Curriculum Vitae, July 2011

SUSAN ZAESKE
College of Letters & Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison
301 South Hall
1055 Bascom Mall
Madison, WI 53706
szaeske@ls.wisc.edu
608-263-7221

Degrees Held                                                                                                                                                          

Ph.D., 1997, University of Wisconsin				

M.A., 1992, University of Wisconsin		

B.A., 1989, University of Wisconsin

Positions Held                                                                                                                                                        
	
2011 -		Associate Dean for Advancement, Arts and Humanities, College of Letters & Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison

2008-2011	Chair, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison

2007 -		Professor, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison

2006-2008	Associate Chair, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison
						
2004-2005	Visiting Professor and Research Fellow, Women’s Studies in Religion Program, Harvard University

2003-2004	Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-
2005-		Madison

2002-2007	Associate Professor, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison 

1996-2002	Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Affiliations
                                                                                                                                                             
Religious Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison
LGBTQ Studies Program
Awards                                                                                                                                                              

Honored Instructor Award, University Housing, December 2008

Hamel Family Faculty Research Fellowship, College of Letters & Science, University of Wisconsin-
	Madison, 2008-2013

National Communication Association 2004 James A. Winans-Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for
 Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address for Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women’s Political Identity (University of North Carolina Press, 2003).

National Communication Association Public Address Division 2004 Marie Hochmuth Nichols Award for Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women’s Political Identity (University of North Carolina Press, 2003).

National Communication Association 2003 Golden Anniversary Monograph Award for “Signatures of 
Citizenship: The Rhetoric of Women’s Antislavery Petitions”

Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award, 2003

Vilas Research Associate, University of Wisconsin Graduate School, 2003-2005

Mark H. Ingraham Distinguished Faculty Award, College of Letters and Science, University of Wisconsin-
Madison, October 2002

National Communication Association 2001 Golden Anniversary Monograph Award for “Unveiling Esther as
a Pragmatic Radical Rhetoric.”

National Communication Association 2001 Karl Wallace Memorial Award for outstanding young scholar in rhetorical studies

Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Faculty Development Grant, University of Wisconsin-	
Madison Graduate School, summer 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001

Lilly Teaching Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999-2000

Cheris Kramarae Dissertation Award, Organization for the Study of Language, Communication and Gender, 
1998

American Association of University Women American Fellowship for Dissertation Completion, 1995-1996

Phi Beta Kappa, 1989

Books                                                                                                                                                                

Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery, and Women’s Political Identity. Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press, 2003.

Articles, book chapters, reference work entries                                                       

“‘A Nest of Rattlesnakes Let Loose among Them’: Congressional Debates over Women’s Antislavery 
	Petitions, 1835-1845,” forthcoming in U.S. Capitol Historical Society volume on debates over 
	slavery in the U.S. Congress.

“Angelina Grimké’s Appeal to the Christian Women of the South: Characterizing the Female Citizen in
Jacksonian America.” Forthcoming in Constructing the Citizen in Jacksonian America, vol. 3 of A Rhetorical History of the United States (Michigan State University Press).

“Hearing the Silences in Lincoln’s “Temperance Address”: Whig Masculinity as an Ethic of
Rhetorical Civility,” Rhetoric and Public Affairs 13:3 (Fall 2010): 389-419. 

“From Recovering Women’s Words to Documenting Gender Constructs: Archival Research in the Twenty-First Century,” with Sarah Jedd, in The Handbook of Rhetoric and Public Address, ed. Shawn Parry-Giles and J. Michael Hogan (Blackwell Publishing, 2010), 184-202.

“‘The South Arose as One Man’: Gender and Sectionalism in Congressional Debates over Slavery, 1835-
	1845,” Rhetoric and Public Affairs 12:3 (Fall 2009): 341-368. 

“Little Magic: Martin Van Buren and the Politics of Gender,” in Before the Rhetorical Presidency, ed. Martin Medhurst (College Station: Texas A & M Press, 2008), 44-62.

“The Gag Rule and the Great Petition Campaign.” Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties, Paul 
	Finkelman, ed. (Routledge, 2006).

