Gabriella Wilson-Kopko, M.A., Ph.D.

Gabriella Wilson-Kopko is an assistant professor of english at Towson University. She graduated with her doctorate in rhetoric and composition from Syracuse University in 2025. She is a teacher and researcher trained in Rhetoric and Composition as well as Women and Gender Studies.

She received the 2026 CCCC James Berlin Memorial Outstanding Dissertation Award for her dissertation, titled "Disabling Structures: Disability and Graduate Student Professionalization,” which explores the professional identity construction of disabled graduate students in rhetoric and composition to consider material recommendations for creating accessible departmental structures and fostering a culture of access.

Wilson-Kopko’s scholarly writing covers a range of topics but tends to focus on digital writing pedagogy and accessibility; Her work can be found in Composition Studies, Peitho, The Journal of Multimodal Rhetoric, and Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture. She is also the co-editor of Rhetorica Rising: Feminist Rhetorical Methods for Social Change (University of South Carolina, 2025).