Publications
Books
Rhetoric at the Margins: Revising the History of Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1873-1947. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008.
Rev. in Composition Studies 36.2 (Fall 2008); Rhetoric Review 28.1 (2009).
Articles
"'Eve Did No Wrong': Making Modern Girls at a Public College for Women." College Composition and Communication. Forthcoming, 2009.
"Will the Circle Be Broken: The Rhetoric of Complaint against Student Writing." Profession 2008: 83-93.
"'But When Do You Teach Grammar?' Allaying Community Concerns about Pedagogy." English Journal 95.6 (July 2006): 42-47.
"'Where Brains Had a Chance': William Mayo and Rhetorical Instruction at East Texas Normal College." College English 67.3 (January 2005): 311-30.
"'Nothing Educates Us Like a Shock': The Integrated Rhetoric of Melvin Tolson." College Composition and Communication 55.2 (December 2003): 226-53.
Rpt. in Poetry Criticism. Vol. 88. Ed. Michelle Lee. Detroit: Gale, 2008. 354-67.
"Beyond the Classroom Walls: Student Writing at Texas Woman's University, 1901-1939." Rhetoric Review 22.3 (2003): 264-81.
"The Power of Ick; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Teaching English." The Writing Instructor (2001).
Chapters
"The Accidental Archivist: Embracing Chance and Confusion in Historical Scholarship." Beyond the Archives: Research as a Lived Process. Ed. Gesa Kirsch and Elizabeth Rohan. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008. 13-19.
Contributor to Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture. Ed. Carol Boyce Davies. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2008. Entries include "Melvin Beaunoris Tolson" (889-98), "Frederick Douglass" (397-98)."Southerners Anonymous." Crossroads: A Southern Culture Annual, 2006. Ed. Ted Olson. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2006. 3-10. (pdf)
Principal Contributor to Encyclopedia of African American Society. Ed. Gerald D Jaynes. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2005. Entries include "Activists" (10-13), "Be Bop" (96-98), "Frederick Douglass" (266-69), "Educational Attainment" (284-85), "Fine Arts" (331-33), "Black Media" (529-532), and "Non-Violent Protest" (665-67).
Reviews and editorials
"The Kids Are Alwrite." Phi Delta Kappan 86.10 (June 2005): 792-3.
Review of The Humblest May Stand Forth: Rhetoric, Empowerment, and Abolition by Jacqueline Bacon. Rhetoric Society Quarterly 32.4 (Fall 2002): 112-16.
Review of Writing in a Milieu of Utility: The Move to Technical Communication in American Engineering Programs, 1850-1950 by Teresa C. Kynell. Rhetoric Society Quarterly 31.4 (Fall 2001): 89-91.
"Ulysses: A Case Study in the Problems of Hypertextualization of Complex Documents" (A response to John Slatin's "La Zambinella Meets the Cyborg: Barthes, S/Z, and Print-Based Literary Studies"). Computers, Writing, Rhetoric and Literature 3 (1997).