M. A. English University of Massachusetts Boston, 1986

20 Willowbrook Drive Department of English, Clemens 306

Williamsville NY 14221 State University of New York, Buffalo

(716) 632-5969 home Buffalo NY 14260-4610

(716) 904-7419 (cell) (716) 645-0677 work
EDUCATION

Ph.D. Communication and Rhetoric

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1990.

M.A. English

University of Massachusetts Boston, 1986.

B.S. Nursing

Boston University, 1976.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

University at Buffalo

Professor 2014-

Associate Professor 1999-2014

Founding Director Center for Excellence in Writing 2012-2015

Affiliated Faculty Asian Studies, American Studies,

and Global Gender Studies

UB/Singapore Institute of Management Cooperative Education

Program, Visiting professor 2004-2005

Temple University

Assistant Professor 1992-1998

Associate Professor 1998-1999

University of Illinois at Chicago

Assistant Professor 1990-1992

PUBLICATION AWARDS

University of Kansas, June 3-7, 2013, $2000. With Luming Mao.

in Rome, June 25-July 27, 2012. $3900.

Committee.

$2000. With Lester C. Olson.

Georgia State University, Atlanta, 2007.

Rome,” University of California Berkeley, 2003.

China,” East-West Center, 2001.

“Writing an Empire: Comparative Rhetoric and the Imperial State.” Book project. 200 pages. Prospectus available.

State College: Penn State UP, 2013. Rhetoric Society of America Book Award 2014.

Co-edited with Lester C. Olson.

Originally published as Special Issue on Human Rights Rhetoric: Traditions of Testifying and

Witnessing. Rhetoric Society Quarterly 41.3 (2011).
Intentions: Negotiated, Contested, and Ignored. Series in Literature and Philosophy. State College:

Penn State UP, 1998. Ross Winterowd Book Award, 1999.

“The Common Core and Argumentation: Embracing Confucian Remonstration.” Confucianism

SUNY UP, contract.

Protests.” Ancient Rhetorics + Digital Networks. Ed. Michele Kennerly and Damien Smith

Pfister. Alabama, contract.
“Rhetoric and Comparison: Two Tricky Words.” Manifesting a Future for Comparative Rhetoric.

Rhetoric Review 34.3 (2015): 241-44.
“Recognizing Children When All Recognition is Misrecognition.” Special Issue on Children’s

Rights. JAC: A Journal of Rhetoric, Culture, and Politics. 34.3-4 (2014): 507-515.
“Traditions of Testifying and Witnessing.” Human Rights Rhetoric: Traditions of Testifying and

Witnessing. Philadelphia: Routledge, 2012. 1-10. With Lester Olson. Originally published in

Special Issue on Human Rights Rhetoric: Traditions of Witnessing and Testifying. Rhetoric Society

Quarterly 41.3 (2011): 203-212.
“Writing An Empire: Cross-Talk on Authority, Act, and Relationships with the Other in the Analects,

Daodejing,, and HanFeizi.” Studying Chinese Rhetoric in the Twenty-First Century. Ed. LuMing

Mao. Special Issue of College English 72.4 (2010): 350-366.

“You Fail”: Plagiarism, the Ownership of Writing, and Transnational Conflicts.” College Composition

and Communication 61.2 (2009): 222-239.
“’Why Do the Rulers Listen to the Wild Theories of Speech-Makers?’: Or Wuwei, Shi, and Methods of

Comparative Rhetoric.” Ancient Non-Greek Rhetorics. Ed. Carol Lipson and Roberta Binkley.

West Lafayette: Parlor Press. 2009. 176-96.
“Recent Advances in Comparative Rhetorical Studies.” The Handbook of Rhetoric. Ed. Andrea

Lunsford, Kirt H. Wilson, and Rosa A. Eberly. Thousand Oak: Sage, 2009. 153-66. With Sue

Hum.

“R hetorical Authority in Athenian Democracy and the Chinese Legalism of Han Fei.” Philosophy

and Rhetoric 41.1 (2008): 51-71.

