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Kathleen
E. Welch
Email Dr. Welch at kwelch@ou.edu
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| Professor Welch, Samuel
Roberts Noble Family Foundation Presidential Professor of English, is
the author of Electric Rhetoric: Classical Rhetoric, Oralism, and a
New Literacy (MIT Press, 1999) and The Contemporary Reception
of Classical Rhetoric: Appropriations of Ancient Discourse (Erlbaum,
1990). Her articles on classical rhetoric and contemporary rhetoric and
composition theory, technology and literacy, and women's writing have
appeared in Written Communication (1988), Journal of
Advanced Composition (1988), Browning Institute Studies (1988),
College Composition and Communication (1987),
Rhetoric Society Quarterly (1987, 1986), Rhetoric Review
(1987), and in many collections of essays, including Writing
Histories of Rhetoric (ed. V. Vitanza), Learning from the
Histories of Rhetoric (ed. T. Enos) and A Short History of
Writing Instruction (ed. J. Murphy). She is completing a book on
Gender, Technology and Rhetoric/Composition Studies. Professor Welch
teaches writing and literacy at the undergraduate level, including
freshman writing; and classical rhetorical theory, twentieth-century
rhetoric and composition theory, current technology and literacy
studies, feminist theory, and historicized rhetoric at the graduate
level. Her teaching "centers on privileging the production of student
writing and then working through histories and theories of discourse
that enable students to write more powerfully in an expanded
repertoire." Professor Welch serves on nine national and international
editorial and advisory boards, including the Coalition of Women
Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition (she was the
founding President from 1990-1995); the Rhetoric Society of America
(she was Preisdent from 1995 to 1997 and served ten years on that
Board); the Executive Council of the International Society for the
History of Rhetoric (1997-2001); the Advisory Board of Publications of
the Modern Language Association (1996-1999); the Association of
Teachers of Advanced Composition (she was President from 1989-1991);
Advances in the Study of Rhetoric (1997-2001); The Encyclopedia of
Rhetoric (1992-1996); and the Board of Visitors, Ohio State University,
Department of English (2000-2002). She has been a visiting professor at
the University of Colorado; the University of Utah; Texas Christian
University; a Visiting Scholar at M.I.T.; and a Distinguished Visiting
Professor at Ohio State University. See
http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/~/KathleenE.Welch. She has taught 17
undergraduate courses at OU (8 new ones), 7 graduate courses (6 new
ones), has supervised and is directing 12 M.A. thesis and PhD students;
and has served on 31 thesis and dissertation committees. She has
presented over 65 papers at international and national conferences (22
of them invited for plenary sessions). She is a member of nine
professional organizations, including the National Council of Teachers
of English (www.ncte.org), the
National Communication Association (www/natcomm.org), and the Society
for Critical Exchange. Her university department service can be found
on her website of particular interest would be her technology service.
She referees for nineteen scholarly presses and journals. |
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