Kate Ronald, The Howe Writing Professor
Office Hours: Monday 10:00-11:30; Wednesday 1:00-2:00 19 Upham
Kate Ronald joined the Miami faculty in October of 1996. A native of Louisville,
KY, she earned her Ph.D. in rhetoric and composition from the English Department
at the University of Louisville. At the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Kate
served as the Coordinator of Composition, Coordinator of the Writing Center,
and Chair of Graduate Studies. She has published numerous articles and books
on the teaching of writing since 1982. Her areas of research include the history
of rhetoric, writing across the curriculum, theory and practice of pedagogy,
and studies of student and disciplinary writing. She teaches graduate and undergraduate
courses in composition theory, history, and practice. She is delighted to be
back in this part of the country, close to home again, and surrounded by real
trees and humidity. With her husband, Dennis Alcorn, she lives on an acreage
just outside of Oxford. Kate is grateful for the warm welcome she has received
at Miami.
Miami University Department of English
305 Bachelor Hall, Oxford, Ohio 45056
513-529-5257
Education Academic/Administrative Positions Awards & Honors I. Research Publications
Conference Papers & Presentations II. Teaching Courses Taught at Miami Consultation
in SBA Courses Service
Richard T Farmer School of Business Administration
208L Laws Hall, Miami University
Oxford, Ohio 45056
513-529-6730 e-mail: ronaldkj@muohio.edu
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., 1984, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
M.A., 1979, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
B.A., 1971, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
ACADEMIC/ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS:
Roger and Joyce L. Howe Professor of English, Miami University, 1996-
Associate Professor of English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1991-1996
Assistant Professor of English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1984-1990
Graduate Chair, English, UN-L, 1995-1996
Co-Coordinator of Composition Courses, English, UN-L, 1988-1995
Coordinator, Writing Assistance Center, UN-L, 1991 - 1995
Director, Writing Center, University of Louisville, 1982-1984
Assistant Director, Composition, University of Louisville, 1980-1982
AWARDS/HONORS:
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Scholarly/Teacher Award, 1996 Nominee
Sue Tidball Award for Creative Humanity 1995
Annas Chaikin Sorensen Award for Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities, 1991
Recognition Award for teaching from UN-L Parents Association, 1990, 1991, 1993,
1995, 1996
I. RESEARCH
PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS:
Reason to Believe: Romanticism, Pragmatism, and the Teaching of Writing,
with Hephzibah Roskelly. Under contract at SUNY Press. Expected publication:
March 1998
Farther Along: Transforming Dichotomies in Rhetoric and Composition,
` Heinemann/ Boynton/ Cook Publishers. Co-edited with Hephzibah Roskelly. 1990.
REFEREED ARTICLES:
"Riding Long Coattails, Subverting Tradition: Why and How Feminists Should Teach
Rhetoric(s)," in Feminism and Composition, eds. Lynn Worsham and Susan
Jarratt. Modern Languages Association, forthcoming. With Joy Ritchie
"Teaching Locally, Thinking Globally: Intersecting Contexts for the Introductory
Composition Theory And Practice Course," Composition Studies, 23 (Fall
1995): 59-66. With Joy Ritchie and Robert Brooke.
"What's the Use of Stories that Aren't True? A Composition Teacher Reads Creative
Writing," Carolina English Teacher, 1995/1996: 33-43. Issue republished
nationally by NCTE, 1996. Reprinted in Teaching Writing Creatively. Ed. David
Starkey. Heinemann Boyton/Cook, forthcoming.
"Literate Life Stories: Researching Our Lives as Writers and Readers," Teacher
Research, 1 (Fall 1993): 87-104. With Margrethe Ahlschwede, Susan Anderson,
Rick Evans, Amy Ribble, and Joy Ritchie
"Style: The Hidden Agenda in Composition Classrooms," In The Subject is Writing,
ed. Wendy Bishop, Heinemann/Boynton/Cook, 1993, 53-70.
Review of The Writing Center: New Directions, eds. Ray Wallace and Jeanne Simpson
(Garland, 1991) in Focusses, (Summer 1991): 75-77
Review of Marilyn Sternglass's The Presence of Thought : Introspective Accounts
of Reading and Writing (Norwood, 1988) in Journal of Advanced Composition,
11 (1991): 224-226
"A Re-examination of Personal and Public Discourse in Classical Rhetoric," Rhetoric
Review, 9 (1990): 36-50. Under consideration for Reviewing the Sophists
Rhetorically. Eds. Richard Enos and Theresa Enos.
