Faculty in Writing & Rhetoric

Dr. Nedra Reynolds

Roosevelt 322                     
(401) 874-4665
nedra@uri.edu

Professor

PhD: Miami University of Ohio

Teaching Interests:
Rhetorical and feminist theories; geography; composition pedagogy and cultural studies; portfolios.

Courses Recently Taught: WRT 201, WRT 435, WRT 647, WRT 999

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:
Chair of the PK-16 Advisory Committee on the Language Arts (State of Rhode Island Office of Higher Education and Department of Education); College Section Steering Committee, NCTE; editorial board member, College Composition and Communication; past member of the CCCC Executive Committee.
 
Current Research Interests:
Place-based theories of composing; portfolio assessment.