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Helen O'Grady

Helen O'Grady, Ph.D.

Lecturer

Office: Roosevelt 324
Office Hours: T: 1:00 - 2:00; TH: 2:00 - 3:00; and by appointment
Phone: (401) 874-4046
E-mail: hogrady@mail.uri.edu
Degrees: Fordham University; 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/or Forthcoming Publications:
  • "Thinking Vertically" (co-authored with Kim Hensley Owens, Libby Miles, Michael Pennell, Jeremiah Dyehouse, Nedra Reynolds, Robert Schwegler, and Linda Shamoon) College Composition and Communication 59.3 (2008): 503-511.
  • "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.

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