Nancy Welch
Nancy Welch 
 Professor of English
439 Old Mill
(802) 656-4171
nancy.welch@uvm.edu
on sabbatical Fall 2008- Spring 2009
EDUCATION: B.A., University of Massachusetts at Boston; M.A., Ph.D., University of Nebraska

COURSES TAUGHT:

  • ENGS 005: First-Year Seminar. Recent topics include Three Women Rhetors and Writing as Re-vision.
  • ENGS 107: Topics in Composition and Rhetoric. Recent topics include U.S. Literacy Politics and Rhetoric and (the Rollback of) Women's Rights.
  • ENGS 117: Advanced Nonfiction Writing Workshop. Recent topics include Autobiography and/as Argument.
  • ENGS 212: Senior Seminar in Composition and Rhetoric. Recent topics include Aphrodite's Daughters: Contemporary Women's Rhetorical Practices and  "Only Connect": Creative Writing and Critical Inquiry.
  • ENGS 340: Graduate Seminar in Composition and Rhetoric. Recent topics include Competing Theories of Composing and Dream-Work and Discipline: Freud, Bakhtin, and the Teaching of Writing.
  • ENGS 345: Teaching Writing and Rhetoric (seminar for first-year graduate teaching assistants).
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Living Room
Living Room: Teaching Public Writing in a Privatized World (Boynton/Cook 2008)
 
The Road from Prosperity
The Road from Prosperity: Stories (Southern Methodist University Press, May 2005)


The Dissertation and the Discipline
The Dissertation and the Discipline: Reinventing Composition Studies (Boynton/Cook,
2002) co-edited with Sheila Carter-Tod, Kate Latterell, and Cindy Moore  


Getting Restless
Getting Restless: Rethinking Revision in Writing Instruction (Boynton/Cook, 1997)

plus articles in College Composition and Communication, College English, and JAC; short stories in Prairie Schooner, Threepenny Review, Greensboro Review, and elsewhere; essays in Genre by Example (Boynton/Cook, 2001), The Private, the Public, and the Published (Utah State 2004), Teaching Rhetorica (Boynton/Cook, 2007), and other volumes.

Health vs. WealthAlso a periodic contributor to Counterpunch, Socialist Worker and International Socialist Review.

PROGRAM CONNECTIONS: Women and Gender Studies, UVM United Academics-AFT/AAUP

COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: The King Street Youth Center: King Street Voices and Teen Futures @ King Street

PRIMARY FIELDS OF RESEARCH: 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

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