Nels P. Highberg, PhD |
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Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Rhetoric and Professional Writing |
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University of Hartford |
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Recent Publications"Laurie Simmons' Role Plays: Love, Sex,
Desire" (interview) for spot (Fall 2012): 12-7 "More than a Comic Sidekick: Fat Men in Gay
Porn" for Performing
Ethos (2.2 [Fall 2012]:
109-20) "'Beware! This is a Man!'" for Feminist Teacher (20:2 [2010]: 157-70) "The (Missing) Faces of African-American Girls with AIDS" for Feminist Formations (22:1 [Spring 2010]: 1-20) "When Heroes Fall: I Am My Own Wife and the Challenge to Truth" for Get Real: Documentary Theatre Past and Present, edited by Alison Forsyth and Chris Megson (Palgrave Macmillian; Hampshire, England, 2009: 167-78) Teaching and Research InterestsTheories and Rhetorics of Gender and Sexuality Memoir and Creative Nonfiction Film, New Media, and Visual Rhetorics Medical Humanities and Trauma Studies BackgroundPhD in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2003 MA in Comparative Studies from the Ohio State University in 1998 MA in Women's Studies from the Ohio State University in 1995 BA in English from the University of Houston with a minor in Women's Studies and membership in the University Honors College in 1993 Previous Employment as a Senior Lecturer in Ohio State's Writing Workshop and as a Writing Consultant, Writing-across-the-Curriculum Consultant, Outreach Consultant, and Outreach Team Coordinator in Ohio State's Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing Curriculum Vitae (PDF) "Yes, Clarissa thinks, it's time for the day to be over. We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our gifts and our unstinting efforts, our most extravagant hopes. We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep--it's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out of windows or drown themselves or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us, the vast majority, are slowly devoured by some disease, or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself. There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined, though everyone but children (and perhpas even they) knows these hours will inevitably be followed by others, far darker and more difficult. Still, we cherish the city, the morning; we hope, more than anything, for more." --Michael Cunningham, The Hours |
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HON 182: Rhetoric and Writing I | 3:30-4:45 TR
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