My research focuses on innovation discourses, with particular attention to the relationship between innovation, research, and knowledge production. I examine how ideas of innovation are shaped, negotiated, and institutionalized within research, educational, and policy contexts.

Drawing on rhetorical theory, I investigate how certain actors are granted legitimacy and agency, and how particular ideas come to be recognized as innovative while others are marginalized. Innovation is thus understood not merely as the development of new solutions, but as a discursive practice in which values, norms, and conceptions of value creation are continuously negotiated.

I teach courses in innovation and rhetoric with a focus on  innovation practices in the humanities. In my teaching, I explore how innovation processes are simultaneously technical, social, and rhetorical. I am particularly interested in humanistically grounded innovation practices and innovation ethics.