Phone: (864) 656-1551
Office: 709 Strode
Email: sashton@clemson.edu
Website: http://people.clemson.edu/~sashton/ashton.html
Research Interests
Susanna Ashton received her BA in English from Vassar College and her MA and Ph.D in American Literature from the University of Iowa. Her first book, Collaborators in Literary America,1870-1920 (Palgrave 2003) examines literary authorship at the turn-of-the-century. Her research areas concern the history of the book, collaborative writing, 19th century literary magazines, copyright, gift books, best-sellers, Shakespeare, African American editors, and the African American Periodical Press. Some writers her scholarship focuses on include Edith Wharton, W. E. B. Du Bois, Mark Twain, Charles Chesnutt, Booker T. Washington, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Stanley Braithwaite, Robert Grant, John Boyle O'Reilly, and William Dean Howells.
Her current project is BOUND: Black Men as Book Men - currently in preparation for Penn State University Press.
Recent Publications
"'In a Bibleistic way' Approaches to Teaching Nineteenth-Century American Poetry through Book and Periodical History" forthcoming chapter in Approaches to Teaching With Book History a collection forthcoming in the Book History series of Pickering and Chatto, London (January 2006?).
"A Medium of Corruption: Stephen Burroughs and the founding of the Bridgehampton Library (1791)" Libraries and Culture 38, 2 (Spring 2003): 93-120.
An edited and annotated edition of Moondyne, by John Boyle O'Reilly - University of Cork - electronic press (CELT project).
"O'Reilly and the Moondyne," History Ireland , 10.1 (Spring 2002) 38-42.
"W.E.B. Du Bois's Horizon: Documenting Movements of the Color Line," MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States ), 27.1 Spring 2002.
"Veribly a Purple Cow: The Whole Family and a Collaborative Search for Coherence," Studies in the Novel, 33.1 (Spring 2001): 51-79.
"Authorial Affiliations, Brander Matthews in Partnership," Symploke: A Journal of Comparative Theory and Literature, 7.1-2 (2000): 165-18.
"Compound Walls: Transcultural Discourse in Eva Jane Price's Letters from a Chinese Mission, 1880-1900," Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 17.3 (1997): 80-94.
These 'Colored' United States: African American Essays from the 1920s, co-edited with Tom Lutz (Rutgers University Press, 1996.
Phone: (864) 656-5381
Office: 813 Strode
Email: brayfor@clemson.edu
Research Interests
Dr. Barfield is conducting interviews about "grapevine" radio, an early program delivery system used in South Carolina mill villages in the 1930s. My main project is a history of television's audiences from the beginning to 1980.
Recent Publications
"Premiums," "Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy," "Clifton Fadiman," and "The Shadow"--to the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Radio, to be published by Routledge in collaboration with the Museum of Broadcasting in Chicago.
Director, Graduate Studies in English
Phone: (864) 656-5405
Office: 607 Strode
Email: balma@clemson.edu
Phone: (864) 656-3289
Office: 804 Strode
Email: cbushne@clemson.edu
Research Interests
Cameron Bushnell earned her doctorate at University of Maryland where she studied twentieth-century Anglophone Postcolonial literature and critical theory. Her current research focuses on literary constructions of alterity in music and combines a continuing interest in international politics begun during a masters program in government and politics, ongoing study of viola, and current work on global politics and its expression in aesthetic forms and in the humanities. Her research explores the intersections of postcoloniality, politics, and Western music in the millennial decade of the twentieth century, examining the ways in which both postcolonial and African/Ethnic-American texts, such as Toni Morrison’s Jazz and J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace employ thematic or structural representations of Western music to extend and transform the field of literary postcoloniality.
Recent Publications
“Jazz in Translation: Developing a Racial Politics” (book article) accepted. Resounding Pasts: Essays on Literature, Music, and Cultural Memory. Ed. Dragoslav Momcilovich. Newcastle on Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 24 pps.
“The Art of Tuning: A Politics of Exile” (resubmitted after revision upon invitation from Contemporary Literature), 40 pps.
“Foundational Acts: Enunciating a West Indian Literary Tradition” (article) under consideration by South Asian Review, 25 pps.
Director, Center for Electronic and Digital Publishing
Editor, The South Carolina Review
Phone: (864) 656-5399
Office: 611 Strode
Email: cwayne@clemson.edu
Website: http://people.clemson.edu/~cwayne
Research Interests
Victorian through twentieth-century British and Anglo-Irish literature (especially poetry); American writers (1855 to present); textual-genetic, bibliographic, and interdisciplinary studies of literature and literary history; history of the book and literary editing (in theory and practice); peace politics; poetry and poetics; W. B. Yeats and his circle; Leonard and Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury.
Recent Publications
Yeats and English Renaissance Literature (London: Macmillan, 1991).
Women in the Milieu of Leonard and Virginia Woolf: Peace, Politics, and Education (New York: Pace, 1998), eds. W. K. Chapman and J. M. Manson).