“Mentor or Magician: Reciprocities, Existing Ideologies, and Reflections of a Discipline.”

Stories of Mentoring: Theory and Praxis. Ed. Michelle F. Eble and Lynée Lewis Gaillet. West

Lafayette: Parlor P, 2008. 193-206. With Barbara Cole.

“Misrepresentations of Missing Women in the U.S. Press: The Rhetorical Uses of Disgust, Pity, and

Compassion.” Just Advocacy? Women’s Human Rights, Transnational Feminism, and the

Politics of Representation. Ed. Wendy S. Hesford and Wendy Kozol. Rutgers UP, 2005. 173-

92.
“Confucian Silence and Remonstration: A Basis for Deliberation?” Rhetoric Before and Beyond

UP, 2004. 131-45.

2003. 36-52.

"Sources of Non-Canonical Readings, or Doing History from Prejudice." Rhetoric Review 16.2

(1998): 226-41.
"Student Needs and Strong Composition: Dialectics of Writing Program Reform." College

Composition and Communication 48.3 (1997): 372-91. With Frank Sullivan, Susan Wells,

Dennis Lebofsky, and Eli Goldblatt.

265-84.
"Collaborative Afterword." Reclaiming Rhetorica: Women in the Rhetorical Tradition. Ed.

Andrea Lunsford. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1995. 319-33. Contributor.
"`The Good Man Speaking Well,' or Business as Usual." JAC: A Journal of Rhetoric, Culture, and

Politics 14.1 (1994): 257-63. Rpt. In (Inter)views: Criticism, Philosophy, and Rhetoric. Ed.

Gary Olson. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1994. 220-26.

“On the Politics of Writing Transnational Rhetorics: Possibilities and Pitfalls.” Rhetorics,

2012. 54-6. With Banu Ozel.

published in Special Issue on Human Rights Rhetoric: Traditions of Testifying and Witnessing.

Katherine H. Adams.

2005. 366-7.

(1998): 106-8. With Frank Sullivan, Susan Wells, Dennis Lebofsky, and Eli Goldblatt.

"Ayer, A. J." "Frege, Gottlob." "Logical Positivism." Encyclopedia of Rhetoric. Ed. Theresa Enos.

New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1996. 58, 274, 406-7.

www.kbjournal.org/

(2008): 102-5.

98-100.
Kenneth Burke: Rhetoric, Subjectivity, Postmodernism by Robert Wess. Rhetoric Society

“Confucian Audiences, Memes, and the Umbrella Movement.” UMass-Lowell. January 2015.

Summer Seminar in Comparative Rhetoric. Rhetoric Society of America Institute. University of

Kansas. June 3-7, 2013. Co-taught with Luming Mao.

“Performative Deliberation: Deliberative Theory for the Twenty-first Century,” Edward Corbett

Lecture and Workshop, Ohio State University, May 2012.

Supersession on Human Rights, Rhetoric Society of America Conference, May 2012.

“Cultural Rhetorics and Deliberative Rights.” Frontera Retorica Association. University of Texas

at El Paso. Skype. March 2012.

“Beyond Similitude: Recognizing Cultural Rhetorics On Their Own Terms,” Penn State

Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, July 2011.

Talks on Writing for Academic Publication at Capital Normal University (Beijing) and Huazhong

University of Science and Technology (Wuhan), July 2010.

“Balancing the Personal and Professional Life,” Workshop Leader, Coalition of Women Scholars in

the History of Rhetoric and Composition, March 2010.

“Who Owns Composition? Disciplinarity and Identity,” opening address, SUNY Conference on

Writing, March 2009.

“Speech of Freedom: Deliberative Paradoxes in Human Rights Talk,” Syracuse University, April

2009.

Response to “Metaphysics of the Soul and the Development of Chinese and Greek Ethics,” UB

“’Why Do the Rulers Listen to the Wild Theories of Speech-Makers?’ Or, Rhetoric, the Law, and

Ancient China,” Asia At Noon, UB, November 2006.