With Amy Slagell, “Turn a Corner, Meet Your Fate: The Rhetoric of Edith Wilson.” In Inventing a Voice: 
The Rhetoric of American First Ladies of the Twentieth Century (Penn State University Press, 2004).

“Signatures of Citizenship: The Rhetoric of Women’s Antislavery Petitions,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 8:2 (May 2002): 147-168.

With Stephen E. Lucas, “Oratory and Orators,” Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century.  New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2001, 451-453.

“Unveiling Esther as a Pragmatic Radical Rhetoric,” Philosophy and Rhetoric 33:3 (2000): 193-220.

“Increasing the Profitability of ‘Racial Exchange’: Response to Freedman,” American Literary History 12:3
(Fall 2000): 600-604.

“The ‘Promiscuous Audience’ Controversy and the Emergence of the Early Woman’s Rights
Movement,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 81:2 (May 1995): 191-207. Reprinted in Readings in Rhetorical Criticism, 2nd ed., ed. Carl Burgchardt (Strata Publishing Co., 2000).

With Stephen E. Lucas, “George Washington,” in U.S. Presidents as Orators: A Biocritical Sourcebook, ed. 
	Halford Ryan (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995), 3-17.

Reprints

Excerpts of Signatures of Citizenship: Petitioning, Antislavery and Women’s Political Identity in Linda K. 
Kerber and Sharon De Hart, eds., Women’s America, 7th ed. (Oxford University Press, 2010).

Susan Zaeske, “The ‘Promiscuous Audience’ Controversy and the Emergence of the Early 
Woman’s Rights Movement,” in Linda Buchanan and Kathleen Ryan, eds. Walking and Talking Feminist Rhetorics: Landmark Essays and Controversies. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2010. 

Susan Zaeske, “Signatures of Citizenship: The Rhetoric of Women’s Antislavery Petitions,” in
	Readings in Rhetorical Criticism, ed. Carl Burgchardt, 4th ed. Strata Publishing, 2010.

“The ‘Promiscuous Audience’ Controversy and the Emergence of the Early Woman’s Rights
Movement,” reprinted in Readings in Rhetorical Criticism, 2nd ed., ed. Carl Burgchardt (Strata Publishing Co., 2000).

Review Essays and Book Reviews 

“History, Theory, and Method in Feminist Criticism of Early American Discourse.” (Review Essay).
Rhetoric & Public Affairs 6:3 (Fall 2003): 567-605.

Angelina Grimké: Rhetoric, Identity, and the Radical Imagination. In Rhetoric & Public Affairs 4:2 (Summer 2001): 337-339.

Golden Cables of Sympathy: The Transatlantic Sources of Nineteenth-Century Feminism. In Rhetoric & Public Affairs 3:1 (Spring 2000): 89-91.

Video review, “Stories of Suffrage,” (review of seven documentary videos) in Feminist Collections (Winter 2000), 1-4.

Dramatizing Writing: Reincorporating Delivery in the Classroom. In Communication Education, 48:3 (July 
1999): 260-262.

“The Transfiguring Sword”: The Just War of the Women’s Social and Political Union, in Quarterly Journal 
of Speech (May 1998): 254-255.

Work in Progress                                                                                                                                              

Appropriating Esther, book manuscript in preparation.

“From Ashes to Agency: Trading Places in Rose Schneiderman’s ‘Triangle Fire Speech’”

Scholarly Papers and Invited Lectures Presented                                                                                            

“Armed and Dangerous: Media Representations of Black Female Political Elites,” keynote 
address response, Rhetoric, Politics, and the Obama Phenomenon Conference, Texas A&M University, March 2010.

“From Recovering Women’s Words to Documenting Gender Constructs: Archival Research in the
Twenty-First Century,” National Communication Association Meeting, Chicago, November 2009.

“‘The Sorrow Quenching Draughts of Perfect Liberty’: Temperate Bodies/Political Bodies in the Rhetorics of 
	Abraham Lincoln and Frances E.W. Harper,” University of Illinois Lincoln Bicentennial Lecture 
Series, April 2009.
	
