Programs and Areas

Katie is an Assistant Professor at OSU's Marion campus, where she teaches writing, film, digital media, and professional communication courses. Currently working on a book entitled Situating Digital Media Work in English Studies, she has published pieces in Computers and Composition Online and Kairos.

Professional Interests: Digital media, literacy, basic writing, professional writing, film.

Professor, English; Vice-Chair, Rhetoric Composition and Literacy (RCL) Programs. Associate Faculty: Women's Studies; Associate Faculty: Comparative Studies; Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Program in Disability Studies; Faculty Leader, American Sign Language Program (Ph.D., University of Louisville):English/Rhetoric/Composition. Author of Lend Me Your Ear: Rhetorical Constructions of Deafness (1999) and Deaf Subjects: Between Identities and Places (2008) and of personal essays and articles on pedagogy, qualitative research, literacy, rhetoric, deaf and disability studies. Co-editor and contributor Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities; Women and Deafness: Double Visions; Disability and/in Prose; Disability and the Teaching of Writing: A Critical Sourcebook. Editor and contributor Literacy and Deaf People: Cultural and Contextual Persepctives. Series editor for "Deaf Lives: Autobiography and Biography," Gallaudet University Press. Current co-editor, Disability Studies Quarterly. Recipient of OSU's Kathryn Schoen Award (2000) for Women in Academic Leadership and Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award (2001). Grants/fellowships received: DAAD (German Academic Exchange) 2004 Summer Institute, Einstein Forum, Univ. Postsdam (Germany) for "Disability Studies, the Nazi T-4 Program, and the Legacy of Eugenics"; Battelle Endowment for Technology and Human Affairs (BETHA) grant for the American Sign Language Literature Digital Media Project (2004-05); Ohio Humanities Council grant for "Enabling the Humanities: Disability Studies and Higher Education"; OSU Seed Grant; and Coca-Cola Foundation for Research on Women grant. Board of Trustees, Gallaudet University.

(Associate Professor) (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin): History of rhetoric, rhetorical theory, composition research, and writing evaluation. Co-author (with Kay Halasek) of A Brief Guide to Basic Writing, co-author of Assessing Writers' Knowledge and Processes of Composing, co-editor of A Rhetoric of Doing: Essays on Written Discourse in Honor of James L. Kinneavy. Former co-editor of Written Communication: A Quarterly Journal of Research, Theory, and Application.

Susan H. Delagrange is an Assistant Professor of English in the Rhetoric, Composition, & Literacy program on the OSU-Mansfield campus. Her research interests include Digital Media Studies, Visual and Feminist Rhetorics, Composition Studies, and Teaching with Technology. Susan has published articles on the rhetoric and design of digital media in the journal Kairos and is an associate editor of Rhetorical Visions (eds. Hesford and Brueggemann), a visual culture textbook (Prentice Hall, 2007).

(D.A., Illinois State University) Associate Professor; Director of First-Year Writing (2007-present); Director of the Digital Media Project (2002-09). Composition and Digital Media Studies. Author of articles on computer networking, hypertext, and digital media in composition studies. Received the 1993-94 Ameritech Fellowship of The Ohio State University. Also awarded the 1999 OSU Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching. Author of Writing Inventions: Identities, Pedagogies, Technologies (winner of the Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award) and co-editor of Contexts, Intertexts, and Hypertexts. Director of the BETHA Institute for Writing and Digital Media Studies. Co-director (with Cindy Selfe) of the Digital Media and Composition (DMAC) institute.

(Associate Professor) (Ph.D. The Ohio State University): History and Theory of Rhetoric, Classical Rhetoric. Author of Rhetorical Action in Ancient Athens: Persuasive Artistry from Solon to Demosthenes (Summer 2006)and articles and book reviews on classical rhetoric.

Harvey J. Graff is Ohio Eminent Scholar in Literacy Studies and Professor of English and History at The Ohio State University. (PhD.,University of Toronto.) He joined OSU in 2004, and is developing the Literacy Studies @ OSU initiative. Previously, he was Professor of History at the University of Texas at San Antonio. In 1999-2000, Graff served as President of the Social Science History Association. In 2001, the University of Linköping in Sweden awarded him the Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa for his contributions to scholarship.