“Plagiarism and Speech Act Theory: What’s at Stake,” SUNY Council on Writing, March 2006. “Locating Rhetorical Authority: Classical Theorists of China and Athens,” Kenneth Burke Society at

Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, July 2005.

“Amy Tan’s Joy Luck Club: the Good Mother and the Left Daughter,” Speakers Symposium,

University at Buffalo, March 2003.

Week of talks on American Culture at Guangxi University, December 2001.

“Feminism and Post-feminism in Disney’s Mulan,” American Studies Association of Korea, April

2000.

China, 1999-2000.

Faculty Roundtable on "Theorizing Politics: Politicizing Theory," Schuylkill Graduate

Conference, October 1998.

"Theorizing Feminist Rhetorics," Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference, August 1997.

Forum on Women in the Rhetorical Canon, Conference on College Composition and

Communication, March 1996.

"Plato and Feminists on Pluralism," Ohio State University, April 1993.

“Confucian Audiences, Other Minds and the Umbrella Movement.” International Society of Chinese

Philosophy, 2015.

“Rights as Relationships: The Clash of Positive and Negative Rights in Hong Kong Demonstrations,”

Northeast Modern Language Association, 2015.

Roundtable on “Writing Human Rights: Pedagogy, Program Building, and Mentorship,” Conference

on College Composition and Communication, 2015.

“The Common Core and Argumentation: Embracing Confucian Remonstration.” International

Conference on Confucianism and Education, Confucius Institute, 2014.

“Forget Need: Overwhelming Student Desire for the Writing Center,” SUNY Council on Writing,

2014.

“Speaking for and with Each Other: Crossing Borders in the Company of Comparative Rhetoric,”

“A Comparative Meditation on Imperial Inclusions: Paradox and the Dao,” International Society of

Chinese Philosophy, 2013.

“The Problem of Recognition and Contingent Labor,” SUNY Council on Writing, 2013.

“Strengths and Limitations of a Rhetorical Approach to Human Rights,” Modern Language

Association 2012. With Lester Olson.

“The Unsustainable Economy of Composition and a Cattle Call to Action,” SUNY Council on

Writing, 2012.

“The Work of Positioning: How the Concept Shi (potential) Might Inform Epistemologies of

Location,” New York Conference on Asian Studies, 2011.

“Rejuvenating Feminism in a System of Institutional Fragmentation,” Conference on College

Composition and Communication, 2011.

“An End to Academic Discourse and a Return to Student Ownership,” SUNY Council on Writing,

2011.

“Disciplinary Diseases and the Preservation of Rhetorical Traditions in a Global Context,” SUNY

Conference on Writing, 2010.

“Owning First Year Writing: A Litmus Tests for Rethinking Instructor Knowledge,” Conference on

College Composition and Communication, 2010.

“Composition and the Preservation of Rhetorical Traditions in a Global Context,” Modern

Language Association, 2009.

“Procedural Democracy and Deliberative Rhetoric: Revising Habermas,” Rhetoric Society of

America, 2008.

“Narratives, Private and Public: Hannah Arendt’s Storytelling,” SUNY Conference on Writing,

2008.

“First Amendment Contradictions and Paradoxes, Northeast Modern Language Association, 2008.

Communication, 2008.

“Representing Impossible Choices, Educating Deliberative Emotions,” New York College English

Association, 2007.

“Following the Political Dao: Han Fei’s Rhetor and Identity Denied,” College Composition and

Communication, 2007.

“Sinocentric Cultures, Plagiarism, and Speech Act Theory,” Modern Language Association, 2006.

“Han Fei and the Speech Act of Silence,” Conference on College Composition and Communication,

2006.

“Locating Rhetorical Authority: The Imagined Rhetor in Classical Athens and China,” National

“(Mis)representations of China’s Population Replacement Policies,” New York Conference on

Asian Studies, 2003.

“Misrepresenting Missing Women,” Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s), 2003.

“Teaching Confucian Rhetoric, or How to be a Pseudo-Sinologist,” Conference on College

Composition and Communication, 2003.