“From Ashes to Agency: Trading Places in Rose Schneiderman’s ‘Triangle Fire Speech,’” University of 
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, February 2009.
			
“Signatures of Citizenship: Critical Choices,” Northwestern University, January 2007.

“Critical Concepts Useful in the Teaching of Gender and Public Address,” National Communication 
Association meeting, San Antonio, Texas, November, 2006.

“Poetry and the Performance of Citizenship in the Reconstruction South: Frances Ellen Watkin’s 
Harper’s ‘Vashti,’” National Communication Association meeting, San Antonio, Texas, November, 2006.

“Victory from Tragedy: The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and Workers’ Use of Epideictic Blaming,” 
keynote response delivered at the 10th Biennial Public Address Conference, Vanderbilt University, Memphis, October 2006.

“The Book of Esther as Rhetorical Invention and Intervention,” Rhetoric and Composition Colloquium, 
Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 2006.
“‘A Nest of Rattlesnakes Let Loose Among Them’:  Congressional Debates over Women’s Antislavery 
	Petitions, 1835-1845,” U.S. Capitol Historical Society, Washington, D.C., April 2006. Broadcast on C-Span.

“Imagining Citizenship: Angelina Grimké, Frances E.W. Harper and the Book of Esther,” University of 
Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, February 2006. 

“Imagining Citizenship: Angelina Grimké, Frances E.W. Harper and the Book of Esther,” University of 
Washington, Seattle, Washington, February 2006. 

“Queen Esther in South Africa,” Women’s Studies in Religion Program, Harvard University, November 
	2005. 

“Esther through the Ages: Imagination and Identity,” Harvard Women’s Studies in Religion Program 
	Steering Committee, Denver, October 2005.

“Appropriating Esther: The Complex Negotiation of Corporeality and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century 
	America,” Hebrew University, Israel, June 2005.

“Doing GLBT History.” Seminar (co-facilitated with Professor Mary Louise Roberts, UW-History) for 
graduate students and faculty in the History Department of Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, June 2005.

“Appropriating Esther in Nineteenth-Century America,” Harvard University, May 2005.

“Reform Women, Rhetoric, and the Election of 1840.” Meeting of the Organization of American Historians,
	San Jose, California, April 2005.

“Metanoia and Rhetorical Action,” Harvard Divinity School, November 2004.
		
“Liberation Theology and Rhetorical Practice: Black South African Appropriations of Esther.” Rhetoric
and Democracy: About an African Athens, Cape Town, South Africa, June 2004. 

“Signatures of Citizenship: The Rhetoric of Women’s Antislavery Petitions,” Carnegie Mellon University, 
Department of English, February 2004.

“Elizabeth Dole’s Prayer Breakfast Speech and the Story of Esther,” National Communication Association 
	Convention, Miami, 2003.

“The Performance of Gendered Sectionalism in Debates Over the Right of Petition,” University of Georgia,
February 2003.

“Orating Honor: Gender and Performance in Congressional Debates over Women’s Antislavery Petitions, 
	1835-1840,” Northwestern University, February 2003.

“Defining Public Address Scholarship,” National Communication Association Convention, New Orleans,
November 2002.

“Performed Masculinity and the Rhetoric of Racial Violence,” Public Address Conference, Athens, Georgia,
October 2002.

“Rhetorical Literacy and Civic Engagement: Female Antislavery Petitioners,” Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 2002.

“Petitioning, Antislavery and U.S. Women’s Citizenship,” University of Wisconsin-Madison Women’s 
Studies Research Center Colloquium, April 2002.

“New War, Same War Story: President George W. Bush’s Sept. 20 Address to the Nation,” Central States 
Communication Association, Milwaukee, April 2002.

“Little Magic: Martin Van Buren and the Politics of Gender,” Conference on “Before the Rhetorical Presidency,” George Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University, February 2002.

“Petitioning as a Route to U.S. Women’s Citizenship,” National Communication Association, Atlanta, November 2001.

