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Jennifer Wingard

Assistant Professor

• Phone: (713) 743-2975
• Office: 205 Roy Cullen Building
• Email: jwingard@central.uh.edu

Jennifer Wingard is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Composition, and Pedagogy and a faculty affiliate to the Women’s Studies Program. She specializes in 20th Century Rhetorical Theory, Transnational Feminist Theory, and Materialist Theories of Teaching English in the Corporate University. Dr. Wingard’s main area of research is the impact of global neobliberal economics on local civic discourses. She is currently working on a manuscript titled “Discovering Houston: (Un)Masking the Rhetoric of Neoliberalism,” which focuses on Houston, Texas, as a critical site of inquiry within global economic and political discourses. Her research interests also include the rhetoric(s) of protest, media literacy, feminist rhetoric(s) and theories, and critical pedagogy.

Education

• BA California State University, Sacramento, English with Emphasis in Teaching at the Secondary Level
• MA California State University, Sacramento, English
• PhD Syracuse University, Composition and Cultural Rhetoric

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Advanced Credentials

• Certificate of Advanced Study in Women’s Studies (2008)
• Certificate in Teaching College Composition (2002)

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Selected Publications

• “It’s all in the Family: Affective Intensity and the Rhetoric of Protection.” Rhetoric Review. (Under review)
• “Embodying Globalization: The Work of the Body in Maria Full of Grace." Feminist Media Studies. New York: Routledge. Forthcoming 2010.
• Section Editor. Workplace special issue Labor and Law. Workplace Collective. Forthcoming 2009.
• Contributor. Interrupting Heteronormativity: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pedagogy and Responsible Teaching at Syracuse University. Kathleen Farrell, Nisha Gupta, Mary Queen, eds. Syracuse, NY: The Graduate School of Syracuse University, 2004.

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Teaching

• ENGL 3396: Writing Houston: Reading and Researching our City (Fall 2009)
• WSP 6301: Feminist Theory and Methodology (Spring 2011)
• ENGL 7396: The Rhetoric of Place
• ENGL 7396: Critical Pedagogy (Spring 2010)

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Affiliations

• Conference on College Composition and Communication
• The Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition
• Modern Language Association
• National Council of Teachers of English
• National Women’s Studies Association

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Department of English | Office: 205 Roy Cullen Building | (713) 743-3004 | (713) 743-3215 FAX