College of Humanities People

Elizabeth Weiser, Associate Professor

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

Office Information
244Warner Reese Center, 1209 University Drive, Newark, OH, 43055
Email: weiser.23@osu.edu
Phone: 740-366-9175

Office Hours:
AU 2009 11:00-11:30 & 2:30-3:00 MWF 244 Warner Center

Personal URL(s):
and: http://newark.osu.edu/facultystaff/personal/eweiser

General Background:
Elizabeth Weiser, Associate Professor (PhD, English/Rhetoric & Composition, Texas Christian University; MFA, Creative Writing, Texas State University; MA, International Education, American University). Author of Burke, War, Words: Rhetoricizing Dramatism, University of South Carolina Press (2008); articles and chapters on identification in the Smithsonian museums, Burke’s response to war, Burke's dialectical stance, Burke and Rene Wellek and Allen Tate, the dialogic personal narrative, the history of style, and Dorothy Day's personalized narratives are published or in press. Co-editor and contributor to Engaging Audience: Writing in an Age of New Literacies, NCTE Press (2009) with Brian Fehler and Angela González; and Women and Rhetoric between the Wars, with Ann George and Janet Zepernick (under consideration). Happenings Editor for the KB Journal, president of the TCU Rhetoric/Composition Alumni Society, faculty advisor for Ohio State-Newark's Taproot. Recipient of the Kenneth Burke Society's Emerging Scholar Award (2008), Rhetoric Review's runner-up article of the year (2007), Ohio State-Newark’s Service Award (2005). Fulbright Fellowship to Ankara, Turkey (1999-2000); Texas Christian University Radford Fellowship (2001); Ohio State-Newark Research and Scholarly Activities Grants (2007, 2009). Current teaching includes courses in rhetorical theory, research methods, argument, textual analysis, publishing, and writing style. Current research looks at national identity formation/rhetorical identification in national and alternative museums around the world.

Rhetoric and Composition