The Countess Cathleen: Manuscript Materials by W. B. Yeats (Ithaca and London: Cornell UP, 1999), eds. M. J. Sidnell and W. K. Chapman..
Yeats's Collaborations: Yeats Annual No. 15 (London: Palgrave, 2002), eds. W. K. Chapman and W. Gould.
The Dreaming of the Bones and Calvary: Manuscript Materials by W. B. Yeats (Ithaca and London: Cornell UP, 2002), ed. W. K. Chapman.
Phone: (864) 656-7892
Office: 609 Strode
Email: hding@clemson.edu
Publications
“Confucius’ Virtue-Centered Rhetoric: A Case Study of the Analects with Mixed Research Methods.” Rhetoric Review. 26.2 (2007): 142–59
“Genre analysis of Personal Statements: Analysis of Moves in Application Letters to Medical Schools.” English for Specific Purposes. 26 (2007): 368–392.
Phone: (864) 656-3290
Office: 808 Strode
Email: esterli@clemson.edu
Publications Information
Skip Eisiminger has recently published poems in the Pegasus Review, the Little Brown Review, the Debut Review, the Lullwater Review, and the New Zoo Review. In June of this year, The Clemson Digital Press published Integration with Dignity which he had the privilege to edit. The book tells the story of Harvey Gantt's entrance to Clemson in 1963. Eisiminger has also given two SC Humanities Council lectures (Richland County Library and Abbeville County libraries) this year.
Phone: (864) 656-5416
Office: 606 Strode
Email: jbfield@clemson.edu
Research Interests
Jonathan Beecher Field received his doctorate in English literature from the University of Chicago in 2004. He is currently revising his dissertation for publication under the title "Errands into the Metropolis: Colonial Authors in Revolutionary London." This project uses a transatlantic framework to examine the literary performances of New England religious dissidents and their more orthodox opponents in London during the Interregnum. He is also working on an article on strategies of literary allusion in early American novels. His teaching interests include early American literature, historical fiction, and the American novel.
Phone: (864) 656-3168
Office: 608 Strode
Email: tfishma@clemson.edu
Research Interests
Teddi Fishman has a wide range of research interests that fall under the headings of rhetoric, ethics, and professional communication. She has been involved, for a number of years, in distance education and has presented papers and conducted workshops aimed at improving pedagogy through increased interaction and dialogue. She participates actively in ethics workshops and has written about issues of plagiarism and surveillance in academic settings. She maintains an interest in the writing that police and other law enforcement officers do and more broadly in governmental and institutional rhetoric, especially political discourse. Most recently she has become interested in the ways that spaces tell (or silence) historical narratives.
Recent Publications
“New Designs for Communication Across the Curriculum ” In collaboration with Andrew Billings, Morgan Gresham, Angie Justice, Michael Neal, Barbara Ramirez, Summer Smith Taylor, Melissa Tidwell Powell, Donna Winchell, Kathleen B. Yancey, and Art Young. Forthcoming: Utah State University Press
“Beyond Arthur Anderson: Searching for Answers” Co-authored with Roger Doost Published in Managerial Auditing Journal, Vol 19 No. 5 2004 Emerald Publishing. Archived online at http://zerlina.emeraldinsight.com/vl=3749880/cl=46/nw=1/rpsv/cgi-bin/linker?ini= emerald&reqidx=/cw/mcb/02686902/v19n5/s4/p623
“As it was in the beginning: Distance Education and Technology—Past, Present, and Future” Published in Kairos , Volume 7, Issue Three. Susan Antlitz, Will Banks, Ron Fortune, and Jim Kalmbach editors. http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/7.3/binder2.html?coverweb/fishman/index.html (article)
Phone: (864) 656-3040
Office: 806 Strode
Email: texcyn@clemson.edu
Research Interests
Cynthia Haynes is Director of First-Year Composition and Associate Professor of English. Her research interests are rhetoric, composition, electronic pedagogy, virtual systems theory, feminist theory, critical theory, computer games studies, digital aesthetics, and the rhetoric of war and terrorism. One of her main projects has been designing and teaching rhetoric and writing in synchronous multimedia learning environments (MOOs), and with Jan Rune Holmevik (also now here at Clemson) I co-founded Lingua MOO at UT-Dallas (1995). She is currently working on a book manuscript, Beta Rhetoric: Writing, Technology, and Deconstruction.
Phone: (864) 656-6991
Office: 511 Strode
Email: hillgos@clemson.edu
Research Interests
Dr. Hilligoss' main research interests include visual communication, computers and writing, creative nonfiction.
Recent Publications
Visual Communication: A Writer's Guide, 1999. 2nd ed. with Tharon Howard, 2002.
Recent book chapters:
"Getting Started in a Networked Writing Classroom: Projects and Resources," in Electronic Networks: Crossing Boundaries, Creating Communities, 1999.