“Acknowledging Differences When Writing Rhetorical History,” Conference on College

Composition and Communication, 2002.

“Existing Ideologies as Pedagogical Deflections in the TA Classroom,” Modern Language

Association, 2001.

“A Confucian Reading of Speaking and Silences in Ha Jin’s Ocean of Words, Asian-American

Studies Conference, 2001.

“American Feminist in a Sichuan Classroom: Different Teaching Strategies in Different Cultures,”

Conference on College Composition and Communication, 2001.

"Strong Composition in the Rhetorical Tradition," College Conference on Composition and

Communication, 1999.

"Rhetorical Deliberation: Burke and Austin on Action," Rhetoric Society of America, 1998.

"Manly Writing and Feminist Reading: Revising the Canon," Modern Language Association,

1997.

"Real World Rhetoric: Production More than Interpretation." Penn State Conference on Rhetoric

"Intentions and Rhetoric," Rhetoric Society of America, 1996.

“What is Freshman Writing?" Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, 1995.

Forum on Literature and Composition, College Conference on Composition and Communication,

1995.

"Literary Rhetorics, Ethics, and Cultural Orthodoxies," Modern Language Association, 1994. "Literary Rhetoric and Intentionality," Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, 1994.

"Anti-Pluralist Stances in English Departments," College Conference on Composition and

Communication, 1994.

"Feminism, Historiography, and Plato," Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition,

1993.

"Wittgenstein's Stories: Desiring Less, Accruing More," International Narrative Conference, 1993.

"Plato, Pluralism, and Violence," Speech Communication Association, 1992.

"Wittgenstein and Narrative Proof," Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, 1992.

"Rhetoric and Violence," Rhetoric Society of America, 1992.

"Metaphoric Productivity vs. the Disciplinary Police," Conference of College Composition and

Communication, 1992.

"When the Panopticon Is Not Enough: Women, Violence, and Power," Conference of College

Composition and Communication, 1991.

"Just Say No: Positioning in the Negative," International Rhetoric Council, 1990.

"Disciplining the Community," Rhetoric Society of America, 1990.

"Aims, Actions, Structures of Association: The Dynamics of Disciplinarity," Conference of

College Composition and Communication, 1990.

"Wittgenstein and the Construction of Self," Rhetoric Society of America, 1988.

"Susanne Langer: Mother and Midwife at the Rebirth of Rhetoric," Conference on College

Composition and Communication, 1988.
Selected Recent Presentations and Workshops at University at Buffalo

“Writing for Publication.” Medical Educator Group for Psychiatry Residents, Spring 2015.

“Approaches to Successful Academic Writing,” Center for Comparative and Global Studies in

Education, Spring 2015.

“Strategies for Assessing Writing: Criteria, Holistic Scoring, or No Assessment at All,” UB

Assessment Day 3.0. Fall 2014.

“Technical Writing: Thirty Years of Writing Pedagogy in Thirty Minutes,” SEAS Colloquium,

Spring 2014.

“Tackling Long Writing Projects,” SEAS Colloquium, Fall 2013.

“How to Assign and Respond to Student Writing,” Graduate Student Teaching Conference, Summer

2013.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

National and State Service

Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition: Advisory Board

Member 06-12, ex-officio 12- .

Organizer 2013 (72 presenters, over 100 attendees).

Presses: Hampton, Norton, Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Routledge, SUNY, Temple

University, Tennessee University, University of Southern Illinois.

Journals: College English; JAC: A Journal of Rhetoric, Culture, and Politics; Peitho;

SUNY-Buffalo

University: Advisory Board of Institute for Research on Women and Gender 14- , Two General

Education Reform Committees (ePortfolio and Communication) 14, Search Committee for the

Director of Office of Educational Innovation and Assessment 14, Faculty Senator 11-14,

Faculty Senate Teaching and Learning Committee 09- , Technology Committee 01-04.

Administer, 3 TA’s, and over 20 part-time graduate and undergraduate writing consultants.

4000 consultations the first year.

