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Lisa Ede

Professor of English


Oregon State University
Moreland 236
2550 SW Jefferson Way
Corvallis, OR 97331 USA
Tel: 541-737-1636
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Credentials

  • Ph.D. - The Ohio State University 1975
  • M.A. - The University of Wisconsin, Madison 1970
  • B.S., cum laude - The Ohio State University 1969

Research

Lisa Ede has been teaching rhetoric and writing at OSU since 1980. Her research interests include rhetorical theory and practice; current composition theory; new media and new literacies; and feminist, cultural, and critical pedagogical studies. Ede has authored, coauthored, edited, or coedited eight books:  Writing Together:  Collaboration in Theory and Practice (with Andrea Lunsford 2011);  The Academic Writer:  A Brief Guide for Students (2008, 2011);  Situating Composition:  Composition Studies and the Politics of Location (2004);  Selected Essays of Robert J. Connors (with Andrea Lunsford 2003);  On Writing Research:  The Braddock Award Essays, 1975-1998 (1999);  Singular Texts/Plural Authors:  Perspectives on Collaborative Writing (with Andrea Lunsford 1990);  Work in Progress:  A Guide to Academic Writing and Revising (1989, 1992, 1995, 1998, 2001, 2004);  and Essays on Classical Rhetoric and Modern Discourse (with Robert Connors and Andrea Lunsford 1984).  Her scholarly work has been recognized with awards for outstanding research from the Modern Language Association, Conference on College Composition and Communication, and the International Writing Center Association. 

Links:

Writing Together: Collaboration in Theory and Practice -  http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/Catalog/product/writingtogether-firstedition-lunsford

Engaging Audience:  Writing in an Age of New Literacies (This NCTE publication reprints three of Professor Ede and Lunsford’s essays on audience and includes commentaries on their work.) - https://secure.ncte.org/store/engaging-audience

The Academic Writer: A Brief Guide - http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/Catalog/product/academicwriter-secondedition-ede

“Audience Addressed/Audience Invoked:  The Role of Audience in Composition Theory and Practice” (This essay has been reprinted in thirteen anthologies of research in rhetoric and writing.) - http://cdh.sc.edu/~bhawk/readings/lunsford-ede.pdf

Course Information

ENG 495/595 Language, Technology, and Culture

What are the effects of developments in communications technology (writing, printing, radio, TV, computers, digital communications, etc.) on the ways we think and learn?  How do these changes affect what it means to be literate? How do (or should) they influence the teaching of reading, writing, and literature?  In this course we will investigate the changing nature of literacy and other cultural, educational, political, and economic systems in the context of changing technologies in the history of western communications.

TEXTBOOKS

  • Marshall McLuhan and Quenton Fiore, The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects, Gingko Press 2001 (originally published 1967)
  • Henry Jenkins, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, New York University Press 2006; paperback edition 2008 (with afterword)
  • D. E. Wittkower (Ed.), Facebook and Philosophy: What’s on Your Mind?, Open Court Press, 2010
  • Henry Jenkins et. al., Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century, MIT Press, 2009
WR 512 Current Composition Theory
Available Spring Term

WR 512 offers graduate students a survey of some of the major studies and theories in composition published during the last forty or so years.  By the end of the term, students should have a good understanding of the development of rhetoric and writing as an academic discipline and of some of the most significant questions asked by scholars in the field.  Throughout the term we will move back and forth from a focus on the research as research to discussion of the implications of these studies for classroom practice.

Students will write informal responses to our readings and complete a sequence of writing assignments that will culminate in a seminar paper.  The topic and approach of the seminar paper are open. 

Contact Info

Writing, Literature, & Film 238 Moreland Hall 541.737.3244
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