Andrea Stover
Dr. Andrea Stover, Associate Professor and Graduate Program
Director, got her BA at the University of Vermont, her MA in
English Literature at Boston College, and her Ph.D. in Rhetoric and
Composition at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her
extensive work in autobiography, memoir, and diary studies draws
upon interests and concerns in both literature and composition.
She has taught courses in composition such as: 'Storying:
the American Experience: A Study in Writing and Genre,'
'From Speaking to Writing and Back Again: A Study of the
Intersections between Orality and Literacy,' and
'Exploratory Writing: The Memoir.' On the graduate
level she has taught 'Women's Writing,
'Writing the Unspeakable in Gothic Literature,' and
'Practical Literary Criticism.'
Her dissertation,
Resisting Privacy: Problems with Self-Representation in
Journals and Diaries, analyzes the resistance to private
writing experienced by writers ranging from first-year college
students to Virginia Woolf. Publications include, 'The
Private Reclaimed: Redefining Public/Private Boundaries in the
Composition Classroom' in
Going Public: Student Writing as Public Text and
'Using Student Publications: Developing Audience
Awareness' in
Notes in the Margins. She was also an assistant editor and
contributing author for
Teaching in Process: Multimedia Resources for Writing
Teachers, a CD-ROM published by Houghton Mifflin.
email:
Andrea Stover
phone: 615.460.6246
office: WHB 214