College: Ad hoc Committee to Assess Graduate Programs 10, Asian Studies Advisory Board 10- ,

CAS Policy Committee Steering Committee 07-11, CAS Policy Committee 05-11, CAS Policy Library Subcommittee 06-12, Initiator and Organizer of Vagina Monologues benefit production

01, 02, raised $20,000 for Anti-Rape Taskforce.

Departments: American Studies: Faculty Advisory Committee 08-11.

English Department: Rhetoric of Science Search Committee 14-15, Chair of Search Committee

for Director of Center for Excellence in Writing 12-13, Composition Committee 00-04, 05- ,

Composition Search Committee 08-09, Asian-American Search Committee 03-4, Executive

Committee 01-02.
Temple University

University: Faculty Senate 98-99, Temple Issues Forum Advisory Board 98-99, Provost's Ad

Hoc Committee on Reading and Writing 93-94, University Writing Committee 92-94.

College: Asian American Advisory Board 98-99, Teaching Improvement Center 95-99, CAS

Writing Committee 94-96, Women's Studies Undergraduate Curriculum Revision 92-93.

Department: Graduate Executive Committee 96-99, First Year Writing Committee 96-98,

University Director of Writing Search 95-96, Composition Search Committees 93, 94-95,

English Promotion and Tenure 93-94, 95-97, Representative to English Institute 93.

University: Chancellor's Committee on the Status of Women 91-92.

English: Department: Undergraduate Studies 91-92, Composition Search 91-92.

TEACHING (SELECTED COURSES)

Graduate

Rhetorical Theory

Violence and Rhetoric

Composition and Rhetoric

Hermeneutics and Rhetoric

Representations of Human Rights

Feminist Research Methods

Feminist Performances

Introduction to Teaching (TA preparation)

Undergraduate

Life Writing

Literature and the Law

Feminist Theory

Rhetorical Theory (including with service learning)

Rhetoric and American Culture

Literary Criticism

U.S. Representations of Asia

American Women Writers

American Pluralism

American Literature

World Civilizations (two semester course)

Technical Writing

Composition (including ESL and Basic Writing)

Rixin Zha, Fulbright scholar, Sichuan University, 2000-2001.

Weijie Xia, Wuhan University, 2008-2009.

Dan Wang, Capital Normal University, Fall 2010.

Yanyan Xiong, Capital Normal University, Fall 2011. Currently a Ph.D. student at Renmin.

Qin Chang, Northwestern Polytechnic University, 2014-2015.

Yan Sun, Zhengzhou Institute of Aeronautical Industry Management, 2014-2015.
DISSERTATIONS (at University of Buffalo)

Chair

Swati Bandi, American Studies. “Of Rights and Representations: Transient Subjects, Women’s

Rights and Global Documentary Interventions.” Spring 2014.

Hyeon Jeong Lee, English. "A Quest for the Fleeting Moments of Racial Forgiveness in Faulkner

and Morrison." Winter 2014.

Banu Ȍzel, English. “From Slavery to Guantanamo: Writing Lives, Seeking Rights.” November

2012.

Committee Member

Yoonha Shin. “Beyond the Dichotomy: Rethinking Women’s Sexual Liberation and Female Sexuality in Contemporary Women’s Fiction.” Expected 2016.

Elizabeth M. Stover, English. “Tragic Investigations: The Value of Tragedy in American Political

and Ethical Life.” October 2006.

Mark Edwards Peters, English. “Freewriting and Unfreewriting: Using Innovative Writing to Make

New Meanings in Composition.” June 2002.

Yin Song, American Studies. “Cultural Hybridization: Rethinking Globalization in China and the

U.S.” May 2009.

Committee Member

Laura E. Felschow, Media Studies. “Todd Haynes: The Public, the Private and the Performative.”

February 2009.
REFERENCES
Professor Wendy Hesford, English, Ohio State University, 421 Denney Hall,
164 W 17th Ave. Columbus, OH 43210-1370 hesford.1@osu.edu

Professor LuMing Mao, English, Miami 356 Bachelor Hall, Miami University of Ohio, Oxford, OH 45056 maolr@muohio.edu