Timothy Ballingall
Degree and Focus Area
PhD, Rhetoric and Composition
Previous degrees/universities
MA English, West Chester University; BA English (Professional Writing), Kutztown University
Areas of interest and expertise
Women's and gendered rhetorics
Describe your research and its purpose/applications
My research largely focuses on women’s rhetorical history, feminist rhetorical theory, and multimodal composition pedagogy. My interest in rhetoric and gender animates my dissertation, which examines white, African-American, Mexican-American, and Japanese-American women’s advice columns in the decades between the world wars in order to understand the affordances and limitations the advice-column genre offered women of various social locations as they engaged cultural conventions, broadened the definition of journalism, and cultivated a compelling and thoughtful advice-columnist ethos. My other published and in-progress work has focused on feminist interpretations of ethos, gendered rhetorics, multiliteracy in the writing center, and the undergraduate writing curriculum.
Publications
“Motherhood, Time, and Wendy Davis’s Ethos.” Peitho: The Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric. 20.1 (2017). Forthcoming.
Review of From Boys to Men: Rhetorics of Emergent American Masculinity, by Leigh Ann Jones. Composition Studies. 45.2 (2017). Forthcoming.
Review of Rethinking Ethos: A Feminist Ecological Approach to Rhetoric, edited by Kathleen J. Ryan, Nancy Myers, and Rebecca Jones. Rhetoric Review 36.1 (2017): 102-5. Print.
Conference Presentations
“Maternal Epideictic Rhetoric in a Mid-Twentieth-Century Advice Column.” Feminisms and Rhetorics, Dayton, OH. Oct. 2017.
Why TCU English?
The faculty which is second to none, the supportive and collaborative environment, and the professional development opportunities.
PhD, Rhetoric and Composition
Previous degrees/universities
MA English, West Chester University; BA English (Professional Writing), Kutztown University
Areas of interest and expertise
Women's and gendered rhetorics
Describe your research and its purpose/applications
My research largely focuses on women’s rhetorical history, feminist rhetorical theory, and multimodal composition pedagogy. My interest in rhetoric and gender animates my dissertation, which examines white, African-American, Mexican-American, and Japanese-American women’s advice columns in the decades between the world wars in order to understand the affordances and limitations the advice-column genre offered women of various social locations as they engaged cultural conventions, broadened the definition of journalism, and cultivated a compelling and thoughtful advice-columnist ethos. My other published and in-progress work has focused on feminist interpretations of ethos, gendered rhetorics, multiliteracy in the writing center, and the undergraduate writing curriculum.
Publications
“Motherhood, Time, and Wendy Davis’s Ethos.” Peitho: The Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric. 20.1 (2017). Forthcoming.
Review of From Boys to Men: Rhetorics of Emergent American Masculinity, by Leigh Ann Jones. Composition Studies. 45.2 (2017). Forthcoming.
Review of Rethinking Ethos: A Feminist Ecological Approach to Rhetoric, edited by Kathleen J. Ryan, Nancy Myers, and Rebecca Jones. Rhetoric Review 36.1 (2017): 102-5. Print.
Conference Presentations
“Maternal Epideictic Rhetoric in a Mid-Twentieth-Century Advice Column.” Feminisms and Rhetorics, Dayton, OH. Oct. 2017.
Why TCU English?
The faculty which is second to none, the supportive and collaborative environment, and the professional development opportunities.
