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 manuscript entitled Cultivating Professional Identities in the Age of Digital Media, she is the author of papers on technology-enhanced writing pedagogy, digital media in English studies, and film. Her most recently published work is "Remixing Basic Writing," an article in Computers and Composition Online co-authored with Ben McCorkle and Amie Wolf.

Professional Interests: Digital media, literacy, film, professional writing, disability studies.

Brenda Brueggemann (Associate Professor and Director of the First-Year Writing Program) (Ph.D., University of Louisville):English/Rhetoric/Composition. Author of Lend Me Your Ear: Rhetorical Constructions of Deafness 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. Editor and contributor Literacy and Deaf People: Cultural and Contextual Persepctives. Series editor for "Deaf Lives: Autobiography and Biography," Gallaudet University Press. 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.

Assistant Professor on the OSU Mansfield Campus

Interests: Digital Media and Visual Rhetoric, Writing Technologies, Feminist Rhetoric, Composition Studies, Teaching with Technology, and Business and Professional Communication.

(Associate Professor and Director of DMP) (D.A., Illinois State University): Composition and rhetoric. Author of articles on computer networking and hypertext 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 and co-editor of Contexts, Intertexts, and Hypertexts.

Marion Campus. Interests: Basic Writing, Computers and Composition, Digital Media, Distance Learning, Assessment. Author of It's Not Like That Here: Teaching Reading and Writing to Novice Writers and co-editor of Portfolios: Process and Product and Role Play: Distance Learning and the Teaching of English.

(Associate Professor) (Ph.D. The Ohio State University): History and Theory of Rhetoric, Classical Rhetoric, with interests in Rhetorics of Performance,Delivery and the Body, Space and the City, and Everyday Practice. 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 and Vice Chair, Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Studies) (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; human rights literature and film; critical pedagogy; autobiography theory and 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 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, Transnational Publics is forthcoming from Duke University Press.

She is the recepient of numerous awards and grants, including a NEH Summer Seminar fellowship at Columbia University, OSU Seed Grant, OSU Research Enhancement Grant, several FTAD Seed Grants, and most recently the MLA 2005 Florence Howe essay award. She has published essays in various journals, including PMLA, Biography, College English, and TDR: Journal of Performance Studies, among others. During Autumn 2007, she will be a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University's Center for the Study of Human Rights.

(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.

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.

(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.

(Professor) (Ph.D. in English from Purdue University.) Teaching responsibilities include the following: American Literature 1865-1914; Graduate Seminar in African American Literature; and African American Voices: American Aesthetics, Rhetorics, and Polemics. Author of "Rhetorical Tradition(s) and the Reform Writing of Mary Ann Shadd Cary" in _Calling Cards: Theory and Practice in the Study of Race, Gender, and Culture_ eds. Royster and Simpkins.

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:
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)
ASLE Online Bibliography

Elizabeth Weiser holds a PhD in Rhetoric and Composition (Texas Christian University, 2004) and an MFA in Creative Writing (Texas State University, 1999). She teaches courses in rhetorical theory, research methods, textual analysis, and writing style. She has taught writing at both TCU and Texas State, as well as at Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey, where she spent a year as a Fulbright Fellow. Dr. Weiser's historiographic research focuses on the intellectual and social conversations affecting the development of rhetorical theories. Her book BURKE, WORDS, WAR is due out from the University of South Carolina Press later in 2008. It considers the impact of contemporary theories of language and motivation (new criticism, general semantics, Marxism/Freudianism) on the development of Burke’s rhetorical theory and posits dramatism as a specific hortatory response to the fascism of the Second World War. Part of this work recently was named one of the top articles of 2007 in Rhetoric Review. Weiser has also published a chapter on the history of style in REFIGURING PROSE STYLE and her co-edited article (with a psychologist and creative writer) on a reexamination of the personal narrative will appear in JAC this spring. She is co-editing (with Brian Fehler and Angela Gonzalez) a collection on AUDIENCE: THEORY AND PRACTICE, which is under review at NCTE Press, and also (with Ann George and Janet Zepernick) a collection WOMEN RHETORS BETWEEN THE WARS. Her recent conference presentations have concerned the intersection of Burkean dialogism with narrative pedagogy and with structuralism, rhetorics of place, and dramatism as a response to war.