Education

PhD, English, Rhetoric, Composition and Literacy Studies, The Ohio State University
MA, English, Rhetoric and Composition concentration, University of Missouri–Kansas City
BA, English, British Literature concentration, Truman State University

Expertise/Research Interests

Rhetoric and Composition
Writing Across the Curriculum/Writing in the Disciplines
History of Rhetoric
Visual Rhetoric
Progressive Era Women’s Rhetorics

Classes Taught

English 105: First Year Writing Seminar I
English 106: First Year Writing Seminar II
English 231: Introduction to Language
English 304: Special topics - Visual Rhetoric
English 306A: Technical Writing
English 306B: Business and Professional Communication
English 306C: Advanced Expository and Research Writing
English 325: Modern Grammar
English 354: Non-Fiction Prose
English 370: History and Theory of Rhetoric
English 387: Theories of Teaching Writing
English 490: Capstone

Publications

As Author

“Making WAC Accessible: Reimagining the WAC Faculty Workshop as an Online Asynchronous Course.” (with Brandi Handley and Emily Sallee). Across The Disciplines, 18.3/4 (accepted, forthcoming).

“Globalizing the Prompt: Redesigning Writing Assignment Prompts for ESL Accessibility.” (with Zephra Weber). The Scholarly Teacher. 2019.

“‘Hear the Table Call of the South’: White Supremacist Rhetoric and the 1950 Charleston Receipts Junior League Cookbook.” Peitho, 20.2 (2018): 212–32.

Invited Review of Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance, by Ellen Gruber Garvey. Nineteenth-Century Literature, 69.1 (2014).

“Making Space for Writing: High School Girls’ Writing Clubs, Newspapers, and Literary Magazines, 1897–1930.” (with Lori Ostergaard and Henri Rix Woods). Feminist Challenges, Feminist Rhetorics: Locations, Scholarship, and Discourse. Ed. Kirsti Cole. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2014.

“Trifles, Abominations, and Literary Gossip: Gendered Rhetoric and Scrapbooks.” Genders, 55 (Spring 2012).

“Proofs and Persuasion: A Cross-Disciplinary Analysis of Math Students’ Writing.” (co-written with Patrick Bahls, Meg-Scott Copses, and Chris Warnick). Across the Disciplines, 8.1 (2011).

“Material Histories: The Scrapbooks of Progressive Era Women’s Organizations, 1875–1930.” Women and Material Culture: Gendered Material Practices. Eds. Maureen Daly Goggin and Beth Tobin. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009. 141–153.

“Meeting the Pedagogical Challenge of Familiar Images: Teaching Familial and National Gazes.” (co-written with Wendy E. Wolters). Instructor’s Manual for Rhetorical Visions: Writing and Reading in a Visual Culture. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2007.

As Editor

Editor of InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching. Vols. 14–17 (Fall 2018–2023).

Assistant Editor, Rhetorical Visions: Writing and Reading in a Visual Culture. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2007.

Professional Associations

Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric
National Council of Teachers of English
Council of Writing Program Administrators
Member of International Network of Writing Across the Curriculum Program

Stacey Kikendall | Amy Mecklenburg-Faenger
Joshua Mugg | Brandi Handley | Stephen David Grover