical Considerations in Scholarly Reviewing Practices.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Cleveland, OH. March 2026. Chair

“From Theory of Labor to the Practice of Slow Work in the Writing Classroom.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Cleveland, OH. March 2026. Chair and Presenter

“To Care for Our Dead: Mourning and Memory as Feminist Practice.” Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference. Durham, NH. July 2025. Chair and Presenter

“The Present and Future State of Editing and Publishing in Writing Studies.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Baltimore, MD. May 2025. Organizer and moderator.

“Bottoming Drafts: A Queer Orientation toward Revision.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Baltimore, MD. May 2025.

COURSES TAUGHT

ENGL 379: Special Topics – Trans Rhetorics

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

National Elected Service

Conference on College Composition and Communication, Executive Committee (2021-2024)

Editorial/Review Boards

QED: A Journal in LGBTQ Worldmaking, 2021-2024

Peitho: A Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition, 2022-2025

Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 2019-2023

UNIVERSITY SERVIVE

University of Massachusetts Boston Faculty Council, Associate Chair (2024-2028)

Professional and New Media Writing Program, Director (2018-present)