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 about 25 years.

Publications

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

What's Rhetoric?

In The Art of Rhetoric, Aristotle lays out the three main types of speeches: epideictic, judicial, and deliberative. The first occurs in public gatherings to venerate particular persons, the latter two occur within the courts and political arena. St. Augustine would add a fourth location to these three in the medieval period: the pulpit. By the 20th-century, however, viewing rhetoric as only occurring within certain types of speeches given in certain locations is expanded to understanding rhetoric as possibly occurring everywhere, in all situations, and in written texts as well as spoken.

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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

Christian Women and Feminism

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.

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Women's Education

Visual Rhetoric

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

Women's Education

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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