"Personal and Public Authority in Discourse: Beyond Subjective/Objective Dichotomies,"
in Farther Along, 25-40. "Ann Berthoff's Dialectic: Theory and Applications,"
Issues in Writing, 1 (1989): 150-165.
"Another Competing Theory of Process: The Student's." Journal of Advanced
Composition, 9 (1989): 83-97. With Jon Volkmer.
"On the Outside Looking In: Students' Analysis of Academic and Professional
Discourse Communities, " Rhetoric Review, 7 (1988): 130-147.
"Survival of the Fittest: Ten Years in a Basic Writing Program, " Journal
of Basic Writing, 7 (1988): 13-30. Ed. Hephzibah Roskelly.
"The Politics of Teaching Professional Writing," Journal of Advanced Composition,
7(1987): 23-3. Reprinted in Landmark Essays in Advanced Composition. Ed. Gary
Olson. Hermagoras P, 1996.
"The Self and the Other in the Process of Composing: Implications for Integrating
the Acts of Reading and Writing," in Convergences: Essays on the Connections
Between Reading, Writing, and Literacy, ed. Bruce Petersen, NCTE, 1986:
231-246
"Listening as an Act of Composing," Journal of Basic Writing, 5, (1986):
28-40. With Hephzibah Roskelly "Expressive Writing: Exercises in a New Progymnasmata,"
Journal of Teaching Writing, 4 (1985): 31-53. With Joseph J. Comprone
ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION:
"Coming to Composition, or, A Collaborative Metanarrative of Professional Life,"
in Professional Writes of Passage: Enculturation Processes in Composition
and Rhetoric. Eds. Jane Detweiler and Lauren Sewell, NCTE, forthcoming.
UNDER REVIEW:
Available Means/Justifiable Ends: Rereading Women's Rhetorical Practice as
Theory. Critical Anthology. Under review at commercial presses. With Joy
Ritchie.
IN PROGRESS:
"Building and Assessing Rhetorical Skills in Undergraduate Business Education."
With Chuck Crespy and Jim Stearns, Marketing Department. To be sent to Journal
of Marketing Education, Summer 1997.
"Educating Hope: Paulo Freire as Pragmatist." With Hephzibah Roskelly
"Sublime Narratives: Mediating the Paradoxes of Liberatory Writing Pedagogies."
With Keith Rhodes.
"Mothers, Models, and Mediators: An Exploration and Critique of Women Mentors."
With Joy Ritchie and Hephzibah Roskelly.
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS:
"Available Means/Necessary Acts: Reading Women's Rhetorical Practice as Theory
and Teaching Women's Rhetorical Theory as Action." Conference: From Boundaries
to Borderlands: Intersections of Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s). Oregon State University,
28 August 1997.
"Implications of Writing Project Practice for Theory in the Classroom, or What
Happens Next?" Invited Talk to West Tennessee Writing Project, Martin, TN, 25
June 1997
"Paulo Freire as Pragmatist," Conference on College Composition (CCCC), Phoenix,
AZ, 14 March 1997
"Educating Hope: Paulo Freire's Pragmatic Philosophy and the North American
Teacher." Pedagogy of the Oppressed Conference, Omaha, March 1996
"Collaboration, Community, and Conflict" and "Educating Hope: Romanticism and
Pragmatism and the State of Teaching Writing." Invited talks to Department of
English, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 22-23 February 1996. With
Hephzibah Roskelly.
"Reclaiming Romantic Rhetoric." American Conference on Romanticism, Milwaukee,
September 1995
"Disrupted Ideals, Disruptive Desires: Pragmatism, Idealism, and Practicality
in Ideas of the Writing Center." National Conference on Writing Centers, St.
Louis, September 1995
"Theory Matters: Pragmatic Belief and Action in Writing Classes." Conference
on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), Washington, D.C., March 1995
"Examining the Literacy of Literacy Courses." CCCC, Washington,D.C, March 1995
"Crossing Boundaries, Comedy Teams, and Collaboration: How Writing Together
Actually Works." CCCC, Nashville, March 1994
"Of Laverne and Shirley, Lucy and Ethel, and the Pleasures of Partnership: Collaborative
Writing." South Atlantic Modern Languages Association, Atlanta, November 1993.
