Bethany Mannon is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English, specializing in Rhetoric and Composition. She researches religion, gender, and public discourse in the contemporary United States, as well as writing pedagogy and writing center studies. Her articles have appeared in journals including Rhetoric Society Quarterly, College English, and Contemporary Women's Writing.
Recent GWS Publications
2020 “The Persuasive Power of Individual Stories: The Rhetoric in Narrative Archives.” Feminist Connections: Transversals in Rhetoric, Media, and Activism, edited by Katherine Fredlund, Kerri Hauman, and Jessica Ouellette (Alabama UP).
2019 “Xvangelical: The Rhetorical Work of Personal Narratives in Contemporary Religious Discourse.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly, vol. 49, no. 2, 2019, pp. 142-162
“Digital Selves: Personal Narrative Pedagogy in the Online Writing Course.” Currents in Teaching and Learning (forthcoming)
2018 “Hester Mulso Chapone and the Gendered Rhetoric of Experience.” Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition 21.1
2018 “Spectators, Sponsors, or World Travelers? Engaging with the Lives of Others through Digital Storytelling Projects.” College English 80.4
2018 “Self-Representation, Identity, and Bipolar Disorder in Kay Redfield Jamison’s An Unquiet Mind and Ellen Forney’s Marbles.” Journal of Medical Humanities
2017 “Kay Boyle, Janet Flanner, and the Public Voice in Women’s Memoirs.” Contemporary Women’s Writing, 11. 2
2016 “What do Graduate Students Want from the Writing Center? Tutoring Practices to Support Thesis and Dissertation Writers.” Praxis: A Writing Center Journal 13.2
2016 “A Mighty Clamor to Know”: Revelation and Rhetorical Self-Representation in Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner.” Mississippi Quarterly 69.1
Title: Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition
Department: Department of English
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