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Writing & Rhetoric

Faculty in Writing & Rhetoric

Nedra Renolds

Nedra Reynolds, PhD

Professor

Office: Roosevelt 322
Office Hours: T 11-12:15 and W 2:00-4:00
Phone: (401) 874-4665
E-mail: nedra@uri.edu
Degrees: Emporia State University; Miami University of Ohio

Teaching Interests:
Geographies of writing; composition pedagogy and cultural studies; portfolios.

Courses Recently Taught: WRT 201, WRT 270, WRT 435, WRT 490

Recent and/or Forthcoming Publications:
  • Geographies of Writing: Inhabiting Places and Encountering Difference, Southern Illinois University Press, 2004.
  • The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing, 6th edition 2004. With Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg.
  • Portfolio Keeping: A Guide for Students and Portfolio Teaching: A Guide for Teachers. Bedford Books, 2000.
  • "Activism and Service Learning." with Donna M. Bickford. Pedagogy 2(2002): 229-52.
  • "Who's Going to Cross This Border? Travel Metaphors, Material Conditions, and Contested Places." jac 20(2000): 541-64.
  • "Composition's Imagined Geographies: The Politics of Space in the Frontier, City, and Cyberspace" College Composition and Communication, Vol. 50, September 1998.
  • "Interrupting Our Way to Agency: Feminist Cultural Studies and Composition" in Feminism and Composition Studies: In Other Words (MLA).
Professional Activities:Visiting Scholar or Invited Speaker at Virginia Tech University (April 2010); University of Connecticut--Greater Hartford (April 2010); DePaul University (December 2009); University of Montana (August 2009); University of Michigan at Dearborn (April 2009); University of Hawai`i at M?noa (October 2008); Emerson College (September 2007); University of Tampa (February 2007); former chair of the PK-16 Advisory Committee on the Language Arts (State of Rhode Island Office of Higher Education and Department of Education); past member of the CCCC Executive Committee.

Current Research Interests: Place-based theories of composing; portfolio assessment.

Announcements


Professor Nedra Reynolds Honored for Inclusion in The Norton Book of Composition Studies

Susan Miller, editor of the The Norton Book of Composition Studies, selected Professor Nedra Reynolds's 1998 article, “Interrupting Our Way to Agency: Feminist Cultural Studies and Composition,” for inclusion in the acclaimed anthology of Composition and Rhetoric scholarship. The collection boasts 101 of our discipline's most important and influential articles throughout the past 50 years. Professor Reynolds was honored at a luncheon sponsored by W.W. Norton and Company, where she was surrounded by proud colleagues, students, and peers. Please visit the university's announcement here.

The Harrington School of Communication and Media

URI alum, Richard J. Harrington, pledged a five million dollar gift to be put towards the creation of The Harrington School of Communication and Media. The school will unite five units within the College of Arts and Sciences, including Writing and Rhetoric. Please visit the university's announcement here.



Spotlight

WRT 647 Research Proposal Poster Presentations

Every other spring, URI community members gather in the Writing Center, 4th floor Roosevelt Hall, to look at and listen to the research proposals of graduate students in WRT 647, Seminar in Research Methods. The class, led by Prof. Mike Pennell of Writing and Rhetoric, spends the semester designing original research projects using a variety of methods, as well as learning the value of mixed methods research and critical methodologies for the study of all types of writing. The poster presentation event began in 1999 under the instruction of Prof. Libby Miles, now chair of Writing and Rhetoric. “A great research design makes sense to different audiences and addresses questions worth answering,” said Prof. Miles, who attended the most recent session. “Each year we do this, the work gets better and better.”


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