With Hephzibah Roskelly.
"Amazing Grace: The Role of the Sublime in Liberatory Writing Pedagogies." Penn
State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, July 1993. With Keith Rhodes.
"Better Theories, Worse Poems: The Hope of Pragmatism." CCCC, San Diego, April
1993
"Reading the Word and the World in Literate Life Histories." National Council
of Teachers of English, Louisville, November 1992
"Science and Romance: A Pedagogy of Mediation." CCCC, Cincinnati, March 1992
"Conscientizing the Field: Acting on Belief in Composition." CCCC, Cincinnati,
postconvention workshop, 21 March 1992
"On the Road and in the Academy: Dialogues with Old and New Teachers of Writing,"
CCCC, Chicago, 1990
"Reclaiming Romantic Rhetoric through Romantic Philosophy." CCCC, Chicago, 1990
"Oppositional Thinking in Rhetoric and Composition since 1960." CCCC, Seattle,
March 1989
"A Reexamination of Personal and Public Discourse in the Classical Tradition."
Rhetoric Society of America Conference, Arlington, Texas, May 1988 "Academic
Theory vs. Professional Practice: Some Lessons from Historical Rhetoric." CCCC,
St. Louis, March 1988
"Rhetorical Analysis of Writing in the Disciplines." CCCC, Atlanta, March 1987
"Ann Berthoff's Dialectic in the Classroom." Modern Languages Association, New
York, December 1986
"The Politics of Teaching Professional Writing." CCCC, New Orleans, March 1986
"Listening as an Act of Composing in Basic Writing." CCCC, Minneapolis, March
1985
"Connecting Two Aims of Discourse: The Literary and the Expressive." CCCC, Detroit,
March 1983
"The Place of Expressive Discourse in the Process of Learning to Write." CCCC,
San Francisco, March 1982 "Literature and Composition: Models, Strategies, and
Writing Activities.
"National Council of Teachers of English, Boston, November 1981
II. TEACHING
COURSES TAUGHT AT MIAMI:
English 734: (Issues in Composition Pedagogy:) Composition as an Interdisciplinary
Field: The History, Theory, Practice, and Politics of Writing Across the Curriculum,
Spring 1997
CONSULTATION IN SBA COURSES:
SPRING 1997:
Accounting 221: Principles of Accountancy (Phil Cottell, Chuck Carpenter)
Decision Sciences 205: Business Statistics (Rick O'Connell)
Economics 201: Principles of Microeconomics (Glenn Platt, Mike McBride)
Finance 342: Legal Environment of Business (Karen Miksch, Anne Lawton)
Finance 485: Integrative Concepts in Finance (Barbara Lewis)
Management 301: Organizational Behavior ( Kay Snavely)
Management 415: Leadership and Learning (David Cowan)
Management 467: Entrepreneurship (John Altman)
Management 495: Strategic Management (Charles Watson)
Marketing 291: Principles of Marketing (Rob Twells)
Marketing 351: Marketing Analysis (Chuck Crespy, Jim Stearns)
Marketing 461: Principles of Retailing (Jack Gifford)
Management Information Systems 486: User Business Information Systems Development
(Sooun Lee, Dale Young)
III. SERVICE
SERVICE AT MIAMI:
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT:
Member, Recruitment Committee, Composition, Fall 1996
Executive Committee, Center for the Study of Writing, 1996-1997
RICHARD T. FARMER SCHOOL OF BUSINESS:
Member, Written and Oral Communication Skills Committee, 1996-1997
Consulting with 24 Faculty members in 15 courses on integrating writing into
the Business curriculum, Spring 1997
UNIVERSITY:
Member, Selection Committee, Distinguished Professor, Political Science
LOCAL PRESENTATIONS - MIAMI:
"The Power of PowerPoint Presentations,," Marketing 461 -- Principles of Retailing,
25 February 1997
"Writing and Leadership," Management 415 -- Leadership and Learning, 20 February,
1997
"Integrating Writing into the School of Business Administration Curriculum,"
six separate talks to Departments of Accountancy, Economics, Finance, Decision
Sciences/Management Information Systems, Management, Marketing, January/ February
1997
"Writing Plans and Faculty Change," Talk to Richard T. Farmer SBA Advisory Board,
9 December 1996 "Strategies for Improving Written Communication," Talk to the
Richard T. Farmer Business Advisory Council, 11 October 1996