Rebecca S. Richards is an Associate Professor of English. Her research and teaching explore the intersection of rhetoric, gender and sexuality, and media. Her first book, Transnational Feminist Rhetorics and Gendered Leadership in Global Politics: From Daughters of Destiny to Iron Ladies (2015), analyzes how gendered concepts circulate among women who have been world leaders. Her work also appears in journals like Feminist Formations, Feminist Teacher, and Kairos, as well as in edited collections like Hillary Rodham Clinton and the 2016 Election. Her second book, Not Playing Around: Feminist and Queer Rhetorics in Video Games (2024), is published by Parlor Press in the Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms series. Not Playing Around examines how videogames function rhetorically to have material, affective, and embodied consequences related to issues of gender and sexuality. She also created and edits an undergraduate student portal for video game research called, Thoughtful Play.