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Writing & Rhetoric

Faculty in Writing & Rhetoric

Libby Miles

Libby Miles, PhD

Director
Associate Professor

Office: Roosevelt 336
Phone: (401) 874-7417
E-mail: lmiles@uri.edu
Degrees: Williams College; Purdue University

Teaching Interests:
Rhetoric and social action; institutional discourse; interdisciplinary writing, especially maritime writing; travel and adventure writing; peer tutoring.

Courses Recently Taught: HPR 112, WRT 227, WRT 305, WRT 353, WRT 524, WRT 645

Recent and/or Forthcoming Publications:
  • "Rhetorical Work: Social Materiality, Kairos, and Changing the Terms." JAC 27.3/4 (2007): 743-758.
  • "Thinking Vertically." (co-authored with Kim Hensley Owens, Michael Pennell, Jeremiah Dyehouse, Helen O'Grady, Nedra Reynolds, Robert Schwegler, and Linda Shamoon) College Composition and Communication 59.3 (2008): 503-511.
  • The Practice of Problem-Based Learning: A Guide to Implementing Problem-Based Learning in the College Classroom (with Jose Amador and C.B. Peters). Anker Publising, 2006.
  • "Institutional Critique Revisited" (with Jeffrey T. Grabill, James E. Porter, and Stuart Blythe). Works & Days 41/42 (2003): 219-237.
  • "Constructing Composition: Reproduction and WPA Agency in Textbook Publishing." WPA: Writing Program Administration 24 (Fall/Winter, 2000): 29-53. (Received the "Best Article in WPA" for 1999-2000.)
  • "Disturbing Practices: Toward Institutional Change in Composition Scholarship and Pedagogy." College English 62(July 2000): 756-766.
  • "Institutional Critique: A Rhetorical Methodology for Change." With James E. Porter, Patricia Sullivan, Jeffrey T. Grabill, and Stuart Blythe. College Composition and Communication, 51 (June 2000): 610-642. (Received the 2001 CCCC Braddock Award.)
Professional Activities: CCCC Executive Committee; Reviewer for JAC, CCC, College English, WPA; Regular presenter at Conference on College Composition and Communication; Workshop leader for problem-based learning; College/school connections.

Current Research Interests: Interdisciplinary writing; composition textbook publishing; institutional critique; Problem-Based Learning.

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E-Portfolio Presentations

All seniors in the Writing & Rhetoric major complete an electronic portfolio through our capstone course, WRT 495. The Spring 2009 class, consisting of Sam Fuller, Jessica Notardonato, Samantha Notardonato, Rob Petrin, Tatiana M. Uhoch, and Emily Weintraub, marked the second year for graduating our pioneer Writing & Rhetoric majors.


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Upcoming Events

Friday, November 13th
Brown Bag: "The Collision of Science and Rhetoric, and a Lesson on How to Save a Bay" by Matthew Ortoleva
Where: The Writing Center, 4th Floor Roosevelt Hall
When: 1:00 pm - 2:00pm

This presentation, part of a two-year ethnographic study on how language and rhetorical acts are used to construct ecological relationships to Narragansett Bay, considers how Save The Bay, a professional environmental advocacy organization, enacts science discourses as a central focus of its activism on behalf of the ecological health of the Narragansett Bay watershed.