Hephzibah Roskelly

Hephzibah Roskelly, former Director of the Composition Program at UNCG, now holds the Women’s Studies Professorship. She teaches courses in Rhetoric and Composition and American literature and culture. Her special interests include pedagogy, literacy, theories of composition, and gender studies. She is author of five books, Breaking (Into) the Circle; Reason to Believe: Romanticism, Pragmatism and the Possibility of Teaching (with Kate Ronald); An Unquiet Pedagogy (with Eleanor Kutz); Farther Along: Transforming Dichotomies in Rhetoric and Composition (with Kate Ronald); and Everyday Use: Rhetoric in Reading and Writing (with David Jolliffe) which came out in its second edition in 2008. Roskelly's recent graduate courses include: Social Construction Theory & Collaboration, Reading Theory & Writing Theory, Romanticism & Pragmatism, Women’s Rhetoric & Feminist Pedagogy. She is the Linda Carlisle Distinguished Excellence Professor at UNCG and has won the Outstanding Teaching Award for the University.