office: 84 McReynolds phone: 573-882-2242 email: stricklanddg@missouri.edu web:
web.missouri.edu/~stricklanddg/ office hours: Thursday 3:30-5:00
and by appointment
Research and teaching areas:
Critical/cultural studies in rhetoric and
composition; affective rhetorics; labor
issues in the university
Donna Strickland
Donna Strickland works at the intersection of composition studies, rhetorical theory, and cultural studies, and has published numerous articles and book chapters that examine the ideological leanings and managerial imperatives of composition as a field of study. Her work on managerial rhetorics and critical genealogies of composition studies has been published in College English, JAC, Composition Studies, Composition Forum, American Academic, and Works and Days. Most recently, her research has focused on affective rhetorics, tracing connections among cultural scripts that bind emotion, literacy, and labor. With Jeanne Gunner of Chapman University, she is editing a collection entitled Interrupting the (Writing) Program: Making Space for Critical Discourse.
Education PhD 1999, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Selected Publications
Strickland, Donna. "Feeling Literate: Gender, Race, and Work in Dorothy West's 'The Typewriter'." Women and Literacy: Inquiries for a New Century. Ed. Beth Daniell and Peter Mortensen. NCTE-LEA Research Series in Literacy and Composition. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2007.
Strickland, Donna. "Caring About the Dismal Science" JAC 27 (2007): 211-222.
Strickland, Donna. "The Managerial Unconscious of Composition Studies." Tenured Bosses, Disposable Teachers: Writing Instruction in the Managed University. Ed. Marc Bousquet, Tony Scott, and Leo Parascondola. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2004
Drew, Chris, and Matt Garrison, Steven Leek, Donna Strickland, Jen Talbot, and A. D. Waldron. "Affect, Labor, and the Graduate Teaching Assistant: Can Writing Programs Become 'Spaces of Hope'?" Works and Days Days 21 (2003; published 2004): 169–186.
Strickland, Donna. "Taking Dictation: The Emergence of Writing Programs and the Cultural Contradictions of Composition Teaching." College English 63 (2001): 457–479. www.ncte.org
Courses Taught
English 1000: Exposition and Argumentation
English 2180: Introduction to Women's Literature
English 4040/7040: Mindful Writing
English 4040/7040: Studies in Writing
English 8010: Theory and Practice of Composition
English 8040: Studies in Rhetoric and Composition
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