Faculty in Writing & Rhetoric

Dr. Kim Hensley Owens

Roosevelt 326                     
(401) 874-4643
okhensley@gmail.com

Assistant Professor

PhD: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Teaching Interests: Writing and Rhetoric, FYC, ethnography, scientific and technical writing, rhetorics of reproduction, feminist theory.

Courses Recently Taught: WRT 104, WRT 490

Recent and/or Forthcoming Publications:

• "Revelations and Representations: Birth Stories and Motherhood on the Internet." in Textual Mothers, Maternal Texts: Representations of Mothering in Contemporary Women's Literature, Fiction, Poetry and Life Writing. Eds. Andrea O'Reilly and Elizabeth Podeneiks. West Waterloo, ON: Wilfred Laurier Press. Forthcoming.
• "'Look Ma, No Hands!': Voice-Recognition Software, Writing, and Ancient Rhetoric." Enculturation. Forthcoming.
• "Featured Classroom Activity: Draw a Fish." Instructor's Manual for Fieldworking: Reading and Writing Research. Boston: Bedford St. Martin's, 2007.

Current Research Interests: Rhetorics of childbirth (birth plans, birth narratives, and historical and medical childbirth rhetoric); intersections and responsibilities of writing instruction and ergonomics .