“Encountering Esther: Rhetorical Appropriations of the Jewish Queen,” Religious Studies Colloquium, University of Wisconsin, October 2001.

“Style and Gender in Nineteenth-Century American Discourse,” Eastern Communication Association, Portland, Maine, April 2001.

“Feminism, Community, and the Rhetorical Construction/Deconstruction of Sisterhood,” Central
States Communication Association Convention, Cincinnati, April 2001.

“Webster and the Women: Defining Political Identity in Antebellum America,” National Communication 
Association, Seattle, November 2000.

“Widening Our Scope: Seeing Gender and Beyond in Feminist Rhetorical Criticism,” National
Communication Association, Seattle, November 2000.

“‘We Have Done What We Could’: The Rhetoric of Women’s Antislavery Petitions,” Public
Address Conference, Penn State University, October 2000.

“‘The Irresistible Torrent of Rectified Public Opinion’: Angelina Grimké Answers the Proslavery Bible
Argument,” Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Washington, D.C., May 2000.

“The Esther Image in the Rhetoric of Women Abolitionists: Feminizing the Prophetic Tradition,” National
Communication Association, Chicago, November 1999.

“Increasing the Profitability of Racial Exchange,” History in the Making: The Future of American Literary
Studies, Madison, Wisconsin, March 1999.

“The Imprudence of President John Adams,” Presidential Rhetoric Conference. Texas A&M University,
 	College Station, Texas, March 1999.

“Angelina Grimké’s Appeal to the Christian Women of the South: Characterizing the Female Citizen in 
Jacksonian America,” Rhetoric and Composition Colloquium, Department of English, University of Wisconsin, February 1999.

“Elizabeth Margaret Chandler, ‘A Lady of Great Celebrity,’ and the Debate of 1826,” National
Communication Association Convention, New York City, November 1998.

“‘Pious Old Maids’ and ‘Imbecile, Timid Men’: Gender and Sectional Identity in Congressional Debates
Over Antislavery Petitions, 1835-1844,” National Communication Association Convention, Chicago, November 1997.
					
“The Rhetoric of Women’s Antislavery Petitions,” National Communication Association Convention,
Chicago, November 1997.

“The Book of Esther as Feminist Rhetorical Theory,” From Boundaries to Borderlands: Intersections of
Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Oregon State University, Corvalis, Oregon, August 1997.

“The Rhetorical Function of the Epistolary Form in Angelina Grimké’s ‘Appeal to the Christian Women of
the South,” Speech Communication Association Convention, San Antonio Texas, November 1995.

“Teaching Strategies to Address Lasting Historical Admonitions Against Women Speaking,” Speech 
Communication Association Convention, San Antonio Texas, November 1995.

“Innovations in Public Speaking: Teaching Composition in the Speech Curriculum,” Speech 
Communication Association Convention, San Antonio Texas, November 1995.

“‘With the Faith of an Esther’: The Prayerful Petitioning of Women Abolitionists,” Studies in the History	 of
the Early American Republic Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, July 1995.

Workshops                                                                                        

“Dynamic Group Dynamics,” UW-Madison Symposium on Women and Leadership, 2011

Workshop Co-Leader, Rhetoric/Communication Science Graduate Student Winter Workshop, Northwestern University, January 2010.

Workshop Co-Leader, Rhetoric Society of America Summer Workshop, “Rhetoric of Religion,” Penn State University, June 26-28, 2009

Public Lectures, Media Appearances, and Outreach                                                                                       

“Hop on the Bus, Gus! The LGBTQ History Trip,” UW Foundation/WAA alumni event, Chicago, June 2009

“In the Age of the Internet, Why Listen to Speeches?” Ideas Network of Wisconsin Public Radio and online 	at wpr.org, December 21, 2008.

“Encountering Esther,” November 2008, UW Foundation gathering in Los Angeles. 

“In the Age of the Internet, Why Listen to Speeches?”  November 2008, UW Foundation events in San 
	Francisco and Los Angeles.

