Janet Eldred

Department of English

1215 Patterson Office Tower

University of Kentucky

Lexington, KY  40506

859.323-2548

 

Professional Appointments

Professor, English, University of Kentucky, 2005-

Director, eStudio in Engineering, 2011-

Director, The Writing Initiative & Writing Center, University of Kentucky, 2003-2011

Coordinator, Creative Nonfiction & Editing, Univ. of Kentucky, 1999-2008

Associate Chair of English, Univ. of Kentucky, 2003-2005

Associate Professor, University of Kentucky, 1993-2005

Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky, 1987-1993

Assistant Professor, Berea College, 1991-1992 (on leave)

Director, Univ. of Kentucky Writing Program, 1995-1996, 1999-2003

 

Areas of Specialization

Essay/Creative Nonfiction

Gender & History of US Rhetoric

Editing & Publishing

Literacy Studies

Instructional Technology

Earlier work in Legal Studies & Narrative Theory

 

Education

Ph.D., English, 1988, University of Illinois

M.A., English, 1984, University of Illinois

B.A., English, 1982, California State University Fresno

 

Publications—Books 

Sentimental Attachments:  Essays, Creative Nonfiction, and Other Experiments in Composition.  Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 2005.

Imagining Rhetoric: Composing Women of the Early United States. (with Peter Mortensen). University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002. 

Accepted for Publication 

Literate Zeal: Gender, Editing, and the Making of a New Yorker Ethos (Forthcoming, University of Pittsburgh Press)

“Traveling Literacies.” (essay response)for Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s):  Affirming Difference.  Eds. Elizabeth Flynn, et. al.

 

Reprints

Schooling Fictions: Hannah Webster Foster's The Boarding School, from Imagining Rhetoric: Composing Women of the Early United States.” To appear in Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism (NCLC series).

Narratives of Socialization.  To appear in Short Story Criticism.

The Technology of Voice.  Published as Technology's Strange, Familiar Voices in Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st-century Technologies.  Eds. Gail E. Hawisher & Cynthia Selfe.  Utah State University Press, 1999

The Technology of Voice/Technology’sStrange, Familiar Voices.  Rpt. In Literacies and Technologies: A Reader for Contemporary Writers, 1/e, by Robert P. Yagelski, Longman Publishing, July 2000.

 

Publications—Articles & Pedagogical Essays

 

When Intangible Heritage Divides.  Proceedings of the Sharing Cultures Conference 2011 Conference.  Greenlines, 2011.

A New Critical Framework for Azorean-American Stories.  Proceedings of the Heritage 2010 Conference.  Greenlines, 2010.

Composition, or A Case for Experimental Critical Writing.  In Labor, Writing Technologies, and the Shaping of Composition in the Academy. Eds. Pamela Takayoshi and Patricia Sullivan.  Cresskill, NJ: Hampton P, 2007.

“A Few Patchwork Opinions”: Piecing Together Narratives of U.S. Girls’ Early National Schooling (with Peter Mortensen). In Girls and Literacy in the U.S.: A Historical Sourcebook, ed. Jane Greer (Part of ABC-CLIO reference series, Childhood and Youth: Studies in History and Culture). Santa Barbara & Denver: ABC-CLIO, 2003.  23-50.

Technology as Teacher: Augmenting (Transforming) Writing Instruction. (with Lisa Toner).  In Teaching Writing with Computers: An Introduction.  Eds. Pamela Takayoshi & Brian Huot.  New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.  33-54.  [Composition: An International Journal for Teachers of Writing, 2003 Distinguished Book Award]

"Persuasion Dwelt on Her Tongue": Women's Civic Rhetoric in Early America (with Peter Mortensen). College English 60.2 (1998): 173-88.

Law, Pluralism, and American Literature.  Focus on Law Studies: Teaching about Law in the Liberal Arts 9.1 (1996) 4-5.

Researching Electronic Networks (with Gail Hawisher). Written Communication 12.3 (1995): 330-59.

Computers and Language.  Encyclopedia of English Studies and Language Art. (National Council Teachers of English sponsored project.)  Ed. Alan C. Purves. Scholastic Leadership Policy Research, 1994. 690-1.

Monitoring Columbia's Daughters: Writing as Gendered Conduct (with Peter Mortensen). Rhetoric Society Quarterly 23.3-4 (1993): 46-69.

Teaching Law and American Literature. Focus on Law Studies: Teaching about Law in the Liberal Arts 9.1 (1993): 4-5.

