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Dianne O. Marion
Adjunct Associate Professor of Rhetoric
"It is our belief that no writer can improve his work until he discards the dulcet notion that the reader is feeble-minded,for writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar." --E. B. White
Wanda Little Fenimore
Lecturer in Rhetoric
H-SC alumni repeatedly mention that the rhetoric program helped them present themselves better, in class, in job interviews, in meeting people.
Verna L. Kale
Visiting Assistant Professor of Rhetoric
"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know." Ernest Hemingway
Dr. Elizabeth J. Deis
Elliott Professor of Rhetoric and Humanities
Atkinson, 305
(434) 223-6118
edeis@hsc.edu
Education
B.A., College of William and Mary (1973); M.A., Duke University (1976); Ph.D., Duke University (1985).
Teaching Interests
RhetoricNineteenth-century British literature
literary theory
gender studies
Victorian literature
Literary Criticism
Introduction to Literature
Art of the Essay
Committee Assignments & Service to the College
Co-Director of the Writing Center (with Lowell Frye)Director of the Rhetoric Program (2004-2007 and previous years, as well)
Academic Affairs Committee (2006-2007; member and chair in previous years)
Faculty Affairs Committee
Strategic Planning Committee/QEP committee
Curriculum Review Committee (chair)
Assessment Committee
Most Recent Publications
"British Travelers and the ‘Condition-of-America Question': Defining America in the 1830s." Written jointly with Lowell T. Frye. In Seeing America: Nineteenth-Century British Travelers in the New World. Edited by Christine DeVine. To be published by Ashgate Press in 2012.
Editor of Three Stories by George Meredith
Author of articles on Victorian literature and culture
Theory and practice of college writing
Presentations on Victorian literature and culture
Teaching college writing at conferences
Other Interests
Member of College church choir and Commonwealth Choralesupporter/volunteer with Prince Edward County schools and Farmville/Prince Edward County public library
Board member (chair) of Piedmont Regional Humanities Council
Family
Spouse: Lowell T. Frye
Children:
Lowell Charles (b. 1988)
Alice Elizabeth (b. 1992)