Katherine Fredlund

 

Education

Ph.D., Bowling Green State University, 2012
M.A., Saint Bonaventure University, 2008
B.A., Saint Bonaventure University, 2006

Academic Summary

Dr. Fredlund is a professor in the Department of English and the director of first-year writing. Her research focuses on women's rhetorical practices (particularly in the 19th century), feminist historiography, anti-racist Writing Program Administration, and the potentials and pitfalls of using GenAI to support writing instruction. 

Selected Publications

• Forthcoming: “Victimhood Rhetorics: How Stormfront Spread White Nationalism Online.” Rhetoric Review. Coauthored with Angela Morris.

• “Six Words Toward Knowing and Feeling.” Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, 11, 1, 2024.   

• "Twitter User's Display of Affect in the Global Warming Debate." Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, April 2021, pp. 1-23. Co-authored with Shanna Cameron, Alexandra Russell, Luke Brake, and Angela Morris. 

• "Collaborating Toward an Anti-Racist Curriculum." Writing Program Administration, 44, 3, 2021. Special Issue on Black Lives Matter and Anti-Racist Projects in Writing Program Administration, pp. 114-120. Co-authored with Angela Morris. 

• "A Feminist and Anti-Racist History of Composition and Rhetoric at Oberlin College (1846-1851)." College Composition and Communication, (February 2021).

• Co-editor with Kerri Hauman and Jessica Ouellette. Feminist Connections: Rhetoric and Activism Across Time, Space, and Place. University of Alabama Press, 2020.

• Editor, Writing Memphis, 1st, 2nd and 3rd ed., Hayden-McNeil, 2017, 2018, 2020.

• "Feminist Activism in the Core: Student Activism in Theory and Practice." Composing Feminist Interventions: Activism, Engagement, Praxis, eds. Kristine Blair and Lee Nickoson. WAC Clearinghouse. Expected Winter 2018.

• Writing Memphis. Co-edited with Vincent Kenny-Cincotta. Hayden-McNeil, 2017.

• "The Writing is on the Wall: Activist Rhetorics, Public Writing, and Responsible Pedagogy." Co-Authored with Scott Sundvall. Composition Forum. August 2017.

• "'Be Therefore Persuaded Ladies': Boston's Gleaning Circle (1805-13)." Rhetoric Review 36.1 (2017): 29-43.

• "Social Media and The Rhetorical Situation: Finding Common Ground Between Students' Lives and Writing Courses." Engaging 21st Century Writers with Social Media, edited by Kendra Bryant, IGI Global, 2016. pp. 96-115.

• "Feminist CHAT: Collaboration, Nineteenth-Century Women's Clubs, and Activity Theory." College English 78.5 (2016): 470-95.

• "Forget the Master's Tools, We Will Build Our Own House: The Woman's Era as a Rhetorical Forum for the Invention of the African American Woman." Peitho (Spring 2016): 67-98.

• "Antinarcissistic Rhetoric: Reinforcing Social Inequities through Gender Performance." Rhetoric Review 33.1 (2014): 21-37.

• "Cyberfeminists at Play: Lessons on Literacy and Activism from a Girls' Computer Camp." Feminist Teacher 22.1 (2011): 43-59. Co-authored with Kristine Blair; Kerri Hauman; Em Hurford; Stacy Kaster; and Alison Witte.