Figuring Culture and Literacy in Cather's "Paul's Case." Journal of Narrative and Life History 3.2-3 (1993): 299-318.

Gender and Writing Instruction in Early America: Lessons from Didactic Fiction (with Peter Mortensen).  Rhetoric Review 12.1 (1993): 25-53.  Recognized as one of three outstanding essays in that volume.

Exploring the Implications of Metaphors for Computer Networks and Hypermedia (with Ron Fortune).  In Re-imagining Computers and Composition: Teaching and Research in the Virtual Age.  Eds. Gail E. Hawisher and Paul LeBlanc. Foreword by Edward P. J. Corbett.  Portsmouth, N.H.: Boynton/Cook, 1992. 58-73.

Reading Literacy Narratives (with Peter Mortensen). College English 54.5 (1992): 512-39.

Dissertations based on “Reading Literacy Narratives”

Linnea Marie Hasegawa, Articulating Identities: Rhetorical Readings of Asian American Literacy Narratives.  University of Maryland, English, 2004.

Caleb A. Corkery, Narrative and Personal Literacy.  University of Maryland, English, 2004.

Nancy Linh Karls, Pilgrims’ Progress: The Circulation of Literacy Narratives in Composition Studies.  University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, English, 2001.

Ronald Lawrence Pitcock, Regulating Illiterates: “Uncommon” Schooling at the Choctaw Academy, 1825-1848. University of Kentucky, English, 2001.

Morris Young, Literacy, Legitimacy, and the Composing of Asian-American Citizenship.  University of Michigan, English, 1997.  Published as Minor Re/Visions by Southern Illinois University Press, 2004.  Winner of the CCCC Outstanding Book Award.

Kirk Branch.  Telling Stories: Language and Lives in Adult Literacy Narratives.  University of Washington, English, 1997.  Published “From the Margins at the Center: Literacy, Authority, and the Great Divide,” CCC 50.2 (1998): 206-231.

Narratives of Socialization: Literacy in the Short Story. College English 53.6 (1991): 686-700.

Pedagogy in the Computer-Networked Classroom. Computers and Composition 8.2 (1991) 47-61.

Plot and Subplot in Women in Love:  Journal of Narrative Technique 20.3 (1990): 284-295.

Computers, Composition Pedagogy, and the Social View.  In Critical Perspectives on Computers and Composition Instruction.  Eds. Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe. New York: Columbia University Teacher's College Press, 1989. 201-18.

Faulkner's Still Life: Art and Abortion in The Wild Palms. The Faulkner Journal 4.1-2 (1988-1989): 139-158.

Publications—Essays  & Creative Nonfiction

The Siren Song of Intangible Heritage.  Proceedings of the Sharing Cultures Intangible Heritage Conference, Greenlines 2009.  

The Time of Lies. In Stepping on My Brother’s Head.  Eds. Charles Schuster & Sondra Perl.  Heinemann, 2010.  77-92.

 ‘Just What the Muscles Grope For’ Fourth Genre 4.2 (2002): 169-73.

Modern Fidelity Fourth Genre 3.2 (2001): 55-69.

Untitled [Daughters of the University] Comp Tales: An Introduction to College Composition Through Its Stories.  Eds. Richard H. Haswell and Min-Zahn Lu.  Addison-Wesley, 1999.

Children at All Costs. Literal Latte 4.5 (1998) [Roy T. Ames Memorial Essay Award (2nd), Judge: Phillip Lopate], 8-12.

The Technology of Voice.  College Composition & Communication 48.3 (1997): 334-47.

Technology's Strange, Familiar Voices (A different version of The Technology of Voice).  In Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st-century Technologies.  Eds. Gail E. Hawisher & Cynthia Selfe.  Utah State University Press, 1999;  Rpt. Literacies and Technologies: A Reader for Contemporary Writers, 1/e, by Robert P. Yagelski, Longman Publishing, July 2000.

The Art of Repression.  Willow Review 25 (1998): 82-6.

 

Publications—Reviews

“To Code or Not to Code, or, If I can’t Program a Computer, Why Am I Teaching Writing?”  College Composition and Communication 58.1 (2006): 119-125.

Revealing Secrets: Experiments in Academic Genres.  College English 66.6 (2004): 

Worldly Selves: The Generic Potential of Creative Nonfiction.  College English  66.1 (2003): 93-104.

[Review of Carol Mattingly’s Appropriate[ing] Dress: Women’s Rhetorical Style in Nineteenth-Century America.]  Prose Style 25.2 (2002): 130-32.

