Georgia Rhoades was Director of Composition in the English Department at ASU for ten years. Her doctorate in Rhetoric and Composition is from the University of Louisville, and her research interests include issues of non-tenure track working conditions and professional development, embodied rhetoric, and Irish Women's Literature. She is a founding member of Black Sheep Theatre and has performed her plays in Ireland, Northern Ireland, England, and the U.S.
Website: https://wac.appstate.edu/node/272
Recent GWS scholarship
Publications:
“In Support of Contingent Faculty: Lessons from an Ongoing Struggle for Writing Program Independence,” [with Beth Carroll and Kim Gunter] in Minefield of Dreams: The Promise and Peril of Independent Writing Programs, ed. Justin Everett and Cristina Hanganu-Bresch, WAC Clearinghouse, 2016 Available at https://wac.colostate.edu/books/minefield/
“The Evolution of Best Practice: Teaching Genre and Analysis Across the Curriculum,” (with Lynn Moss Sanders) Currents, Mar 2016, Vol 8.1, 40-45
Forthcoming: "Faculty Development Across the Curriculum," Digital Commons
Presentations:
“From Theory into the Classroom” (with Sherry Alusow Hart, Dennis J. Bohr, Brendan Hawkins, Julie Karaus, Amanda Finn, and Katelyn Stark), Georgia Southern Success in Student Writing Conference, Savannah, March 2016
Commissions:
Commission from The Playhouse, Derry Northern Ireland, to write a play about Margaret Cousins for production 2020
Presentations:
ASU Global Symposium, Nov 2019
"The Cook and the Medium"
Performance:
"Waterwoman," Great Writing Conference, London Imperial College, July 2019
"The Sheela-na-gig," Great Writing Conference, London Imperial College, June 2018