“Humanities Now” panel entitled “Election 2008: Reflections on Media, Voters & Candidates New and 
Old,” sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, Madison Public Library, Central Branch, October 2008 .

“Encountering Esther: Religion, Imagination and Women’s Political Identity,” Knapp House, 
Madison, Wisconsin, September 2006.

“Searching for Social Justice: An Academic and Service Learning Experience Connecting Selma, Alabama, 
	and Madison, Wisconsin.”  Teaching and Learning Symposium, UW-Madison, May 2006.
“What is Women’s History and Why is it Important?” Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, June 2005.

“‘The Bully Pulpit:’ U.S. Presidential Rhetoric during Wartime,” Attic Angel Association Continuing Education Program, Madison, Wisconsin, April 2002.

“Hearing Women’s Voices,” on the “The Jean Feraca Show,” Wisconsin Public Radio, March 
2002. 

“Signatures of Citizenship: The Rhetoric of Women’s Antislavery Petitions,” University of Maryland, Department of Communication Colloquium, March 2002.

“Word Wars: The Rhetoric of World Crisis,” “The Jean Feraca Show,” Wisconsin Public Radio, January 2002. 

“Word Wars: The Rhetoric of World Crisis,” University of Wisconsin Center for the Humanities Forum: 
	“The Constitution Now,” Middleton Public Library, January 2002. 

“Word Wars: The Rhetoric of U.S. Foreign Crises,” on “University of the Air,” Wisconsin Public Radio, December 2001.

“Great Speakers and Speeches,” on “The Larry Meiller Show,” Wisconsin Public Radio, December 2001.

“‘With the Faith of an Esther’: American Women’s Antislavery Petitioning,” American Association of
University Women, Fort Atkinson Branch, April 1997.

“From the Parlor to the Platform: American Women’s Struggle to Speak in Public, 1825-1840,” Knapp
 	Dissertator Fellows Colloquium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 1997.		

Service to the Profession                                                                                                                                   

External Reviewer for Departments: UCLA Communication Studies, 2009; University of Nebraska, 2011

Tenure and promotion reviewer: Lake Forest College, 2008; Wake Forest College, 2008; University of Texas-Austin, 2009; Penn State University, 2010, 2011; University of Illinois, 2011

Rhetoric Society of America, Publications and Research Advisory Board, 2009-

Rhetoric Society of America conference proposal reviewer, 2005, 2006

Co-covenor for GLBT Symposium at international rhetoric conference Rhetoric and Democracy: About an African Athens, Cape Town, South Africa, June 7-11, 2004.  

Nominating Committee Chair, Rhetoric and Communication Theory Division, National Communication
 	Association, 2002-2003

Co-Planner for Pre-Convention Seminar, “Looking Out, Looking In: Public Address in a New Century,” 
	National Communication Association Convention, Miami, 2003.

National Communication Association Gerald R. Miller Outstanding Dissertation Award Committee, 2003-2005

Kohrs-Campbell Book Award Selection Committee, 2002-

National Communication Association Liaison to the Alliance of Rhetorical Scholars, 2002-2005

Board of Directors, Rhetoric Society of America, 2001-2002

Editorial board of Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 2007-

Editorial board of Rhetoric and Public Affairs, 2002-2008

Editorial board of Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2000-

Editorial board of Women’s Studies in Communication, 1998-2008

Association of Rhetorical Scholars (ARS), planning committee, 2000-2002, representative to National Communication Association, 2003-present

Nominating Committee, National Communication Association, 1999-2001

Legislative Council, National Communication Association, 1999-2001

Chair, Public Address Division, National Communication Association, 1999-2000
Vice-Chair (convention planner), Public Address Division, National Communication Association,
1998-1999				

Nominating Committee Chair, Public Address Division, National Communication Association,
1997-1998
Nominating Committee Member, Public Address Division, National Communication Association,
1996-1997

Ad hoc reviewer for: Critical Studies in Media Communication; Communication Studies; Rhetoric Society
Quarterly

Book mss. reviewer for: Yale University Press; University of Illinois Press; University of Massachusetts -
Amherst Press; University of Alabama Press; University of South Carolina Press; University of Wisconsin Press; Addison Wesley Longman; Strata Publishing