With Joanne Addison. "Technological Fronts: Lesbian Lives 'on the Line' in Networked Classrooms," in Feminist Cyberscapes: Essays on Gender in Electronic Spaces, 1999.
Phone: (864) 656-3193
Office: 315 Strode
Email: jholmev@clemson.edu
Phone: (864) 656-3488
Office: 812 Strode
Email: tharon@clemson.edu
Website: http://people.clemson.edu/~tharon
Research Interests
Tharon Howard earned his doctorate in English from Purdue University where he studied rhetoric & composition and literary theory. He is the current director of the Master of Arts in Professional Communication program and the Usability Testing Facility. One of his current research projects is his grant for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. He has taught seminars in usability testing, visual communication, digital publishing, rhetoric and professional communication, rhetoric of web publishing, professional writing, and writing proposals & grant applications (Spring 2004).
Recent Book Publications
Visual Design for Digital Documents: A User-Centered Approach. With Susan Hilligoss. New York: Longman, under contract.
Visual Communication: A Writer’s Guide. 2nd Ed. With Susan Hilligoss. New York: Longman, 2001.
Electronic Networks: Crossing Boundaries. Co-Edited with Chris Benson, Dixie Goswami, and Walter Gooch. New York: Heinemann Boynton-Cook, 1999.
Recent CD-ROM Publication
Academic Integrity Initiative. (with Dan Wueste, Mark Charney, and Chip Egan). Robert J. Rutland Center for Ethics, Clemson University, 2002.
Recent Articles & Book Chapters
“Who ‘Owns’ Electronic Texts?” Reprinted in Professional Writing and Rhetoric: Readings from the Field. Ed. Tim Peeples. New York: Longman, 2002.
“Up Close with Tharon Howard: Architect of the Online Usability Community.” (Interview with David Dick). Usability Interface (Aug. 2001): 6-7.
“The Role of Technology in WAC/CAC Programs.” (with Michael Day, Christine Hult, Charles Moran, Mike Palmquist, and Donna Reiss). Academic.Writing, Nov. 2000. http://aw.colostate.edu/forums/fall2000/.
“Getting Started in Usability Testing.” Usability Interface (Jan. 2000): 1, 13.
“Hypermedia and the Future of Networked Composition: Inter/Disciplining Our ‘Selves’” (with Jane Perkins). Electronic Networks: Crossing Boundaries. Eds. T. Howard, C. Benson, D. Goswami, and W. Gooch. New York: Heinemann Boynton-Cook, 1999.
“Designing Computer Classrooms for Technical Communication Programs.” Computers and Technical Communication: A Sourcebook for Teachers and Program Directors. Ed. Stuart Selber. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1998.
“A Book Review of Dynamics in Document Design.” Journal of Business Communication 35.4 (Oct. 1998): 536-39.
“Four Designs for Electronic Writing Projects.” The Dialogic Classroom: Teachers Integrating Computer Technology, Pedagogy, and Research. Eds. J. Galin and J. Latchaw. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1998. 210-240.
Phone: (864) 656-3446
Office: 711 Strode
Email: mjacobi@clemson.edu
Phone: (864) 656-5394
Office: 602 Strode
Email: skatz@clemson.edu
Website: http://people.clemson.edu/~skatz/
Research Interests
Steve Katz’s scholarly interests range from ethics in technical communication to the nexus of rhetoric, poetry, and science. His research foci include rhetorical analyses of: ideologies of new technologies; conventions and ethics of styles in biotech and medical communication with the public; and the materialities and uses of language in different forms of writing, in religion, and in electronic media.
Recent Book Publications
Writing in the Sciences: Exploring Conventions of Scientific Discourse (with Ann Penrose). 2nd Edition. NY: Allyn and Bacon Series in Technical Communication (Addison Wesley Longman), 2004
The Epistemic Music of Rhetoric: Toward the Temporal Dimension of Reader Response and Writing. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996
Recent Chapbook
Nana! (poems) Raleigh, NC: Moses, Ink, 2005.
