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  • Falcon Heritage Lecture

Women and Rhetoric: Persuasion, Preachers, and Possibilities

Women and Rhetoric: Persuasion, Preachers, and PossibilitiesWomen and Rhetoric: Persuasion, Preachers, and PossibilitiesWomen and Rhetoric: Persuasion, Preachers, and Possibilities

Explore the connections between women preachers, women's rights, and Pentecostalism in the U.S.

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Welcome!

Dr. Kristen D. Welch

As an Assistant Professor of English, I focus on topics such as Christian feminism, the role of women preachers, and women's rhetoric, while also serving as the Director of the Write Place at Spartanburg Methodist College and the Director of Archives and Research for the International Pentecostal Holiness Church. 

About me

Education

Ph.D. in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English, University of Arizona, 2007

Graduate Certificate in Archival Studies, Louisiana State University, May 2025

Publications

"This Present Darkness": Meet Me on the Battlefield, 2021, Wipf and Stock


The Role of Female Seminaries on the Road to Social Justice for Women, 2015, Wipf and Stock, co-authored with Dr. Abe Ruelas


Deep Roots: Defining the Sacred Through the Voices of Pentecostal Women Preachers, Republished in 2021


Women with the Good News: The Rhetorical Heritage of Pentecostal Holiness Women Preachers, 2010, Centre for Pentecostal Theology Press


What's Rhetoric?

  • It’s about creating an opportunity for persuasion within a given context. 
  • It’s about analyzing the means others use to persuade you, especially when it comes to the roles of women preachers. 
  • Check out this book, available online: Readings in the Rhetorical Tradition: Readings From Classical Times to the Present

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