Lucy Johnson is a Doctoral Candidate in Rhetoric and Composition at Washington State University. Her research focuses on visual and digital rhetoric, tracing early contact-era Latin American rhetoric and contemporary visual literacy and hybrid composing through the lens of decolonial theory. Prior to pursuing her PhD, she earned her MA in English Pedagogy at Northern Michigan University, focusing on the application of multimodal pedagogy within first-year composition. The contemporary component of her current research focuses on the Japanese Unicode system of emoji and the iterations of updates and design shifts within the keyboard as both a response to globalization and in turn, the appropriation of its symbols.
