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Degree

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bowling Green State University, English/Rhetoric and Writing, 2004.

Abstract

This dissertation examines out lesbian teachers in the college composition classroom from a viewpoint of feminist teacher research and “queer geography”. Employing composition history, the ideological erasure of lesbian teacher subjectivities in the composition classroom is outlined. Case studies of lesbian teachers and students in lesbian teachers’ composition classrooms indicate in a preliminary way that students’ choice of writing topics, student writing and student subject positions are affected by the presence of out lesbian composition teachers.

Keywords

homosexuality; lesbian teachers; lesbian composition professors; composition studies; college writing; college composition; empowerment pedagogies; critical pedagogies; Writing Across the Curriculum pedagogies; queer theory; cultural studies

Committee / Advisors

Lovie Sue Carter (Advisor)
Rachel Vannatta
Donna Nelson-Beene
Valerie Rohy

Pages

206p.

Document number: bgsu1100110069
Permalink: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1100110069

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