Sue Carter Wood, Associate Professor

carters@bgsu.edu

401 East Hall
419-372-8107

Degrees and Institutions:

Ph.D., English with Rhetoric Specialization, University of Texas at Austin
B.A., English, Mississippi College

Courses Taught:

History of Rhetoric
US Composition History
19th Century Women's Rhetorics
Women’s Rhetorical Practices
Teaching Grammar in the Context of Writing
Grammar and Writing
Backgrounds & Theory of Teaching Writing
Intermediate Writing

Area: Rhetoric & Writing

Research Interests: The history of writing instruction in US colleges; women’s rhetorics and rhetorical practices; the history of rhetoric

Recent Publications:

"The Needle as the Pen: Intentionality, Needlework, and the Production of Alternate Discourses of Power." Co-authored with Heather Pristash and Inez Schaechterle. Women and Things: The Material Culture of Needlework and Textiles, 1650-1950. Ed Maureen Daly Goggin and Beth Tobin. Ashgate, 2009.

"What about Sex? Reconsidering Histories of 19th Century Women's Public Reform Discourse." Co-authored with Inez Schaechterle. Sizing Up Rhetoric. Ed. David Zarefsky. Waveland Press, 2008.

"Using the Needle as a Sword: Epideictic Rhetoric in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union." Rhetorical Agendas: Social, Political, Spiritual. Ed. Patricia Bizzell. Mahwah, N.J: Erlbaum, 2006.

Work in Progress:

             The rhetorical practices of African-American women of the Jim Crow era, particularly               Hallie Quinn Brown and Ida B. Wells.