Recent Articles & Book Chapters
“Rhetorical Assumptions, Rhetorical Risks: Communication Models in Genetic Counseling” (with Michelle R. Mebust). In The Rhetoric of Healthcare, Barbara Heifferon and Stuart Brown, eds. NJ: Hampton Press. Forthcoming
“Composing Identity in Cyberspace: A ‘Rhetorical Ethnography’ of Writing on Jewish Discussion Lists in Germany and the United States” (with Michal Anne Moskow). Judaic Perspectives on Writing, Literacy, and Pedagogy: History, Politics, Culture, & Identity, Andrea Greenbaum and Deborah H. Holdstein, eds. N.J: Hampton Press. In Press
“The Phantom Machine: The Invisible Ideology of Email (A Cultural Critique)” (with Myra Moses). Critical Power Tools: Technical Communication and Cultural Studies. J. Blake Scott, Bernadette Longo, and Katherine V Willis, eds. SUNY P (2006): 71-105
“Biotechnology and Global Miscommunication with the Public: Rhetorical Assumptions, Stylistic Acts, Ethical Implications.” Presentation published in IEEE Professional Communication Society’s Proceedings of the International ProfessionalCommunication Conference (2005), Limerick, Ireland: 274-280 (selected for inclusion in Connecting People with Technology: Issues in Professional Communication, George Hayhoe and Helen Grady, eds. Baywood Press. Forthcoming)
“The Ethic of Expediency: Classical Rhetoric, Technology, and the Holocaust” (College English 54 [March 1992: 255-75]) republished in Central Works in Technical Communication, Stuart Selber and Johndan Johnson Eilola, eds. Oxford University Press, 2004. 195-210
Letter as Essence: The Rhetorical (Im)pulse of the Hebrew Alefbet.” Journal of Communication and Religion 26 (2003). Special Issue on Jewish Rhetoric, David Franks, ed. 125-160
“Language and Persuasion in Biotechnology Communication with the Public: How to Not Say What You’re Not Going to Not Say and Not Say It.” AgBioForum 4:2 (2001): http://www.agbioforum.org
Phone: (864) 656-5411
Office: 316 Strode
Email: badk@clemson.edu
Research Interests
Bill Koon, Professor of English, teaches courses in American and southern literature. Formerly head of the English department, he was a Fulbright Professor in southern studies to Austria and director of a National Endowment for the Humanities Institute on southern studies.
Recent Publications
He is editor of the two-volume collection, CLASSIC SOUTHERN HUMOR (Peachtree Publishers), and the author of the standard biography of Hank Williams (Greenwood Press). He edited a collection of Civil War fiction, OLD GLORY AND THE STARS AND BARS (USC Press), and, in 2002, he published HANK WILLIAMS, SO LONESOME (Univ. Press of Mississippi).
Phone: (864) 656-5390
Office: 803 Strode
Email: mlemahi@clemson.edu
Research Interests
Twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature; critical theory; philosophy of language; Native American and African American literature; twentieth- and twenty-first-century British and Anglophone literature; modernism and postmodernism; the novel and narrative theory.
Phone: (864) 656-3041
Office: 306 Strode
Email: kmangan@clemson.edu
Research Interests
Kim Manganelli specializes in nineteenth-century British and American literature. Her current book project, "The Tragic Mulatta and the Tragic Muse: Erotic Spectacles of Race," employs a transatlantic approach in order to investigate the powerful connections between the construction of racial identity and the trafficking of female sexuality in the nineteenth-century American and British marketplace. Defining the cultural and social situations in the United States and Britain that produced the Tragic Mulatta and the Tragic Muse, this project explores how racial performance and self-commodification aided the mixed-race slave and the Jewish actress in their struggle for sexual autonomy, self-definition, and self-ownership.
She is currently teaching a sophomore British Literature survey and a senior seminar, "Victorian Secrets and Sensations." She looks forward to developing courses on the following topics: The English Novel, Race and the American Novel, Women in the Nineteenth-Century Marketplace, British Literature in the Age of Empire, and Slavery in the Transatlantic Imagination.
Phone: (864) 656-1077
Office: 809 Strode
Email: mcgrath@clemson.edu
Research Interests
Romanticism, Aesthetic and Literary Theory, History of Poetry and Poetics, Shakespeare
Publications
"Thomas De Quincey and the Language of Literature: Or, on the Necessity of Ignorance." SEL 47.4 (Autumn 2007).
Phone: (864) 656-3193
Office: 315 Strode
Email: mmichel@clemson.edu
Research Interests
Michelle Martin's primary area of research is children's and young adult literature. Her dissertation concentrated on children's books and sponsored films that deal with menstruation and how these different forms of media convey messages about this physiological process to girl consumers, but her more recent research focuses on African-American children's literature. She published Brown Gold: Milestones of African-American Children's Picture Books, 1845-2002 with Routledge in 2004 and is currently working on research for a book on the collaborative and individual works that Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps wrote for children. She also co-edited with Claudia Nelson an anthology titled Sexual Pedagogies: Sex Education in Britain , Australia , and America 1879-2000 that Palgrave published in 2003.
Recent Publications
“Snapshots in Blood” in Don’t Cramp My Style: Stories About “That” Time of the Month, edited by Lisa Rowe Fraustino. (Non-fictional young adult essay.)
Pending Publications
"Eco-edu-tainment: The Construction of the Child in Contemporary Environmental Children's Music" in anthology Wild Things: Children's Literature, Ecocriticism, and Ecological Literacy. Publication date: 2002.
"Historical America through the Eyes of the Black Child." Obsidian III 3.1 (2001): 115-125.
"Postmodern Periods: Menstruation Media in the 1990s." The Lion and the Unicorn 23.3 (1999): 294-95.
