Gabrielle Kelenyi

Teaching Interests: composition pedagogy; community literacies; antiracism and activism in writing studies; writing about writing; writing processes; community engagement

Research Interests:  community literacies; composition pedagogy; qualitative community-engaged and participatory methodologies; antiracist writing program/center administration; writing development across the lifespan

Selected Publications

Kelenyi, Gabrielle Isabel. “Feeling Like a Writer: Composing & Publishing Writer’s Memos in a University-Adjacent Writing Group for Low-Income Adults.” Community Literacy Journal. October 2025.

Kelenyi, Gabrielle Isabel, Seader, Chad, Turner, Alison, and Stephanie Wade. “Editors’ Introduction: An Alphabet of Resistance.” Coda: Community Writing and Creative Work, Community Literacy Journal. October 2025.

Kelenyi, Gabrielle Isabel; Paz, Enrique; McNamara, Thomas; & Jasmine Castillo. “Who’s doing the Labor? Consequences and Material Realities of the Watson Conference.” Writers: Craft & Context (forthcoming)

Kelenyi, Gabrielle Isabel & Aidan DiCarlo ‘26. “Community Listening as a Different Orientation to Audience & Feedback.” Writing Spaces (forthcoming).

Kelenyi, Gabrielle Isabel. “Promoting Belonging among Adult Learners through Sharing & Feedback.” WAC Journal. July 2025.

Kelenyi, Gabrielle Isabel; Gonzalez, Marisol; & Tiffani Puccio. “Powers in Positionalities: Un-Hierarchizing Relationships in Community-Engaged Writing Studies Research.” Storied Practices: Positionality in Writing Studies, WAC Clearinghouse (forthcoming).

Kelenyi, Gabrielle Isabel. “Participatory Pedagogies: An approach to meeting the needs and elevating the desires of adult undergraduate writers.” The Sandbox: Short Papers, Big Ideas. Community Literacies Collaboratory.

Kelenyi, Gabrielle Isabel. “(Re)Visioning WPA-GO.” Understanding WPA Readiness & Renewal. Peter Lang International Publishers Studies in Composition and Rhetoric Series. 2023.

Kelenyi, Gabrielle Isabel. “Hitting Pause on Productivity: Finding Mindful Labor in Quarantine.” Recollections from an Uncommon Time: 4C20 Documentarian Tales. CCCC Studies in Writing and Rhetoric Series (SWR). 2023.

Kelenyi, Gabrielle Isabel. “For the Love of Writing: Writing as a Form of (Self-) Love.” Writers: Craft & Context, vol. 2, no. 1, Feb. 2021, pp. 16-24, DOI: https://doi.org/10.15763/issn.2688-9595.2021.2.1.16-24.