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Jonathan Martin '99
Government
"One of the best things about Hampden-Sydney is the demand that you learn how to write, because increasingly people do not know how to do that. . . It was a fantastic launching pad for a career in journalism."
Dr. David E. Higginbotham
Visiting Assistant Professor of Rhetoric
You will learn a variety of strategies for generating ideas and revising drafts to strengthen organization, clarity, and persuasive power.
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
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)