"Three Decades of Strong Women: The Coretta Scott King Awards." The Five Owls 14.2 (1999): 33-35.
"Hey, Who's the Kid with the Green Umbrella?: A Re-evaluation of the Black-a-Moor and Little Black Sambo." The Lion and the Unicorn 22.2 (1998): 147-62.
Phone: (864) 656-5390
Office: 803 Strode
Email: km@clemson.edu
Recent Publications
2000--"Minor Injuries," short story, South Carolina Review
2002--"The Children of Dead State Troopers," short story, New England Review
Forthcoming Publications:
2002--"Geraldine Loves," short story, New England Review
"Mr. Jordan's Arrival," short story, The Sun
2003--The Greyhound God, novel, The University of Nevada Press
2004--Three or Four Hills and a Cloud (tentative title), short story collection, The University of Nevada Press
Chair, Dept. of English
Phone: (864) 656-3151
Office: 801 Strode
Email: lmorris@clemson.edu
Website: http://www.clemson.edu/~lmorris
Selected Publications
-Books
The Constitution of Literature: Literacy, Democracy, and Early English Literary Criticism. <http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?book_id=5786>. (Stanford University Press, 2008).
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century section of English Literature in Context. <http://www.cambridge.org/features/literature/poplawski/default.htm>, Paul Poplawski, ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2008).
Debating the Canon: A Reader, from Addison to Nafisi.
<http://www.palgrave-usa.com/catalog/product.aspx?isbn=1403968209> (Palgrave/MacMillan, 2005).
From the Temple to the Castle: An Architectural History of British Literature, 1660-1760. <http://www.upress.virginia.edu/books/morrissey.html>. (University Press of Virginia, 1999).
-Articles
"Eve's Otherness and the New Ethical Criticism," New Literary History
<http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/new_literary_history/>, Spring, 2001.
"Derrida's 'Nostalgeria': A Post-Colonial Reading of 'Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences'," Postmodern Culture <http://iath.virginia.edu/pmc>. (January 1999).
Phone: (864) 656-4017
Office: 707 Strode
Email: ppalmer@clemson.edu
Research Interests
R. Barton Palmer's research interests are in Medieval Literature, Chaucer, English/French literary relations, and film studies. His editorial projects include serving as General Editor (with Teresa Kennedy) for Routledge Medieval Texts
and for Traditions in World Cinema (with Steven Schneider and Linda Badley) at Edinburgh University Press.
Recent Publications
(With Daniel Leech-Wilkinson) Guillaume de Machaut: Le Livre du Voir-Dit (The Book of the True Poem) (New York: Garland Publishing, 1999)
Chaucer's French Contemporaries: The Poetry/Poetics of Self and Tradition (New York: AMS Press, 1999)
(With Kristen Figg) Jean Froissart: An Anthology of Narrative and Lyric Poetry (New York: Routledge, 2001)
(With Cheryl Lower) Joseph L. Mankiewicz: Critical Essays, Bibliography, and Filmography (Jefferson, NC: McFarland Publishing, 2001)
Guillaume de Machaut: La Prise d'Alexandrie (The Taking of Alexandria) (New York: Routledge, 2001)
Projects
(With others in editorial collective) Understanding Film Genres (McGraw-Hill, forthcoming 2003)
19th Century American Fiction on Screen
20th Century American Fiction on Screen
(Companion contributory volumes, forthcoming from Cambridge UP 2004)
(With David Boyd) After Hitchcock: Imitation/Influence/Intertextuality (forthcoming from U of Texas Press 2004)
(With William W. Kibler)
Medieval Epic and Romance
Medieval Legends
Arthurian Fictions
(3 volume textbook series, forthcoming from College Publishing 2003-6)
Joel and Ethan Coen (forthcoming from U of Illinois Press, 2004)
David Cronenberg (contracted by U of Illinois Press, projected publication date 2005)
(With Mary-Jo Arn and John Fox) Charles d'Orleans: The Complete French Poetry
(forthcoming from Arizona State University Press, 2004)
(With Robert Bray) Hollywood's Tennessee: Tennessee Williams On Screen
(forthcoming from U of Texas Press 2005)
(With Linda Badley and Steven Schneider) Traditions in World Cinema Flagship Volume
(forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press, 2004)
Book chapters forthcoming 2004 in 1. James Ursini, Film Noir Reader 4
(Limelight); 2. Robert Stam, Companion to Literature in Film (Blackwell); and 3.
