Wake Forest University
University of Vermont
Taylor Brough is an Anishinaabe and white scholar, writer, and thinker who works at the intersections of rhetoric, media studies, theories of settler colonialism and genocide, and feminist histories of reproduction. Taylor’s recently published works include an M.A. thesis, entitled “Counterinsurgency, Liberalism, & the Transmogrification of Radical Meaning” (2020) and “Eleazar, Native Debate, and the Stakes of Concession” (2023). Taylor holds an M.A. in Communication and a graduate certificate in Women and Gender Studies from Wake Forest University and a B.A. in Ethnic Studies (minor in Speech and Debate) from the University of Vermont. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in UC San Diego’s Communication department. Her dissertation work centers on how Native feminists might reimagine reproduction in contexts of settler colonial occupation and genocidal disappearance. She currently is Associate Head Coach of Wake Forest’s Debate Team and a Teaching Professor in the Communication Department.