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\"\"<\/a>I’m a Professor of English<\/a>, Education<\/a>,\u00a0 and Women’s and Gender Studies<\/a> at the University of Michigan, specializing in rhetoric and writing. I also serve as a program affiliate to the Joint PhD Program in English and Education.<\/a><\/p>\n

I love teaching<\/b>. I offer a variety of courses in rhetoric, writing, and literacy studies, and I enjoy working with students at all levels, from first-year students writing their first college essays to PhD candidates writing their dissertations. Recent undergrad offerings<\/strong> include Literacy in a Digital Age<\/em>, Writing for the Real World<\/em>, Dangerous Women: Activism in the Progressive Era<\/em>, and Feminist Activism since the Sixties; <\/em>grad offerings<\/strong> include What Is Writing For<\/em>, Researching and Teaching Digital Literacies<\/em>, and Writing to Save the World<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I try to make my courses hands-on through student-led discussions and in-class workshops. I also try to help students produce writing they would be proud sharing with an audience outside of class. In Magazine Writing<\/em>, students publish an online magazine, The Mich<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, and in my women’s rhetoric courses, students have applied feminist principles to editing Wikipedia, a powerful yet gendered knowledge-making space.<\/p>\n

My scholarly interests<\/strong> include the history of rhetoric, feminist rhetorics, writing pedagogy, and digital rhetorics, and I am particularly interested in the experiences of non-elite populations of students, the voices of marginalized rhetors, and the means by which ordinary citizens use language to effect change. My work has appeared in College Composition and Communication<\/em>, College English<\/em>, Peitho<\/em>, Rhetoric Review<\/em>, Rhetoric Society Quarterly<\/em>, and elsewhere, and I have written, coauthored, or coedited four volumes: Rhetoric at the Margins: Revising the History of Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1873-1947<\/a> <\/em>(2008) recipient of the CCCC Outstanding Book Award; the collection Rhetoric, History, and Women\u2019s Oratorical Education: American Women Learn to Speak<\/a> <\/em>(2013, with Catherine Hobbs); Educating the New Southern Woman: Speech, Writing, and Race at the Public Women\u2019s Colleges, 1884-1945<\/a><\/em> (2014, with Catherine Hobbs); and the collection Women at Work: Rhetorics of Gender and Labor<\/a><\/em> (2019, with Jessica Enoch).<\/p>\n

I am currently studying Black women’s rhetorical activism in the age of Jim Crow, with recent work in on African American suffrage rhetorics in the Crisis (RSQ<\/a>) <\/em>and Addie Hunton and Kathryn Johnson’s WWI-era civic pedagogy (Rhetoric Review<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n

I am also interested in how technologies of literacy<\/strong> affect research and writing practices: this work includes a coedited a special issue of <\/span>College English<\/i> on integrating\u00a0<\/span>digital humanities and historiography<\/a> and two essays coauthored with UM PhD students: “Going Public in an Age of Digital Digital Anxiety”<\/a> in<\/span>\u00a0Composition Forum<\/em> examines the rhetorical challenges students experience in online writing, and “Who’s Afraid of Facebook?”<\/a> in College Composition and Communication<\/em> is a large-scale survey of students’ <\/span>online writing practices (see an op\/ed preview here<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n

Outside of academia<\/strong>, my interests include food, music, and the outdoors, and I enjoy exploring all of these in Ann Arbor and around Michigan with family and friends. See some of my Michigan Faves here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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