Robert Kolker, Kubrick's 2001: A Casebook (Oxford University Press)
Phone: (864) 656-3543
Office: 708 Strode
Email: cpaul@clemson.edu
Research Interests
Catherine Paul's research interests include transatlantic modernist studies, literature and visual culture, museum studies, American literature, poetry, and pedagogy. Over the last several years, thanks in part to her participation in a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar at the American Academy in Rome, she has been expanding her work on interrelations between literature and visual culture. Her current book project examines Ezra Pound's writings from the 1930s in the context of cultural nationalist movements that were a part of Mussolini's fascist regime. After a brief treatment of Pound’s early visits to Italy, in which he had a tourist’s view of the young nation, she turns her focus to his edition Guido Cavalcanti Rime (1932), reading that volume as his foray into the cultural nationalism that had developed in Italy by the 1920s and that was important to that nation’s growing sense of itself as a unified country. In the course of her work she addresses writings by Margherita Sarfatti, art critic and cultural advisor to Mussolini, artworks by Mario Sironi and other members of the Novecento group, large-scale public exhibitions designed to help ordinary Italians understand and invest in the fascist project, and architectural projects like Giuseppe Terragni’s Danteum. The book follows Pound’s intellectual trajectory through the 1930s and into the 1940s, when he was arrested by the American Army for treason because of his investment in the cultural and propaganda work of Mussolini’s regime.
Catherine Paul’s research for this book has taken her to several cities in Italy, where she has explored buildings and artworks made during the fascist period as well as many older monuments that were reinterpreted during the fascist period. In May 2004, she will be the Donald C. Gallup Fellowship in American Literature, conducting archival research for this project at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Recent Publications
Poetry in the Museums of Modernism: Yeats, Pound, Moore, Stein. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002.
“Poetry Across the Curriculum: Four Disciplinary Perspectives.” Co-authored with Art Young, Patricia Connor-Greene, Jerry Waldvogel. Language and Learning Across the Disciplines 6:2 (June 2003): 14-44.
"'Discovery, Not Salvage': Marianne Moore's Curatorial Methods." Studies in the Literary Imagination 32:1 (Spring 1999): 91-114. Also to be reprinted in Critical Response to Marianne Moore, edited by Elizabeth Gregory, forthcoming from Greenwood Press, 2002.
Phone: (864) 656-3457
Office: 615 Strode
Email: rivlin@clemson.edu
Phone: (864) 656-5418
Office: 506 Strode
Email: jsample@clemson.edu
Phone: (864) 656-5410
Office: 613 Strode
Email: sparks@clemson.edu
Phone: (864) 656-6689
Office: 610 Strode
Email: slsmith@clemson.edu
Research Interests
Summer Taylor studies writing assessment, the teaching and practice of writing in engineering. Recently, she has conducted research comparing writing and engineering teachers' standards for evaluating students' technical writing. She is expanding this study to examine engineering teachers' approaches to commenting on students' writing. She generally investigates research questions using empirical methods. Dr. Taylor is also Director of the Advanced Writing Program. She coordinates the undergraduate business and technical writing courses, working with the teachers to develop more relevant and innovative curricula. She also studies the effectiveness of techniques for managing client-based projects in professional communication classes. Her project in this area examines standards used by clients and writing faculty to evaluate student work.
Recent Publications
"What is 'Good' Technical Communication: A Comparison of the Standards of Engineering and Writing Teachers." Technical Communication Quarterly, Winter 2003.
“The Role of Technical Expertise in Engineering and Writing Teachers’ Evaluations of Students’ Writing.” Written Communication, January 2003.
“Managing the Growth of Service Learning: Towards a Model for a Sustainable Program.” In Managing Change and Growth in Technical and Scientific Communication. Lubbock, TX: The Council of Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication: Conference Proceedings, 2002.
"The Genre of the End Comment: Conventions in Teacher Responses to Student Writing." College Composition and Communication, May 1997.
Director, Rhetorics, Communication & Information Design PhD
Phone: (864) 656-6411
Office: 711 Strode
Email: sophist@clemson.edu
Website: http://people.clemson.edu/~SOPHIST
Research Interests
Victor's areas of special interests are histories and theories of rhetorics (Greco-Roman, Early Modern, Modern, Postmodern); historiographies of rhetorics; contemporary writing theories and pedagogies; rhetorical invention; technology and writing (electracy, new media, digital studies); architecture, photography, film, and video; contemporary philosophy (German, French, Italian), and the failures of cultural critique.
Recent Publications
Victor's first book of a trilogy-- Negation, Subjectivity, and The History of Rhetoric (SUNY P 1997, 400 pages)--examines three contemporary historians of the Sophists and how these historians as well as others represent Sophists and, in particular, Isocrates and Gorgias under the signs of negativity and sub-jectivity (ab-jectivity). The second book-- Chaste Rape (under consideration for publication, 500 pages)--examines how Western rhetorics and cultures are represented under the signs of negativity and sexual violence. The third book-- Design as Dasein (in progress)--will examine how philosophical and architectural attitudes are represented under the signs of negativity and death.
Additionally, he is working on two other books: The Coming Peculiar Pedagogies: A User's Guide , in progress (includes samplings unmixed of beta versions of texts and videos on performing peculiar pedagogies), is part of a larger project on peculiar pedagogies developed for and by a community of post-pedagogues. James A. Berlin and Cultural Studies (a sampling and remix of a seminar on Berlin).
