Codi Renee Blackmon is a scholar, teacher, and activist who works in the related fields of technical, professional, and scientific communication, rhetoric, and writing studies. Before joining Johns Hopkins, she taught academic and technical writing at the University of Tampa and at East Carolina University, where she received the Bertie Fearing Award for Excellence in Teaching by GTAs.
Dr. Blackmon holds a Ph.D. in Rhetoric, Writing, and Professional Communication from East Carolina University, where she also earned graduate certificates in Racial Equity and Professional Communication. Dr. Blackmon’s dissertation scholarship explores how Black, Latinx, Asian, Indigenous, and Women of Color navigate white-dominant digital recovery spaces and introduces an ethical framework for addressing systemic inequities in technical and professional communication contexts. Her research and advocacy have been recognized with multiple honors, including the CPTSC Diversity Scholarship, the CPTSC Graduate Research Award, and the ATTW Graduate Research Award. Her work appears in Programmatic Perspectives and constellations: a cultural rhetorics journal. She co-edited the special issue on digital activisms in Technical Communication and Social Justice (Vol. 3, No. 1), and she is a co-editor for the forthcoming volume Practicing Digital Activisms. Other projects include a co-authored piece for Rhetoric Review on mentorship and a co-authored chapter on "Recovery Rhetorics"for the Routledge Rhetoric of Health & Medicine Handbook.
In her teaching and service, Dr. Blackmon is committed to equity and access. Her activism centers on racial equity and culturally responsive communication in both academic and community contexts. Dr. Blackmon developed and facilitates the "GSI Institute on Race and Ethnicity," offering justice-oriented and antiracist training to graduate student instructors teaching technical, professional, and/or scientific writing courses at primarily white institutions. She serves on the Accountability for Equity and Inclusion Committee for the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) and facilitates identity-based recovery groups through the SHE RECOVERS® Foundation. She regularly presents on anti-racist pedagogy, inclusive writing program design, and ethical professional and scientific communication.
More information can be found at https://crblackmon.wixsite.com/teaching.
Technical and Professional Communication (TPC)
Social Justice
Social Justice
Race and ethnicity
Digital rhetorics and activism
Feminist, antiracist, and trauma-informed pedagogies
Inclusive writing programs and graduate education
Culturally responsive approaches
Community-based writing and public engagement
Recovery rhetorics
Qualitative research methods and autoethnography
Qualitative research methods and autoethnography
"Introduction to Special Issue on Digital Activism, Pedagogy, and Advocacy." Technical Communication and Social Justice. With Nicole Allen, Mina Bikmohammadi, Codi Renee Blackmon, Amanda Patterson Partin, William Banks, Erin Clark, Desiree Dighton, and Michelle Eble.
"Emerging Ethics: Teaching Communication Design in Professional Writing Courses" SIGDOC '24: Proceedings of the 42nd ACM International Conference on Design of Communication. With Michelle Eble, S. B. McCullouch, and Steven Amador.
"On Developing a TPC Program Graduate Orientation" Programmatic Perspectives.
"Black Tech Matters: A Review of Charlton McIlwain’s Black Software" constellations: A cultural rhetorics journal.
"The Image of the African in Early Europe." McNair Scholars Research Journal.
"Metaphysical Poetry: A History and a Legacy." McNair Scholars Research Journal.