Peter Mortensen

Associate Professor and
Associate Provost Fellow

Office: 215 English
Office Phone: 333-7157

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Courses

ENGLISH 582: TOPICS IN RESEARCH AND WRITING
TOPIC: Historiography in Writing Studies

ENGLISH 593: PROFESSIONAL SEMINAR IN THE
TEACHING OF COLLEGE ENGLISH
TOPIC: The Teaching of Rhetoric

ENGLISH 493: PROFESSIONAL SEMINAR IN THE
TEACHING OF COLLEGE ENGLISH
TOPIC: The Teaching of Rhetoric

BTW 390 P: STUDIES IN PROFESSIONAL WRITING: SPECIAL TOPICS
TOPIC: Technologies of Literacy

ENGLISH 406: WRITING STUDIES, II: WRITING PROCESSES AND THEIR DEVELOPMENT

Areas of Interest:

History of literacy and rhetoric in the United States; literacy and illiteracy as public policy issues; qualitative research methods and ethics in writing studies; the material conditions of writing instruction.

Publications:

Imagining Rhetoric: Composing Women of the Early United States (with Janet Carey Eldred). Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002.

Ethics and Representation in Qualitative Studies of Literacy (edited with Gesa E. Kirsch). Urbana: NCTE, 1996.

Recent articles on: women's literacy and rhetorical training in the early U.S. (with Janet Carey Eldred); representations of literacy and illiteracy in the rural U.S.; the material conditions of textbook publishing; and research ethics in writing studies.

Work in Progress:

Illiterate Sorrows: The Uses of Illiteracy in Industrial America. A study of representations of illiteracy in turn-of-the-century literary, popular, academic, and bureaucratic discourse.