Faculty in Writing & Rhetoric

Dr. Helen O'Grady

Roosevelt 323                     
(401) 874-4046
hogrady@mail.uri.edu

Lecturer

Education:  BA, MA, Fordham University; PhD, University of Rhode Island

Teaching Interests: General Education Writing; Writing in the Disciplines; Business Communications; Technical Writing

Courses Recently Taught: WRT 104, WRT 105, WRT 227

Recent and Forthcoming Publications:

• "Trafficking in Freeway Flyers (Re)Viewing Literacy, Working Conditions, and Quality Instruction” in Moving a Mountain: Improving Part-Time Working Conditions (NCTE).
• “Fragments in Response: An Electronic Discussion of Lester Faigley’s Fragments of Rationality.” with Nedra Reynolds et al. College Composition and Communication, Vol. 45. 

Professional Activities: Business Communications Consultant; presenter, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Wyoming Conference on English, National Adjunct Faculty Guild; member, NCTE; CCCC.
 
Current Research Interests: Critical Literacy Theories and Pedagogy; Intersections between Rhetorical Theory and Literary Criticism; Writing Instruction and Contingent Labor Issues.