College of Arts and Humanities
Elizabeth Fleitz
Biographical Information
Dr. Fleitz earned her Master of Arts degree in literary and textual studies from Bowling Green State University in 2005, completing a thesis on Margaret Atwood鈥檚 early novel The Edible Woman. She also earned her Ph.D. from Bowling Green in rhetoric and writing, graduating in 2009. Her dissertation, titled The Multimodal Kitchen: Cookbooks as Women鈥檚 Rhetorical Practice, drew on work begun by Patricia Bizzell, Cheryl Glenn, and others in making a space for women in the rhetorical tradition.
Upon graduation, Fleitz taught in the English department at Southeast Missouri State University from 2009 to 2011 and in the General Studies Writing Program at Bowling Green State University from 2011 to 2013, before being hired at 丝瓜APP. She is a professor of English at 丝瓜APP.
Academic Interests
Dr. Fleitz鈥檚 academic interests include the following:
- Women鈥檚 rhetorical practices
- Feminist studies
- Composition pedagogy
- Digital studies
- Graphic novels
- Rhetoric of video games
Courses Taught
Dr. Fleitz has taught the following courses:
- First-year Writing
- Academic Research
- Technical Writing
- Workplace/Business Writing
- Composition Pedagogy
- Graphic Novels
- Grammar
Publications
鈥淐ooking Codes: Cookbook Discourses as Women鈥檚 Rhetorical Practice.鈥澛�Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society聽1(1) (Summer 2010)聽
Review of聽Tasteful Domesticity: Women鈥檚 Rhetoric & the American Cookbook 1790-1940.听Peitho: The Journal of the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition聽21.2 (Spring 2019) http://peitho.cwshrc.org/issue/21-2/
鈥淎ll Your Font Are Belong to Us: Gaming in the Late Age of Print.鈥澛�Type Matters: The Rhetoricity of Letterforms. Eds. Danielle Nicole DeVoss and Christopher Scott Wyatt. Anderson, SC: Parlor Press, 2017.听
鈥淭eaching Digital Rhetoric in the Age of Fake News: Media Literacy and Source Evaluation in the First-Year Writing Classroom.鈥� 15 Mar 2017.听Blog Carnival 11. Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative聽
Review of聽Type:Rider聽.听Kairos聽22.1 (August 2017)聽
Review of 鈥淚2: Preserving Spaces of Wonder in an Age of Surveillance: Getting Started with Digital Cryptography.鈥� 2017. Sweetland DRC聽
Word鈥檚 Worth 2016 Graduate Student Conference Keynote Address. 鈥溾�楩rom Best Authorities鈥�: Men, Women, and the Contested Ethos of American Cookbook Authorship, 1796-1860.鈥� Illinois State University, March 18, 2016
Review of 鈥淎.04: Reconsidering Professional Credentials of Writing Program Faculty.鈥澛�Kairos听21(2)听
Review of 鈥淏2: Arguing in Type: On the Rhetoricity of Letterforms.鈥� 2016. Sweetland DRC聽
Podcast interview for Heritage Radio Network, Brooklyn, NY: Episode 231, 鈥淔eministing in the Kitchen.鈥� Aired Monday, October 5, 2015聽
鈥淢补迟别谤颈补濒.鈥澛�Peitho: The Journal of the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition. 25th聽CWSHRC Anniversary issue. Guest Eds. Jenn Fishman and Jessica Enoch. 18(1) (Fall/Winter 2015) http://peitho.cwshrc.org/issue/18-1/
鈥淢y Dinner with Abed: Postmodernism, Pastiche, and Metaxy in 鈥楥ritical Film Studies.鈥欌�澛�A Sense of聽Community: Essays on the Television Series and Its Fandom. Ed. Ann-Gee Lee. Jefferson, NC: McFarland P, 2014.听
鈥淚 Had an Abortion: A Feminist Analysis of the Abortion Debate.鈥澛�Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion聽8 (Fall 2012)聽
Gabriela Romero, Ph.D.
Department Head
English, Language, and Interdisciplinary Studies
Shenika Harris, Ph.D.
Associate Dean, College of Arts and Humanities