University Service                                                                                                                                                

SOAR (Summer Orientation and Registration) welcome speaker, summer 2009, 2010

Vice Provost’s Tenure Conversation Group, 2008-2010

Ad Hoc Committee to Study the Research Enterprise, appointed by the University Committee, 
	September 2009-February 2010 

Committee on Faculty Rights and Responsibilities, 2008-2009

Co-Chair, Arts and Humanities Strategic Planning Assembly, 2008-

Co-Chair, Arts and Humanities Strategic Planning Subcommittee, 2008

Letters & Science Student Academic Affairs Faculty Advisory Board, 2008- 

Honors Program Steering Committee, 2008-
Comm A Committee, 2008-2009. Entailed separate meetings with First-Year Experience Program and 
	Common Book Project

College of Letters & Science co-chair of Partners in Giving Campaign, 2008- 

Department of Communication Arts co-chair of Partners in Giving Campaign, 2008-

Religious Studies Program Steering Committee, 2006-2008

Honorary Degree Committee, 2006-2010

Editorial Board of On Wisconsin, 2005 -

Arts and Humanities Divisional Committee, 2005-2008

Fulbright Selection Committee, Harvard Divinity School, 2004

UW Archives Committee, Chair, 2003-2004

Phi Beta Kappa, University of Wisconsin-Madison Chapter, vice-president, 2004-2005; president, 2006-2007 

UW Phi Beta Kappa Selection Committee, 2002-

UW Women’s Faculty Mentoring Program Steering Committee, 2003-2005

Review committee for UW Women’s Studies Program, Spring 2003

College of Letters & Science search committee for Chadbourne Residential College Assistant Dean, chair, 2002-2003; spring 2006

Disability Studies Cluster Hire Committee, 2002-2003

UW Faculty Compensation and Economic Benefits Commission, 2001-2004; co-chair 2002-2004

UW Faculty Senator, 1997-2000

Ways of Knowing Faculty Mentor, 2001

Writing Fellows Program Faculty Member, 1999-2004				

Chadbourne Residential College Faculty Fellow, 1999-2002

Interview coach for Rhodes, Marshall, and Truman fellowship candidates, 1996-2001

Service to the Department                                                                                                                                   

Director of CA 100, Introduction to Speech Composition, 2008-2009 

Co-planner of Public Address Conference, Fluno Center, 2008

Rhetoric Colloquium Coordinator, 2008, 2009, 2011

Department of Communication Arts Awards Committee, 2003-2004; chair, 2005-present

Department of Communication Arts Graduate Committee, 2000-2004; Director of Graduate Studies, Fall 
	2003- Spring 2004, Fall 2005-Spring 2006

Department of Communication Arts Honors Advisor, 1996-2000

Department of Communication Arts Undergraduate Committee, 1996-2000

Department of Communication Arts Newsletter Committee, 2002-2004

Department of Communication Arts Lecture Committee, 1996-2001

Department of Communication Arts Webpage Committee, 1996-2000

Director of Communication Arts 262, Theory & Practice of Argumentation and Debate, 1997-2000

Rhetoric Job Search Committee: 2001-2002 (ad hoc), 1998-99 (ad hoc), 1996-97 (ad hoc), 2001-2002; 2009-2010

Communication Science Job Search Committee, 2006-2007, co-chair

Courses Taught                                                                                                                                                     Honors Public Speaking 
Theory and Practice of Argumentation and Debate
Introduction to Human Communication 
Advanced Speech Composition 
Great Speakers and Speeches 
Classical Rhetorical Theory 
Principles of Rhetorical Criticism 
Rhetoric of American Women’s Social and Political Discourse, 1635-1850 
Rhetoric of American Women’s Social and Political Discourse, 1850-present
Esther for Activists, Harvard Divinity School (Fall 2004)
Seminar in Rhetorical Criticism
Rhetoric of Twentieth-Century Social Movements: Student Left, Civil Rights, Women’s Liberation
Rhetoric of African American Discourse
Freedom and Responsibility: Discourses of Belonging in 19th-Century America
Freedom and Responsibility: Discourses of Belonging in the U.S. from the Civil War to World War I

Experiential Education Courses
The Civil Rights Movement as Human Rights Struggle: History and Discourse. In both 2006 and 2007, I donated my spring break to the University to travel with a busload of students to Selma, Alabama, (as well as Louisville, Birmingham, various cities in Mississippi, and Memphis) to engage in service work and experiential learning about the civil rights movement.

