Joy S. Ritchie
202 Andrews Hall
Lincoln, NE 68588-0333
(402)472-1858 (office)
Degrees and institutions granting the degree
- Columbia University, B.S.
- Indiana University, M.A.T.
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Ph.D.
Professional areas of specialty
Composition and rhetorical theory; literacy studies, feminist theory and pedagogy, teacher research, and English education.
Courses regularly taught
English 4/882 Literacy and Community; English 4/875A Rhetorical Theory: The Rhetoric of Women Writers; English 354 Writing: the Uses of Literacy; English 215J 20th Century Women Writers
Personal Teaching Statement
My teaching and my scholarship have been enriched by collaborative, interdisciplinary inquiry with colleagues, graduate and undergraduate students. This has informed one of my central goals: to make the excitement and challenge of inquiry as much a part of my students' experience as it is of my own and to help students recognize the relationship between their academic learning and their lives as citizens. I seek to challenge students to be active, critical, and ethical participants in the rhetorical situations in which they participate. Working alongside my students, I continue to foster inquiry that I hope will lead to what Paulo Freire described as an "unquiet" pedagogy, one that is more investigative and less certain of certainties and thus, more critical.
Selected Publications
Rhetorica Teaching: Essays on the Expansive Uses of Women's Rhetoric(s) (with Kate Ronald). Heinemann/Boynton, forthcoming, 2006.
"Pedagogy and Public Engagement: The Uses of Women's Rhetorics," (with Kate Ronald). In Rhetorical Woman. eds. Hildy Miller and Lillian Bridwell Bowles. Univ. of Alabama Press, 2005.
Available Means: An Anthology of Women's Rhetoric(s), (with Kate Ronald). Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 2001.
Teacher Narrative as Critical Inquiry: Rewriting the Script. (with David E. Wilson). Teachers College Press, 2000.
