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 organizations. And when not I'm not busy with teaching or research, you can find me in my garden or at the movies.
- Flier for 2009 CCCC Talk
- Bibliography for Symposium on Whiteness Studies, Rhetoric Review (Fall 2005)
- Rumors from Room 332 (Class Magazine for ENGL 104: Advanced Comp Fall 2008)
Teaching Fields
- Rhetoric and Composition
- Women's Studies
- Feminist Theory
Office Hours
FALL 2009
- By appointment (call 288.7179)
Teaching Schedule
FALL 2009
- 3210 - TUTH - 11:00
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
- Rhetorical Listening: Identification, Gender, Whiteness. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 2005.
- 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).
- 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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- “Coming Out: Or, How Adrienne Rich’s Feminist Theory Complicates Intersections of Rhetoric and Composition Studies, Cultural Studies, and Writing Program Administration.” Rhetoric Redefines Theory, Pedagogy, Practice. Eds. Joy Ritchie and Kate Ronald. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann P, 2006.
- “Whiteness Studies.” Rhetoric Review.24 (2005): 359-373.
- “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 .
Honors/Awards
- Selected as Marquette University's Nominee for the 2008 U.S. Professor of the Year Awarad
- Appointed to a 3-year term on the Advisory Committee for PMLA, the journal of the Modern Language Association. 2008-11
- Invited Speaker at 2008 Summer Seminar in Rhetoric and Composition. Michigan State University
- Invited to present the Kenneth Burke Lecture at Penn State University, 2008
- Elected to to Rhetoric Society of America's Executive Board, 2007-10
- Elected to MLA's Division on Teaching of Writing, 2006-2010
- Invited to present Keynote at Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference, 2007
- Awarded CCCC Outstanding Book Award (for Rhetorical Listening), 2007
- Awarded Rhetoric Society of America Book Award (for Rhetorical Listening), 2007
- Awarded JAC Gary Olson Award (for Rhetorical Listening), 2006
- Awarded CCCC Writing Program Certificate of Excellence (For Marquette University's First-Year English Program), 2006
- Awarded Marquette University Award for Teaching Excellence (Robert and Mary Gettel Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence), 2005
- Awarded Marquette University Student Affairs Award, 2004
- Awarded Education School Grant for Computer Training to redesign First-Year Writing Program, Marquette University, 2002
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