Dr. Sergio Figueiredo

Associate Chair, Department of English
Professor of English

sfigueir@kennesaw.edu 
Office: EB 165C

Sergio C. Figueiredo is Professor in the Department of English at Kennesaw State University. Born and raised in southern New Jersey to two immigrants from rural Portugal, he attended Rowan University for his undergraduate work in literary studies, Marshall University for his master’s work in rhetoric and composition, and Clemson University for his doctoral work in rhetorics, communication, and information design. Sergio has been teaching at Kennesaw State University since August 2012.

His current research focuses on the early-nineteenth century literary, artistic, and rhetorical avant-garde and explores how histories of rhetoric influenced the role early socialist thinkers. In a vanguard whose charge would be to lead social thought toward the well-being of individuals and societies. This work serves as the foundation for a future project exploring the potential of using this theory of the avant-garde to re-organize the arts and humanities for the demands of life in the twenty-first century.

He is the translator of Inventing Comics: A New Translation of Rodolphe Töpffer’s Essays on Graphic Storytelling, Media Rhetorics, and Aesthetic Practice (Parlor Press, 2017) and co-editor of the collection, Immigrant Scholars in Rhetoric, Composition, and Communication: Memoirs of a First Generation (NCTE, 2019).

• Link to CV (coming soon)

• Concentration Area(s)
  • Applied Writing
  • Composition and Rhetoric
• MAPW Courses Taught
  • PRWR 6240 Technical Writing
  • PRWR 6550 Document Design and Desktop Publishing
  • PRWR 6570 Writing for Social Media
  • PRWR 6850 Web Content Development
  • PRWR 7900 Special Topics: Writing Graphic Novels
• Select Publications
  • Guglielmo, Letizia, and Sergio C. Figueiredo (eds.). Immigrant Scholars in Rhetoric, Composition, and Communication: Memoirs of a First Generation. NCTE Books, 2019.
  • Figueiredo, Sergio C. Inventing Comics: A New Translation of Rodolphe Töpffer’s Reflections on Graphic Storytelling, Media Rhetorics, and Aesthetic Practice. Trans. Sergio C. Figueiredo. Anderson, SC: Parlor Press, 2017.
  • Figueiredo, Sergio C. “Rodolphe Töpffer and the Histories of Rhetoric.” Lost and Found Texts in Rhetoric and Composition. Ed. Deborah Holdstein. MLA, 2023.
  • Figueiredo, Sergio C. “Rhetoric in the Metaverse” Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (Online First; Nov. 2022). Eds. Scott Sundvall and Jernej Markelj.
  • Figueiredo, Sergio C., and Jeffrey D. Greene. “Dromopoeia: Teaching Ēthopoeia, Phrōnesis, and Social Responsibility with Avatar.” The Ethics of Playing, Researching, and Teaching Games in the Writing Classroom. Eds. Rebekah Colby, Richard Colby, and Matthew S. S. Johnson. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
  • Figueiredo, Sergio C. “From Orality to Electracy: A Mystory” in Immigrant Scholars in Rhetoric, Composition, and Communication: Memoirs of a First Generation. Eds. Letizia Guglielmo and Sergio C. Figueiredo. NCTE Books, 2019.