A comparative social historian, Graff is noted internationally for his research and teaching on the history of literacy (The Literacy Myth: Literacy and Social Structure in the Nineteenth-Century City [1979; new ed., 1991]; The Legacies of Literacy: Continuities and Contradictions in Western Culture and Society [1987, Italian ed., 1989, Critics' Choice Award of the American Educational Studies Society]; The Labyrinths of Literacy: Reflections on Literacy Past and Present [1987; new ed., 1995, Portuguese and Spanish translations in progress]; National Literacy Campaigns in Historical and Comparative Perspective [co-editor, l987]); the history of children, adolescents, and youth (Children and Schools in Nineteenth-Century Canada [co-author, 1979, 1994, in English and French]; Growing Up in America: Historical Experiences [editor, 1987]; Conflicting Paths: Growing Up in America [1995]); and urban history and studies. He has also written on family history, criminality; social structure and population; education; and methodology and theory in history, social science, and humanities. Recent publications include the chapter on history for The Social Worlds of Higher Education: Handbook for Teaching in a New Century, a project of the American Sociological Association, entry on literacy in the Oxford Companion to United States History, Looking Backward and Looking Forward: Perspectives on Social Science History (coeditor), “Understanding Literacy in its Historical Contexts,” special issue, Interchange (co-editor). Nearing completion is City at the Crossroads: Dallas, the Book; work has begun on a social history of interdisciplinarity, and several edited volumes. A selection of his essays on literacy appears in the distinguished series “Il Sapere Del Libro” (including Roger Chartier, Robert Darnton, and Donald McKenzie) from Edizioni Sylvestre Bonnard in Italy.

Among a number of advising/consulting positions, Graff was also principal academic advisor for the Chicago Historical Society’s Teen Chicago project, a multi-year project on the history of teens, oral history, public programming, and transformation of the roles of young people in museums and historical societies.

(Associate Professor) (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin): Composition theory, history, and pedagogy, and rhetorical theory. Author of A Pedagogy of Possibility. Co-author (with Roger Cherry) of The Harper Collins Brief Guide to Basic Writing and author of articles on writing, rhetoric and communication.

(Associate Professor) Ph.D., New York University: Rhetorical theory; visual rhetoric; composition theory, human rights literature and film; critical pedagogy; autobiography criticism; transnational feminist studies. Author of Framing Identities: Autobiography and the Politics of Pedagogy (University of Minnesota Press, 1999) winner of the 1999 W. Ross Winterowd Book Award; co-editor with Wendy Kozol of two collections Haunting Violations: Feminist Criticism and the Crisis of the "Real" (University of Illinois Press, 2001) and Just Advocacy? Women's Human Rights, Transnational Feminisms, and The Politics of Representation, (Rutgers University Press, 2005); and Rhetorical Visions: Reading and Writing in a Visual Culture, a textbook co-authored with Brenda Brueggemann (Prentice Hall, 2007).

Hesford's second single-authored book, Spectacular Rhetorics: Human Rights, Feminisms, and the Transnational Imaginary is forthcoming from Duke University Press. Among her other current projects is a scholarly collection "Realistic Wrongs: Questions of Evidence in Human Rights Work" (edited with Andrew Herscher).

She is the recepient of numerous awards and grants, including a NEH Summer Seminar fellowship, 2007 Visiting Scholar at Columbia University's Center for the Study of Human Rights, OSU Seed Grant, OSU Research Enhancement Grant, FTAD Seed Grants, several Coca-Cola Critical Difference for Women Grants, and the Modern Language Association's Florence Howe essay award. She has published essays in various journals, including PMLA, Biography, College English, JAC, and TDR: Journal of Performance Studies, among others. She is the current president of the Women's Caucus of the Modern Language Association.

(Professor) (Ph.D., University of Southern California): History of rhetoric, theory of rhetoric, and composition theory. Author of Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric in North America(1991), Gender and Rhetorical Space in American Life: 1866-1910 (2002), several book chapters, and reviews and articles on the history and theory of rhetoric, composition theory, and the pedagogy of writing.

