Women and Rhetoric

About me

Ph.D. in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English

I earned my doctorate at the University of Arizona in 2007, and I've been teaching in the college classroom for over 26 years. I am currently serving as the Write Place Director, and our center recently won CARES certification. I began as a part-time, remote Director of Archives and Research in 2023, and I go to OKC in the summers to work in the vaults. We are working hard to digitize our materials. Visit our database to hear sermons, watch videos, sort through books and photos, and to see some of our catalog. If you would like to contact me, email me: kristen.d.welch@gmail.com.

Publications

My newest book, This Present Darkness:, Meet Me on the Battlefield, came out in 2021.

It was reviewed in Pneuma in 2023.

What's Rhetoric?

It’s about creating an opportunity for persuasion.

It’s about dismantling the means others use to persuade you.

It’s about capitalizing on symbolic power (status, for example) to obtain a goal.

It’s body language and clothing and style. It is the way a room is decorated, a building is designed, a garden is laid out, a story is told. Visual, audial, textual, oral—rhetoric permeates communication.

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Women's Rhetoric

Christian Women and Feminism

Women's Rhetoric

I recently designed a course in Women's Rhetorics. Want to see what we will be learning?

Women Preachers

Christian Women and Feminism

Women's Rhetoric

How do we justify women as preachers within Pentecostalism? Join me here for copies of interviews with women preachers and an ever growing list of resources.

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Christian Women and Feminism

Can you be a Christian and a feminist? If you are curious about how the history of feminism and Christianity intertwine, join me here.

Women's Education

How did women win the right to achieve an equal education? What are female seminaries and academies? Let me point you in the right direction.

Take My Course

Based on my most recent book, I guide college students and others through an overview of feminism. If you have ever felt pushed, intimidated, unsure, or just plain irritated by feminists, join me here and take back some power.

Visual Rhetoric

What is it? What does it have to do with you? Join me here to learn how to analyze an image for its persuasive message. Since we are immersed in a world of the visual, it is more important than ever than to be able to resist messages we do not with to accept or to at least recognize visual images as tools of persuasion.

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