This collection contains scholarly articles, reports and other publications authored by faculty members in the Department of English at Minnesota State University, Mankato.
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Submissions from 2022
Podcasting for Social Justice: An Interview Series, Abigail Bakke
Beyond "Fake News": Teaching a Nuanced Understanding of Post-Truth Rhetoric Via Tutorials, Abigail Bakke and Jennifer M. Turner
Submissions from 2021
Transformations: Change Work Across Writing Programs, Pedagogies, and Practices, Holly Hassel and Kirsti Cole
The Transformation of Victorian Monsters: Wilkie Collins' Heart and Science and Gail Carriger's Neo-Victorian 'Parasol Protectorate' Series, Melissa Purdue
Submissions from 2020
Everyday Googling: Results of an Observational Study and Applications for Teaching Algorithmic Literacy, Abigail Bakke
The Activist Syllabus as Technical Communication and the Technical Communicator as Curator of Public Intellectualism, Kristin Marie Bivens, Kirsti Cole, and Leah Heilig
Activism by Accuracy: Women's Health and Hormonal Birth Control, Kristin Marie Bivens, Kirsti Cole, and Amy Koerber
'His Eyes Commanded Me to Come to Him': Desire and Mesmerism in Rhoda Broughton's 'The Man with the Nose', Melissa Purdue
Submissions from 2019
Trust-Building in a Patient Forum: The Interplay of Professional and Personal Expertise, Abigail Bakke
Writing for Patients on the Participatory Web: Heuristics for Purpose-Driven Personas, Abigail Bakke
No Body is Disinterested: The Discursive Materiality of Composition in the University, Kirsti Cole
Academic Labor Beyond the College Classroom: Working for Our Values, Holly Hassel and Kirsti Cole
Evil is Part of the Territory: Inventing the Stepmother in Self-Help Books, Valerie R. Renegar and Kirsti Cole
Submissions from 2018
Credibility Strategies of Popular Health Websites: A Rhetorical Analysis of Parkinson's Information Pages, Abigail Bakke
The Grotesque Protest in Social Media as Embodied, Political Rhetoric, Kristin Marie Bivens and Kirsti Cole
Transgressing the Digital Terrain: Humor in Feminist Responses to Trolling, Kirsti Cole
Feminist Comedy's Blond Badass: Amy Schumer and the Limits of White Feminism, Valerie R. Renegar, Lacy Lowrey, and Kirsti Cole
Submissions from 2017
Ethos in E-Health: From Informational to Interactive Websites, Abigail Bakke
Surviving Sexism in Academia: Strategies for Feminist Leadership, Kirsti Cole and Holly Hassel
Remodeling Shared Governance: Feminist Decision Making and Resistance in Academic Neoliberalism, Kirsti Cole, Holly Hassel, and Eileen E. Schell
Hush...The Dangers of Silence in the Academic Library, Jessica Schomberg and Kirsti Cole
Submissions from 2016
Toward Audience Involvement: Extending Audiences of Written Physician Notes in a Hospital Setting, Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch, Abigail Bakke, Kimberly Thomas-Pollei, Elizabeth Mackey, and Craig Weinert
The Wicked Stepmother Online: Maternal Identity and Personal Narrative in Social Media, Kirsti Cole and Valerie R. Renegar
Clemence Housman’s The Were-Wolf: A Cautionary Tale for the Progressive New Woman, Melissa Purdue
Submissions from 2015
"It's Like She's Eager to be Verbally Abused": Twitter, Trolls, and (En)gendering Disciplinary Rhetoric, Kirsti Cole
Submissions from 2014
Feminist Challenges or Feminist Rhetorics?: Locations, Scholarship, Discourse, Kirsti Cole
'That's what children are-nought but leg-ropes': Motherhood in Rosa Praed's Mrs. Tregaskiss, Melissa Purdue
Submissions from 2013
Written Communication in the Classroom: Resources for Teaching Methods (2013), Abigail Bakke and Kira Dreher
Sisyphus Rolls On: Reframing Women's Ways of "Making It" in Rhetoric and Composition, Kristin Marie Bivens, Martha McKay Canter, Kirsti Cole, Violet A. Dutcher, Morgan Gresham, Luisa Rodriguez-Connal, and Eileen E. Schell
'She had suffered so many humiliations for want of money’: The Quest for Financial Independence in Sarah Grand’s The Beth Book, Melissa Purdue
Books from 2011
Fugitive Anne: A Romance of the Unexplored Bush, Mrs. Campbell Praed and Melissa Purdue
'I have expiated my sins to you at last': Motherhood in Victoria Cross’s Colonial Fiction, Melissa Purdue
Books from 2009
New Women Writers, Authority and the Body, Melissa Purdue and Stacey Floyd
Submissions from 2007
Feminist Social Projects: Building Bridges between Communities and Universities, Patricia Webb, Kirsti Cole, and Thomas Skeen
Submissions from 2005
The Rise of the Cat-Woman: Film Adaptations of H.G. Well’s The Island of Dr. Moreau, Melissa Purdue
