Department of English : University of Vermont

Department of English

Faculty - Nancy Welch

Nancy Welch, Professor

B.A. University of Massachusetts at Boston
M.A., Ph.D. University of Nebraska

Area of expertise

Composition and rhetoric including rhetoric of social movements, U.S. working-class rhetorical history, and women and rhetoric; fiction and nonfiction writing; and literacy studies [C.V.]

Contact Information

Email: Nancy Welch

Office: 439 Old Mill

Office Hours: Tues. 4:00-5:00, Thurs. 1:00-2:00 and by appointment

Publication: Living Room: Teaching Public Writing in a Privatized World, Getting Restless: Rethinking Revision in Writing Instruction, and The Road from Prosperity: Stories, The Dissertation and the Discipline: Reinventing Composition Studies,

Courses Taught: Topics in Composition and Rhetoric: U.S. Literacy Politics and Rhetoric and (the Rollback of) Women's Rights, Three Women Rhetors, Writing as Re-vision, Advanced Nonfiction Writing Workshop: Autobiography and/as Argument, Aphrodite's Daughters: Contemporary Women's Rhetorical Practices, "Only Connect": Creative Writing and Critical Inquiry, Competing Theories of Composing, Dream-Work and Discipline: Freud, Bakhtin, and the Teaching of Writing, Teaching Writing and Rhetoric