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Professor
Department Chair
Rhetoric
and composition is my primary field of study. My teaching includes
undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetorical theory, composition,
and women's literature. My administrative duties currently include serving as Chair of the English Department.
My research examines
the cultural presence and/or absence of women's voices. For example, Anglo-American Feminist Challenges to the Rhetorical
Traditions studies how women's voices emerge in western rhetorical traditions. Who's Having This Baby? studies how women's voices emerge (or not) in
literary and lived birthing narratives. Rhetorical Listening
studies troubled identifications with gender and whiteness in
public debates, rhetorical scholarship, and composition pedagogy.
As a
past president of the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric
& Composition and as a current member of MLA's Division on Teaching Writing and of CCCC's Task Force on Databases, I am active nationally in professional organziations.
And when not I'm not busy with teaching or research, you can find
me in my garden or at the movies.
Bibliography
for Symposium on Whiteness Studies, Rhetoric Review (Fall
2005)
Teaching Fields
- Rhetoric and Compositon
- Women's Studies
- Feminist Theory
Office
Location & Contact
Office
Hours
- SPRING 2008
- PLEASE CALL 288-7179 for appointments
Teaching
Schedule
- SPRING 2008
- 106/1001 TUTH 11:00-12:15
Research Interests
- Listening as a Rhetorical Art
- Feminist Theories of Rhetoric
- Women's Voices in the History of Rhetoric
- Critical Race Studies, including Whiteness Studies
Selected Publications
- Anglo-American Feminist Challenges to the Rhetorical Traditions: Virginia Woolf, Mary Daly, and Adrienne Rich. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1996.
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Who’s Having This Baby?: Perspectives on Birthing. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State UP, 2002.
(Co-authored with Helen Sterk, Carla Hay, Alice Kehoe, and Leona VandeVusse).
- Rhetorical Listening: Identification, Gender, Whiteness. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 2005.
- “Cultural Autobiographics: Complicating the ‘Personal Turns’ in Rhetoric and Composition Studies.” The Private, the Public, and the Published: Reconciling Private Lives and Public Rhetoric. Eds. Thomas Kent and Barbara Couture. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2004 .
- “Whiteness Studies.” Rhetoric Review.24 (2005): 359-373.
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“Coming Out: Or, How Adrienne Rich’s Feminist Theory Complicates Intersections of Rhetoric and Composition Studies, Cultural Studies, and Writing Program Administration.” Rhetorica Redefines Theory, Pedaogy, Practice. Eds. Joy Ritchie and Kate Ronald. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann P, 2006.
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