History and Discourse of the U.S. Homophile Movement, 1950-1970: Exploring History and Current Consequences. The first two days of this three-week summer course in 2008 involved classroom meetings that laid the groundwork for a ten-day trip to Cleveland, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, and New York City. In these cities we will meet with living leaders of the nascent lesbian and gay civil rights movement and visit sites related to the movement.

Graduate Student Committees                                                                                                                            
Current advisees: Amy Tully, Kelly Jakes, Boya Wei, Jennifer Keohane
2011    Melanie Hofthyzer, dissertation committee (English)
2010	Charles Yu, dissertation committee (Hebrew and Semitic Studies)
2010	Ryan Quintana, dissertation committee (History)
2009     Maegan Parker Brooks, dissertation director (Rhetoric, Communication Arts)
2009     Sarah Jedd, dissertation director (Rhetoric, Communication Arts)
2009 	Kelly Jakes, M.A. thesis advisor (Rhetoric, Communication Arts)
2009 	Rasha Diab, dissertation committee, Department of English
2009 	David Greene, M.A. thesis committee, Department of Afro-American Studies
2008	Robert Ray Betts, dissertation director (Rhetoric, Communication Arts)
2008	Kristin Wisnewski dissertation committee, Department of French & Italian 
2008	Deborah Houden dissertation committee, Communication Arts, (Communication Science)
2008	Sarah Noyes Seene, masters thesis committee, Department of History
2008	Jeffery Drury, dissertation committee, Communication Arts (Rhetoric)
2008	Elsa Gassert, preliminary examination committee, Communication Arts (Rhetoric)
2008	Pamela Conners, preliminary examination committee, Communication Arts (Rhetoric)
2008	Amy Tully, preliminary examination committee, Communication Arts (Rhetoric)
2008	Michelle Murray, preliminary examination committee, Communication Arts (Rhetoric)
2006     Jonathan Daigle, English (American Literature), dissertation
2005	Sarah M. Jedd, (Rhetoric), preliminary examination (adviser)
2005	Kathryn Palmer, (Rhetoric), preliminary examination
2005	Maegan Parker, (Rhetoric), masters thesis (adviser)
2005	Kathryn Palmer, (Rhetoric), masters thesis
2005	Michelle La Vigne, (Rhetoric), masters thesis
2004 	Travis Koplow, English (American Literature), dissertation
2004     Ronald Becker, Communication Arts (Media and Cultural Studies), dissertation
2003	Daniel Graff, History (U.S. History), dissertation						
2003	Amy Shore, Cinema Studies Department, New York University, dissertation		
2002	Doug Battema, Communication Arts (Media and Cultural Studies), dissertation
2002	Clare Bratten, Communication Arts (Media and Cultural Studies), dissertation
2002	Norma Coates, Communication Arts (Media and Cultural Studies), dissertation
2002	James Roger Black, Classics and Religious Studies, dissertation
2000	Mary L. Templin, English (American Literature), dissertation
1999	Joan Gjevre, English (American Literature), dissertation
1999	Amy Kort, English (American Literature), dissertation
1999	Thomas Allen, English (American Literature), dissertation
1999	Robert Kraig, Communication Arts (Rhetoric), dissertation
1999	Daniel Mortensen, Classics, dissertation
1999	Kirsten Jamsen, English (Rhetoric and Composition), dissertation

Professional Organizations                                                                                                                                   National Communication Association						
Rhetoric Society of America
Central States Communication Association
Organization of American Historians
Organization for Research on Women and Communication