Other Recent Publications
Writing Histories of Rhetoric (SIUP, 1993).
PRE/TEXT: The First Decade (U of Pittsburgh P, 1993).
CyberReader (Longman/Pearson. 1st, 2nd, and abridged editions).
"Love, Lust, Rhetorics (from Double Binds to Intensities)." Living Rhetoric and Composition: Stories of the Discipline . Ed. Duane Roen, Stewart Brown, and Theresa Enos. NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1998. 143-58.
"The Hermeneutics of Abandonment." Parallax 4.4 (1998): 123-39.
"From Heuristic to Aleatory Procedures; or, Towards 'Writing the Accident'." Inventing a Discipline: Rhetoric Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Young , Ed. Maureen Daly Goggin. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 2000. 185-206.
"Abandoned to Writing: Notes Toward Several Provocations ." Enculturation 5.1 (Fall 2003): http://enculturation.gmu.edu/5_1/vitanza.html (A continuation of "The Hermeneutics of Abandonment")
"Favorinus." In Classical Rhetorics and Rhetoricians: Critical Studies and Sources . West Port, Conn, and London: Praeger, 2005. 148-52.
"Adieu Derrida," in Poiesis 7 (Toronto, EGS Press, 2005): 64-65.
Associate Dean, Graduate School
Phone: (864) 656-2156; 656-2179
Office: 613 Strode
Email: sean@clemson.edu
Research Interests
Dr. Williams' research focuses on online communication and its intersection with workplace communication. Some specific research areas include information design theory and especially user experience design for online communication and virtual worlds; digital literacy for workplace applications; project management in communication design; and visual communication.
Recent Publications
“User Experience Design for Technical Communication.” Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the IEEE Professional Communication Society. October 2007.
“Using Color as a Navigation Device in Online Information Spaces.” Proceedings of the 7th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Knowledge Organization.
“Composition Meets Visual Communication: Historical Perspectives and New Questions” with Susan Hilligoss. In Digital Writing Research: Technologies, Methodologies, and Ethical Issues, Eds. Danielle Devoss and Heidi McKee. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2007.
“What You See is NOT What You Get: A Cultural Analysis of WYSIWYG Web-Authoring Tools. Forthcoming in Digital Tools in Cultural Contexts: Assessing the Implications of New Media, Eds. Byron Hawk, James A. Inman, Ollie Oviedo. University of Minnesota Press.
“Positioning Technical Communication for the Creative Economy,” with Linn Bekins. Technical Communication 53.3 (August 2006): 287-95.
“The Future is the Past: Has Technical Communication Come of Age?” With Kathy Pringle. Technical Communication 52.3 (August 2005): 361-70.
“Civic engagement through for-profit service learning: a democratic paradox” with Renee Love. Reflections 3.1 (Winter 2005): 134-54.
Phone: (864) 656-7892
Office: 609 Strode
Email: winched@clemson.edu
Research Interests
Dr. Winchell received a B.A. and an M.A. from Florida State University and a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from Texas Christian University. Having in the past coordinated the teaching done by Graduate Teaching Assistants in the department, she now teaches freshman composition and Ethnic American Literature. Her literary specialty is African American women's novels. Her current research interest in the area of composition is teaching via computers and, specifically, electronic means of synthesizing student writing. Her current research includes portfolio assessment of writing, digital portfolios, laptop-based pedagogy.
Recent Publications
Elements of Argument. 8 th ed. Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, 2005 (with Annette Rottenberg.
Structure of Argument. 5 th ed. Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, 2005 (with Annette Rottenberg.
Academic Integrity/The Integrity of the Academy (comp.)--2002 customized freshman anthology
Science and Values: New Frontiers, Perennial Questions (comp.)--2001 customized freshman anthology
Common Knowledge (comp.)--2000 customized freshman anthology
“Placing Grammar and Mechanics in Composition Sequences.” Instructor’s Manual and Answer Key to Accompany Hodges’ Harbrace Handbook. 14th ed. (Fort Worth: Harcourt, 2001): 1-16.
“Placing Grammar and Mechanics in Composition Sequences.” Instructor’s Manual and Answer Key to Accompany The Writer’s Harbrace Handbook (Fort Worth: Harcourt, 2001): 1-15.
Phone: (864) 656-3229
Office: 307 Strode
Email: ixtlan@clemson.edu
Research Interests
Mark Winchell holds B. A. and M. A. degrees from West Virginia University and a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt. After receiving the Ph.D., he taught in temporary positions at the University of Tennessee, Nashville, and the Ohio State University. He was assistant professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi from 1980-85. He then came to Clemson University as an associate professor and was promoted to full professor in 1988. He currently directs Clemson's program in the Great Works of Western Civilization.
