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Wendy Hesford, Associate Professor

Department of English: http://english.osu.edu/



General Background:
(Associate Professor) Ph.D., New York University: Rhetorical theory; composition theory, human rights literature and film; autobiography criticism; transnational feminist studies. Author of Framing Identities: Autobiography and the Politics of Pedagogy (University of Minnesota Press, 1999) winner of the 1999 W. Ross Winterowd Book Award; co-editor with Wendy Kozol of two collections Haunting Violations: Feminist Criticism and the Crisis of the "Real" (University of Illinois Press, 2001) and Just Advocacy? Women's Human Rights, Transnational Feminisms, and The Politics of Representation, (Rutgers University Press, 2005); and Rhetorical Visions: Reading and Writing in a Visual Culture, a textbook co-authored with Brenda Brueggemann (Prentice Hall, 2007).

Hesford's second single-authored book, Spectacular Rhetorics: Human Rights, Feminisms, and the Politics of Recognition is forthcoming from Duke University Press. Among her other current projects is a scholarly collection "Evidently Wrong: Human Rights Documentation as Cultural Text" (edited with Andrew Herscher).

She is the recepient of numerous awards and grants, including a NEH Summer Seminar fellowship, 2007 Visiting Scholar at Columbia University's Center for the Study of Human Rights, several OSU Seed Grants, OSU Research Enhancement Grants, FTAD Seed Grants, Coca-Cola Critical Difference for Women Grants, and the Modern Language Association's Florence Howe essay award. She has published essays in a range of journals, including PMLA, Biography, College English, JAC, and TDR: Journal of Performance Studies, among others. She is the currently on the Executive Committee of the MLA Division of the History of Rhetoric and Composition.

Human Rights Discourse
Rhetoric and Composition