Virginia Chappell
Associate Professor
My abiding academic interests, in both teaching and scholarship, are the rhetoric My primary teaching assignments are in the Writing-Intensive English major: Advanced Composition, Writing for the Professions, and Writing for Nonprofit Organizations (a special topics course offered every other year)plus, I always enjoy teaching either of the first-year writing courses (I directed the program from 1997-2002). Recently, what started as an avocation has become a passionIntroduction to Literature: Drama. Publications include Reading Rhetorically (Longman, 2nd edition in press), co-authored with John Bean and Alice Gillam, and articles on peer tutoring, student response to Farewell to Manzanar, expert testimony in a death penalty trial, and a collection edited with Chris Anderson and Mary Louise Buley-Meissner in honor of William F. Irmscher, my dissertation director at the University of Washington: Balancing Acts: Essays on the Teaching of Writing (Southern Illinois UP, 1991). | |
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