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www.henriettarixwood.com


Research Description

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My research addresses the history of women and rhetoric in the United States during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the United States, and the teaching and practice of composition-rhetoric in high schools during the same period. I teach and practice archival research, with a particular emphasis on Kansas City and regional history. As a former newspaper reporter, I also teach students how to research contemporary issues by interviewing people, conducting surveys, and using both academic and popular sources. My book, Praising Girls: The Rhetoric of Young Women, 1895-1930, was published by Southern Illinois University Press in 2016, and I co-edited Writing Stories: Composition and Rhetoric in High Schools and Normal Schools, 1839-1969, released by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2015. My work also has appeared in Rhetoric Review; American Periodicals; Feminist Challenges or Feminist Rhetoric? Locations, Scholarship, Discourse (Cambridge Scholars, 2014); Wide-Open Town: Kansas City in the Pendergast Era (University of Kansas, 2018); The Pendergast Years: Kansas City in the Jazz Age & Great Depression website of the Kansas City Public Library; and Ohio Valley History.


Afflicated Department(s)

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Women's & Gender Studies  


Faculty-related Tags
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women, rhetoric, composition, gender, Kansas City, regional history  


First-generation college graduate
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yes


Region of Interest
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North America  


Country of Interest
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United States  

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