Current Projects

Mellon Grant Award: "Re-Storying the West for a Transformative Future: We Are Wyoming"

Primary Investigator, $850,000 over three years

This grant will fund a state-wide storywork project extending out to at least 20 Wyoming communities. A team of faculty and graduate students will adapt a range of oral history/public humanities methods for the purposes of supporting everyday citizens in telling about their own lived experiences in the state.  Initial press release is available here. 

Manuscripts in Process

Single Author/Single Editor

• Small, N. Estelle Reel  [working title]: Monograph using a braided methodology and deep archival research to consider an early proto-feminist’s accomplishments and implications at the state and national levels. Book-length project intended for Series in Rhetorics and Feminisms, Parlor Press. Current draft is ~55,000 words

• Small, N. Pantaloonatics of Wyoming: Rhetoric and Public Memory [working title]: Monograph blending memory, storytelling, interviews with contemporary women, and rhetorical analysis of women’s suffrage symbolism. Book-length project intended for Utah State University Press. Current draft is ~28,000 words

• Small, N. Braided art: rhetorical craft. Intended for Writers: Craft and Context. Submitted for review Sept. 2024. 

• Small, N. Red-faced in Wyoming: Public memory and questions of “just rhetoric.” Rhetoric Society of America’s 2024 Biennial Conference. Accepted, waiting on production.

• Small, N. (Ed.). Research Methods for Public Humanities. In process. Will be submitted for initial consideration by end of June 2025.

More on my in-process monographs is available via this link.

Collaborative

N.B. All collaborative project authors are listed in alphabetical order. Contributions are equal.

• Gernant, A. & Small, N. Sustained role-playing games for cultivating critical empathy. In L. Blankenship & E. Leake (Eds.), Enacting Empathy: Stories and Strategies from the Writing Classroom. Utah State University Press. Waiting on galley proofs.  

• Acosta, K., Cowan, M., Rickly, R., Small, N., & Stone, E. M. (Eds.). Positionality in Writing Studies Research: Pedagogies and Practices for Relational Accountability [working title]. Submitted for external review September 2024.

• Patton, T. & Small, N. Furious dancing: Counterstory as critical communication pedagogy. In Deanna L. Fassett and C. Kyle Rudick (Eds), Handbook of Critical Communication Pedagogy. Wiley. Submitted to editors Jan 2025.

• Fishman, J., LaFrance, M., Rickly, R., & Small, N. Storymethod: Choose Your Own Adventure [working title]. In process. Book-length, co-authored. Currently ~53,000 words drafted.