Gabriel Lake Carter
Position title: Assistant Director, Center for Teaching and Research on Writing (CTRW)
Pronouns: he/him
Email: gcarter6@wisc.edu
Year Admitted: 2020
Bio
Gabriel Lake Carter is a PhD Candidate in English with a concentration in Composition & Rhetoric and a minor in Science & Technology Studies. Carter’s dissertation project considers the ways in which anti-drug rhetoric inculcates drug stigma and how such stigmatization contributes to the prohibitionist ideology of the ongoing drug war in the United States.
Interests
rhetoric, philosophy, and political economy
Degree and Institution
PhD Minor, Science & Technology Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2022
MA, English Studies, Western Washington University, 2019
BA, Philosophy and English (Literature), Whitworth University, 2017
Selected Publications
Carter, G.L. (2025). “Rhetorical Misattunement: Alienation, Hegemony, and Infrastructure in Drug War Politics.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly (online; expected next issue), doi.org/10.1080/02773945.2025.2466527.
Other
2021-2023, Treasurer, Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) Student Chapter
Personal Website: gabrielcarter.me