Wendy Dasler Johnson, Ph.D.

Affiliation: College of Liberal Arts Assistant Professor, Department of English Contact Information: Phone: (360)546-9648 Office: LB 210E E-mail: johnsonw@vancouver.wsu.edu Support Staff: Shari Clevenger clevenge@vancouver.wsu.edu Phone: (360)546-9441

Current Position: Assistant Professor of History and Theory of Rhetoric in the Department of English, College of Letters and Arts; WSU Vancouver, Division of the Humanities. Background: Degree: Ph.D. in English, University of Oregon, 1995; M.A.I.S. in Rhetoric / Literature / Philosophy, Oregon State University, 1990; M.A. in English / Secondary Education, University of Oregon, 1977; B.A. in Secondary Education, Eastern Oregon State College, 1974; B.A. in English, Wellesley College, 1973. Previously taught literature and writing at the University of Oregon, Eugene; writing and English methods at Oregon State University, Corvallis; writing at Eastern Oregon State College, La Grande. Taught ninth through twelfth grade students at Crescent Valley High School in Corvallis, Oregon; Title I tutor; taught ESL, English, history, Latin at Bethany School; Taipei, Taiwan.

Spring 2001 Classes: English 324: Rhetoric & Composition for Teaching English 335: The Bible as Literature Fall 2000 Classes: English 368: The American Novel to 1900 English 597: Topics in Composition & Rhetoric Research: Articles on issues of sentimental rhetoric and class for reading antebellum verse, connections between writing and antebellum women's lives, instructor training in writing pedagogy, and the life of Julia Ward Howe. Current research interests include corsets, a 19th century rhetoric of sentiment, American antebellum verse, electronic pedagogy, gender studies, poetics, critical theory, and Pee Wee. At work on a book recovering a rhetoric of sentiment and reform in American antebellum verse.