Dan is an Assistant Professor at OSU-Newark, where he teaches courses on literacy, rhetoric and composition, popular culture, and digital media. His research interests include composition theory, reading pedagogy, literacy, and digital media.

Ben McCorkle is an Assistant Professor of English in the Rhetoric, Composition, & Literacy program at the OSU-Marion campus. His areas of scholarly interest include rhetorical theory, digital media studies, and visual culture. Recently a staff member of the English Department's Digital Media Project, Ben also served as a Marion L. Brittain Teaching and Research Fellow at Georgia Tech's School of Literature, Communication, & Culture. In addition to writing articles and reviews pertaining to rhetoric and composition, he recently collaborated on a visual culture textbook entitled Rhetorical Visions (eds. Brueggemann and Hesford), which was published by Prentice Hall in Fall 2006.

(Associate Professor of English) Composition theory and criticism, literacy theories and practices, qualitative research methodologies, basic writing. Author of essays on composition, pedagogy, and the rhetoric of Black ministers. Editor of Literacy Across Communities; Co-editor of Writing Groups Inside and Outside the Classroom; author of A Community Text Arises.

Cassie is an Assistant Professor at OSU's Marion campus, where she teaches traditional and service-learning courses in literacy studies, rhetorical theory, writing, and research methods. Her research interests include composition theory and criticism, especially as they pertain to basic and non-native writers; literacy history, theory, and practices and the exploration of them through qualitative research methods; and the connections between academic and creative writing.

Jacqueline Jones Royster, Professor of English at The Ohio State University, has three complementary areas of interest in research: the rhetorical history of women of African descent, the development of literacy, and contexts and processes related to the teaching of writing. She has authored numerous articles and books that illustrate this confluence of concerns in both literacy studies and women's studies.

From 1983 through 1996, she was a member of the editorial collective of Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women, serving as senior associate editor. In addition to their semi-annual journal (which published its final issue in January 1996), the collective published an anthology, Double Stitch: Black Women Write About Mothers and Daughters (Beacon Press, 1991--hard cover; HarperCollins, 1993--softbound). Professor Royster’s other book publications included an edited volume Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells-Barnett (Bedford Books, 1997); Traces of a Stream: Literacy and Social Change among African American Women (University of Pittsburgh, 2000); Profiles of Ohio Women, 1803-2003 (Ohio University Press 2003), a volume published in support of the State of Ohio’s Bicentennial celebration; and a co-edited volume (with Ann Marie Simpkins, also at Ohio State), Calling Cards: Theory and Practice in Studies of Race, Gender, and Culture (SUNY, 2005).

Professor Royster’s publications also include textbooks. She served as consulting author for composition of Writer's Choice, 6-8 (Glencoe 1994--), a textbook series in language arts for middle school students. She served as program consultant for Glencoe Literature: Reader’s Choice (Glencoe 2000--), a literature series for high school courses (courses 1-5, American literature, British literature, and World literatures); and Critical Inquiries (Addison Wesley Longman 2003), a college level reader for first and second year composition courses. Currently, she is working with other colleagues in rhetoric and composition as a co-editor of the Norton Anthology of Rhetoric and Writing and on a co-authored volume, entitled Tectonic Shifts in Feminist Rhetorical Practices. In addition, she continues to work on a single-authored manuscript with the working title A Nation Within: Utopian Desire, Radical Action, and the Voices of African American Women.

In addition to her teaching, administrative, and scholarly activities, Professor Royster has also been very active in English professional organizations. She has filled a variety of roles on committees, task forces, and commissions, as highlighted by her service as: Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (1995), Chair of the Executive Committee of the Division on Teaching Writing of the Modern Language Association (1995), and member of the Writing Advisory Committee of the National Commission on Writing, established by the College Board (2002-2009). Such leadership roles are also evident in her service on advisory boards in the Columbus community as well, including: the Columbus Literacy Council, the Ohioana Library Association, and the Children’s Hunger Alliance.

