Education

• Ph.D., The Ohio State University
• M.A., Old Dominion University
• B.A., Old Dominion University

Interests

• Rhetoric and Composition
• Black Feminist Essay Writing
• African American Women's Writing
• Business Writing

Selected Publications

"Becoming a Writerly Self: College Writers Engaging Black Feminist Essays." College Composition and Communication 51.4 (2000): 540-559.

"Beyond First-Year Composition: Not Your Grandmother's General Education Composition Program." Co-authored with Bill Lalicker, Karen Fitts, Chris Teutsch, and Victoria Tischio. WPA: Writing Program Administration 26.3 (2003): 67-86.

"The Essay Matters Because the Essayist Matters: Personal Disclosures and the Enactment of Ethos in Essays by Black Feminist Writers." In Professing Rhetoric: Selected Papers from the 2000 Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Eds. Frederick Antczak, Cinda Coggins, and Geoffrey Klinger. Mahwah: NJ: Erlbaum Associates, 2002: 130-137.

"Surviving Intact: African American Women Negotiating Scholarly Identities through Graduate School Writing." In The Relevance of English: Teaching That Matters in Students' Lives. Eds. Robert Yagelski and Scott Leonard. National Council of Teachers, 2002.

Review of Traces of a Stream: Literacy and Social Change Among African American Women, by Jacqueline Jones Royster. JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 21.1 (Winter 2001): 207-211.

"African American Women's Rhetorics and the Culture of Eurocentric Scholarly Discourse." In Contrastive Rhetoric Revisited and Redefined. Ed. Clayann Gilliam Panetta. New York: Routledge, 2000: 83-94.