Looking Forward, Looking Back: Mapping Feminist Cybyerscapes.  Journal of Advanced Composition 20.4 (2000): 967-71.

Coming to Know a Century (with Peter Mortensen).  College English 62.6 (2000): 747-55.

Freelance Articles

Freelance writer for Courier Magazine, 2000-2001.

Teaching

Lower Division

Basic Writing (academic writing approach), First-year Writing (personal experience, modes, argument, academic writing, legal studies, mixed genre approaches), WAC (family studies), WAC (writing for engineers), Introduction to Speech;,Survey of American Literature, Introduction to Fiction

Upper Division

Creative Nonfiction, Freelancing Nonfiction, Literary Journalism, Writing about Law and Justice, Writing Literary Analysis, Women Writing, Editing, Style Workshop (including contemporary grammar and usage debates), Style (large lecture), Introduction to Literary Studies, Law and American Literature, Representations of Law in Fiction and Film, Southern Literature, Women's Literature; Text and Context

Graduate

Creative Nonfiction; Teaching Creative Nonfiction and the Essay; Editing; Language, Literacy, and Literature; Rhetorical and Narrative Theory; Technology and Composition (reading seminar); Composition for Teachers; The Essay (reading seminar)

 

Awards

Kentucky Foundation for Women, Writing Grant, 2000 [essay writing]

Kentucky Foundation for Women, Writing Grant, 1998 [essay writing]

Wesleyan Writers Conference, Scholarship, 1997

Finalist, Chancellor’s Award for Teaching, University of Kentucky, 1991

Finalist, Campus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, University of Illinois, 1986

School of Humanities Teaching Excellence Award, University of Illinois, 1986

English Department Teaching Excellence Award, University of Illinois, 1986

 

Invited Lectures and Talks

2007

Editorial Cuts:  What Women Could and Couldn’t Publish in The New Yorker.  University of Pittsburgh, Women’s Studies.

 

2005

Reading from “Sentimental Attachments” & Lecture on “Experimental Critical Writing.”  Composition/Rhetoric Forum, Miami University, April 2005.

“Writing in the Disciplines.”  Bedford/St. Martin’s Composition Symposium, East Lansing, May 2005.

 

2000

The Essay: Where Work and Living Meet? Featured speaker for the Thomas R. Watson Symposium on Rhetoric and Composition.  University of Louisville.

Seminar Leader, Domestic Relations Commissioners Seminar.  Legal and Opinion Writing.  Lake Cumberland State Resort Park.  Administrative Office of the Courts

1999

Women, Genius, and Original Composition.  Featured Speaker (with Peter Mortensen). The Second Biennial Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference. Minneapolis. [published as parts of Chapters 4 & 5 of Imagining Rhetoric]

1998

Seminar Leader, 1998 Kentucky Court of Appeals Staff Attorneys' Seminar. Legal and Opinion Writing. Lexington KY.  Administrative Office of the Courts

1997

Computers, Literacy, and the Civic Sphere. Respondent for the Thomas R. Watson Symposium on Literacy and Political Participation. University of Louisville.

Administrative Office of the Courts, Commonwealth of Kentucky, Circuit Judges Writing Program.  Lead Instructor, Shakertown KY.

Workshop Leader. 14th National Conference for Higher Education, Integrating Law and the Liberal Arts: A National Symposium for Curricular Development in Urban Community Colleges. (Sponsored by the American Bar Association Division for Public Education in cooperation with RC-2000 and the City Colleges of Chicago).  Chicago.

1996

American Language and Literature.  Presentation to class at Arkhangelsk Language Institute.  Arkhangelsk Russia

1995

Law, Literature, and American Pluralism. Consulting scholar and speaker for NEH-funded, American Bar Association-sponsored National Conversations Project. Chicago. [Published in Focus on Law Studies.]

1994

Using Legal Themes and Materials to Teach Literature and Composition. Invited Speaker, American Bar Association Panel, Community College Humanities Association. San Antonio.

Conference Presentations (1999-2009)

 

2011 

“When Intangible Heritage Divides.” Sharing Cultures 2011. Tomar, Portugal, July 2011.

 

2010 

“A New Critical Framework for Azorean-American Stories.” Heritage 2010. Évora, Portugal, June 2010.

 

“Immigration, Remigration, and M`igration.”  [Read by Patrick Berry.]  Rhetoric Society of America..  Minneapolis.  May 2010.

 

2009

“The Siren Song of Intangible Heritage.”  Sharing Cultures 2009.  Madalena, Pico, Azores, May 2009.