Winchell's publications include books on Joan Didion, William F. Buckley, Jr., Leslie Fiedler, and neoconservative criticism, all in Twayne's United States Authors Series, as well as monographs on Horace McCoy, John Gregory Dunne, and William Humphrey in the Boise State University Western Writers Series. His edited collection The Vanderbilt Tradition: Essays in Honor of Thomas Daniel Young was published by the Louisiana State University Press in 1991. In 1988, his book Talmadge: A Political Legacy, A Politician's Life (written in collaboration with Herman E. Talmadge) was voted Georgia Biography of the Year by the Dixie Council of Authors and Journalists. In 1997, his book Cleanth Brooks and the Rise of Modern Criticism won the Robert Penn Warren / Cleanth Brooks Award, given annually by the Center for Robert Penn Warren Studies to the most distinguished book of literary criticism published in English during the previous year. His two most recent books are the authorized biographies of Donald Davidson and Leslie Fiedler, both published by the University of Missouri Press.
Over the past quarter century, Winchell has published over 120 essays and reviews in such periodicals and books as the Southern Review, the American Conservative, the Hollins Critic, the Mississippi Quarterly, the Canadian Review of American Studies, the book section of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the History of Southern Literature. His work appears frequently in the Sewanee Review and Chronicles, and he is a contributing editor to the Southern Partisan.
Winchell is a fellow of the Saint George Tucker Society, a board member of the Institute for Southern History and Culture, and past president of both the South Atlantic chapter of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals and the South Carolina Association of Scholars. In 2001, he was named a distinguished alumnus of the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences of West Virginia University. In addition to editing twelve issues of the South Carolina Review, he was guest editor of a special country music issue of the Southern Quarterly, published in the spring of 1984. He is also a frequent participant in literary and professional conferences.
Phone: (864) 656-3062
Office: 616 Strode
Email: apyoung@clemson.edu
Website: http://people.clemson.edu/~apyoung
Research Interests
Arthur Young's main research interests are in communication across the curriculum, particularly writing across the curriculum, as well as theories and practices in teaching writing and teaching literature. Currently, he is working on research projects involving poetry across the curriculum, electronic communication across the curriculum, the preparation of English teachers, and the transference of writing skills and abilities from composition classes to classes in the disciplines and from school to work.
Recent Publications
Books
Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum, co-edited with Donna Reiss and Richard Selfe, National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, IL, 1998.
Bringing Writing to Reading: When Writing Teachers Teach Literature, co-edited with Toby Fulwiler, Boynton/Cook Heinemann, Portsmouth, NH, 1996.
Monograph
Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum, Prentice Hall Resources for Writing, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1999. Third Edition, republished May 29, 2002, by academic.writing http://aw.colostate.edu/books
Articles and Book Chapters
"Poetry Across the Curriculum: Four Disciplinary Perspectives,” with Patricia Connor-Greene, Jerry Waldvogel, and Catherine Paul in The Journal of Language and Learning Across the Disciplines, June, 2003.
“Writing Across and Against the Curriculum” in College Composition and Communication, Vol. 54, No. 3, February, 2003.
“The Poetics of Computers: Composing Relationships with Technology,” with Bernadette Longo, Donna Reiss, and Cynthia L. Selfe, in Computers and Composition, Vol. 20 (2003).
"Writing for Empathy," (with by Patricia Connor-Greene and Hayley Schilling), in The WAC Casebook, ed. Chris M. Anson (Oxford University Press, 2002).
"WAC Wired: Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum," (with Donna Reiss), in WAC for the New Millennium, edited by Susan H. McLeod, Eric Miraglia, Margot Soven, and Christopher Thaiss, Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2001.
"Discovery Reading: Conversations about Trifles" with Karen Schiff, in The Subject Is Reading, edited by Wendy Bishop, Portsmouth NH: Heinemann, 2000.
"Voice, Creativity, and the Critical Essay" in Teaching Writing Creatively, edited by David Starkey, Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Boynton/Cook Publishers, 1998.
"Surprising Myself as a Teacher in Houghton, America," in Teaching College English and English Education," edited by Thomas McCracken and Richard L. Larson, with Judith Entes, Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1998.
"Rethinking Genre in the First Year Composition Course: Helping Student Writers Get Things Done," with Carl R. Lovitt Profession 97, an annual publication of the Modern Language Association (December 1997).
"Mentoring, Modeling, Monitoring, Motivating: Response to Students' Ungraded Writing as Academic Conversation," in Writing to Learn: Strategies for Assigning and Responding to Writing Across the Disciplines, edited by Mary Deane Sorcinelli and Peter Elbow (San Francisco: Josey-Bass Publishers, 1997).
"The WAC Archives Revisited," with Toby Fulwiler, in Assessing Writing Across the Curriculum: Diverse Approaches and Practices, edited by Kathleen Blake Yancey and Brian Huot, Volume 1 in the series Perspectives on Writing: Theory, Research, Practice (Greenwich, CT: Ablex Publishing, 1997).