Among the recent honors and awards that Professor Royster has received are: Ohio Pioneer in Education (for higher education) by the State of Ohio Department of Education (2000); Braddock Award (2000) from the Conference on College Composition and Communication’s for the best article in their journal, College Composition and Communication; Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize (2001) from the Modern Language Association’s in recognition of her book Traces of a Stream; University Distinguished Diversity Award (2002) from Ohio State; University Distinguished Lecturer (2003) from Ohio State; Exemplar Award (2004) from the Conference on College Composition and Communication; a YWCA Woman of Achievement Award (2004) from the city of Columbus; the Nancy Dasher Award (2006) from the College English Association of Ohio, in recognition of her co-edited collection Calling Cards; and the Frances Andrew March Award (2006) for distinguished service to the profession from the Association of Departments of English of the Modern Language Association.

(Humanities Distinguished Professor) Interests: how literacy values and practices in digital environments shape, and have been shaped by historic, economic, social, cultural, material, educational, and personal factors, computer uses in educational settings. Selfe is the first woman and the first English teacher ever to receive the EDUCOM Medal for innovative computer use in higher education. She has authored or edited a number of works on digital technology, both alone and in collaboration with colleagues. Along with Scott DeWitt, she is the Director of OSU's annual Digital Media and Composition (DMAC) summer institute. She also coordinates the English Department's program of Visiting Scholars in Digital Media and Composition. Selfe studies digital technologies to learn more about people.

Research interests include women's rhetoric, particularly nineteenth-century American women's scientific and professional rhetoric; composition studies; and writing center studies.

Professor Ulman teaches courses in digital media, literature and environment studies, and rhetorical theory, history and criticism. He has authored Things, Thoughts, Words, and Actions: The Problem of Language in Late Eighteenth-Century British Rhetoric (SIUP, 1994), edited The Minutes of the Aberdeen Philosophical Society, 1758-1773 (Aberdeen UP, 1990), and published articles on eighteenth-century British philosophy and rhetoric, American nature writing, and digital media. Over the past four years, he has collaborated with his students on three electronic textual editions of unpublished nineteenth-century American manuscripts.

Selected digital media projects:
The Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (DALN) (2008)
Samuel Sullivan Cox's 'Journal of a Tour to Europe,' 1851 (2007)
The Letters of William B. Anderson to Mary Louisa (Fischgens) Anderson, 1862–1864 (2006)
My Dear Elizabeth: Letters from Sophia Peabody Hawthorne to Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, ca. 1837-1868 (2004)
Editor, ASLE Online Bibliography (2001-Present)

Elizabeth Weiser, Associate Professor (PhD, English/Rhetoric & Composition, Texas Christian University; MFA, Creative Writing, Texas State University; MA, International Education, American University). Author of Burke, War, Words: Rhetoricizing Dramatism, University of South Carolina Press (2008); articles and chapters on identification in the Smithsonian museums, Burke’s response to war, Burke's dialectical stance, Burke and Rene Wellek and Allen Tate, the dialogic personal narrative, the history of style, and Dorothy Day's personalized narratives are published or in press. Co-editor and contributor to Engaging Audience: Writing in an Age of New Literacies, NCTE Press (2009) with Brian Fehler and Angela González; and Women and Rhetoric between the Wars, with Ann George and Janet Zepernick (under consideration). Happenings Editor for the KB Journal, president of the TCU Rhetoric/Composition Alumni Society, faculty advisor for Ohio State-Newark's Taproot. Recipient of the Kenneth Burke Society's Emerging Scholar Award (2008), Rhetoric Review's runner-up article of the year (2007), Ohio State-Newark’s Service Award (2005). Fulbright Fellowship to Ankara, Turkey (1999-2000); Texas Christian University Radford Fellowship (2001); Ohio State-Newark Research and Scholarly Activities Grants (2007, 2009). Current teaching includes courses in rhetorical theory, research methods, argument, textual analysis, publishing, and writing style. Current research looks at national identity formation/rhetorical identification in national and alternative museums around the world.