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Writing & Rhetoric

Faculty in Writing & Rhetoric

Degrees: University of Arizona; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Teaching Interests:
Rhetorical and composition theory, ethnography, scientific and technical writing, writing for community service, rhetorics of reproduction, feminist theory, FYC

Courses Recently Taught: WRT 490, WRT 333, WRT 304, WRT 104

Recent and/or Forthcoming Publications:

• "Teaching 'the Six'--and Beyond." Pedagogy 10.2, forthcoming October 2009.
• "Thinking Vertically" (co-authored with Libby Miles, Michael Pennell, Jeremiah Dyehouse, Helen O'Grady, Nedra Reynolds, Robert Schwegler, and Linda Shamoon) College Composition and Communication 59.3 (2008): 503-511.
• "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 .

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