Jessica Enoch

Assistant Professor of English

CL 628-F

Jessica Enoch’s teaching and research focus on rhetorical education, feminist rhetorics and pedagogies, histories of rhetoric and composition, as well as literacy studies.

Her book, Refiguring Rhetorical Education: Women Teaching African American, Native American, and Chicano/a Students, revisits the seemingly innocuous figure of the nineteenth-century female teacher to investigate the radical iterations of rhetorical education that Lydia Maria Child, Zitkala Ša, Jovita Idar, Marta Peña, and Leonor Villegas de Magnón produced (Southern Illinois UP, 2008). She has also published work on Kenneth Burke (College Composition and Communication, 2004); Chicana rhetorics and feminist research methods (College English, 2004 and Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 2005); and rhetorics of gendered space (College English, 2008).

Graduate Courses:

Rhetorical Education
Feminist Rhetorics and Pedagogies
Composition Theory in the Twenty-First Century

Undergraduate Courses:

Seminar in Composition: Women’s Studies
Uses of Literacy
Writing for the Public

Departmental, University, and National Service:

Member, Composition Curriculum Committee
Member, Graduate Faculty
Member, Graduate Admissions Committee
Member, Graduate Placement Committee
Faculty Sponsor, Public and Professional Writing Program
Member, Leadership Certificate Steering Committee
Member, Women’s Studies, Steering Committee
Member, Modern Language Association Executive Committee of the Division on History and Theory of Rhetoric and Composition Chair, Conference on College Composition and Communication James Berlin Memorial Outstanding
Dissertation Committee
Member, Conference on College Composition and communication Resolutions Committee
Member, Conference on College Composition and communication Nominating Committee
Reviewer, College Composition and Communication, College English, Composition Forum