“Resisting Collaboration, Revising Collaboration.” Conference on College Composition and Communication.  San Francisco.  March 2009.

2008

“Literacy Narratives and the Hidden Internal Polemic of Repatriation.”  Rhetoric Society of America.  Seattle.  May 2008.

2007

Heritage 101, or Diasporic Orphans.  Second Annual Conference on Adoption and Culture, University of Pittsburgh. October.

Fashioning the Career Citizen.  Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference.  Little Rock, October.

Gender, Rhetoric, and Speculative Editing:  Some Cases from the New Yorker.”  Conference on College Composition and Communication. New York, 2007.

 

2006

Ethos, Literacy, & Editorial Memoirs, or Why The New Yorker and Ladies Home Journal Aren’t So Far Apart.  Rhetoric Society of America, Memphis.

Combining Graduate and Undergraduate Students in Creative Nonfiction Courses. Creative Nonfiction SIG, Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), Chicago.

2005

Surplus Literacy:  Women, Editing, and Early Twentieth-Century Class Publications.  Fifth Biennial International Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Michigan Technological University.

The Early 20th-century New Yorker:  A Woman’s Magazine?  Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), San Francisco.

2004

Between Rhetorical Curricula and the Rhetoric of Reminiscence: Digital Problems and Possibilities for the Study of Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women (with Peter Mortensen). Rhetoric Society of America Biennial Conference, Austin.

The Social Potential of Composing Selves. Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), San Antonio.

2003

Participant. Memoir Workshop.  Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. Marcie Hershmann.

Nineteenth-Century Women Remember the Teaching of Writing. Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), New York

2002

Writing Program Work: Sponsoring, Editing, Authoring.  The Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. University of Louisville.

Remembering the Rhetoric of Civic Engagement in Early America: Women’s Diaries, Letters, Memoirs” (read by Peter Mortensen). Rhetoric Society of America Biennial Conference, Las Vegas.

Roundtable on Advances in the Study of Women’s Literacies: New Directions for Current Research.  Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), Chicago.

2001

Panel on creative nonfiction and small-presses in first-year composition program (with Peter Mortensen, Anne Gere, Brenda Brueggemann).  Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), Denver.

2000

Using Memoir to Teach the Art and Profession of Editing, Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), Minneapolis.

1999

"Had I But Their Entire Sympathy": Emotion and Its Rhetorical Limits in Charlotte Forten's Normal School Journals (with Peter Mortensen), Modern Language Association (MLA). Chicago.  [Published as part of conclusion to Imagining Rhetoric]

Women, Genius, and Original Composition.  Featured Speaker (with Peter Mortensen). The Second Biennial Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference. Minneapolis. [Published as parts of Chapters 4 & 5 of Imagining Rhetoric]

Independent Studies: Composing a Novel Rhetoric for Early Nineteenth-Century Women (Co-authored and presented by Peter Mortensen), Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. University Park. [Published as part of Chapter 4 of Imagining Rhetoric.] 

 

Additional Professional Activities

Judge The Norman Mailer Awards for High School and College Writing (creative nonfiction)

Refereed articles for College English, Computers and Composition, Written Communication, JAC, College Composition and Communication

Editorial Board for CCCC book series Studies in Writing & Rhetoric (SWR)

 

Editorial Board for Computers and Composition

KY Judge for NCTE Achievement Awards in Writing, 2000-2002

Reader for E.T.S. (Advanced Placement, SAT, & GMAT, various years)

Created, supervised, and taught courses at UK that integrate computers into the curriculum

Created, supervised, and taught the First-Year Writing Program’s Literary Lecture series, a program that integrates small-press publications and their authors in to a literature-intensive composition curriculum

Taught Opinion Writing to Circuit Court Judges & Court of Appeals Staff Attorneys for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Administrative Office of the Courts

Editorial Board for FOCUS (Journal of the American Bar Association Commission on College and University Legal Studies), 1993-1995

Faculty Advisor for University of Kentucky Pre-Law-Club, 1994

Selected University of Kentucky Committees & Projects:  University Senate, Senate Academic Programs Committee; Dean of Students Ad Hoc Committee on Campus-Wide Writing; A&S Executive Committee; A&S Ad Hoc Committee on undergraduate studies; A&S Dean’s Search Committee; Writing Program Committee; GWS Steering Committee; English Department Executive Committee; English Department Undergraduate Committee; English Department Ad Hoc Committee on Teaching Assistants; A&S Undergraduate Scholarship Committee; Campus-Wide Instructional Technology; Women Writers Conference.