Sojin Cho

Sojin (she/they) is a PhD candidate whose current project centers artists’ books as models for multimodal and embodied writing, bridging rhetoric and composition, performance studies, and the visual arts. Through object analysis, fieldwork, autoethnographic making, and classroom-based research, the project examines how artists’ books illuminate writing as a material, performative act and open new pedagogical possibilities for writers at the margins of academic discourse.

Sojin is deeply committed to first-year writing pedagogy and has designed and taught multiple sections of Seminar in Composition, including a capstone unit where students remediated essays into handcrafted artists’ books. Their pedagogy emphasizes multimodal composing, critical making, and inclusive practices that recognize the embodied dimensions of literacy. More broadly, their teaching and research interests span performance in writing, feminist materialist rhetorics, queer and trans studies, and transnational writing.

Before coming to Pitt, Sojin worked in Seoul as a translator for art museums, artists, curators, and queer activists, as well as with the Voice Art Community Psychotherapy Center, where they collaborated with art therapists to conduct studio-based making workshops. They hold an M.A. in Rhetoric and Writing from Yonsei University and a B.A. in Psychology from New York University.