Department of English
Risa Applegarth
Contact Information
E-mail: risa_applegarth@uncg.edu
Office: MHRA 3108
Office Phone: 336-334-3967
At UNCG Since: 2009
Education
Ph.D. University of North Carolina-2009
M.A. University of North Carolina-2005
B.A. Carleton College-2003
Research Interests
Dr. Applegarth’s interests include rhetorical history and theory, especially genre theory, women’s rhetorics, and rhetorics of science. Dr. Applegarth’s dissertation examines relationships between genre, discipline formation, and the creation of knowledge, using the development of American anthropology as its case. This project, currently being revised into a book manuscript, contributes to feminist histories of science by recovering the work of many early twentieth-century women anthropologists whose alternative forms of knowledge-making were marginalized as the discipline of anthropology professionalized. Additional research and teaching interests include writing pedagogy, Writing Across the Curriculum, and nonfiction genres such as memoir and nature writing.
Selected Publications
- “Field Guides: Women Writing Popular Anthropology.” Women and Rhetoric Between the Wars. Ed. Ann George, Elizabeth Weiser, and Janet Zepernick. Forthcoming.
- “Genre, Location, and Mary Austin’s Ethos,” under review.
- “Domestic Space and Indian Education in Two Generations of Indian Reform,” in progress.
- Other Grounds: Popular Genres and the Rhetoric of Anthropology, 1900-1940, in progress.
Awards and Honors
- Dissertation Fellowship, UNC, 2008.
- Thomas S. and Caroline H. Royster, Jr. Fellowship, UNC, 2003-08.
- Ruth Rose Richardson Award, UNC, 2004.
- Scott Tyler Bergner Prize, Carleton College, 2003.
- Phi Beta Kappa, Carleton College, 2003.