Jami L. Carlacio

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Book:

Editor, The Fiction of Toni Morrison: Teaching and Writing on Race, Culture, and Identity.  Urbana: NCTE, 2007.

This edited collection features a broad study of the major works by Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, to include not only assignments, lesson plans, and rationales crafted by college instructors but also essay responses written by undergraduate university students who have studied or are currently studying the works of Toni Morrison.

Refereed Articles and Chapters:

‘“Feeling’ Sentimental: Politicizing Race and Gender in Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.”  Rhetorical Agendas: Political, Ethical, Spiritual. Ed. Patricia Bizzell. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005.

“African American Women’s Autobiography.” Encyclopedia of Women’s Autobiography. Ed. Jo Malin and Victoria Boynton. Westport, CT: Greenwood P. 2005.

“Speaking With and To Me: Discursive Positioning and the Unstable Categories of Race, Class, and Gender.” Calling Cards: Theory and Practice in the Study of Race, Gender, and Culture. Ed. Jacqueline Jones Royster and Ann Marie Simpkins. State U of New York P. 2005.

“Alternative Articulations of Citizenship: The Written Discourse of an African American Woman.” Rhetorical Democracy: Discursive Practices of Civic Engagement. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 2004.

“What’s So Democratic About CMC?: The Rhetoric of Techno-Literacy in the New Millennium.” Electronic Collaboration in the Humanities: Issues and Options. Eds. James Inman, Cheryl Reed, and Peter Sands. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. 2003.

‘“Ye Knew Your Duty, But Ye Did it Not:’ The Epistolary Rhetoric of Sarah Grimké.” Rhetoric Review 21 (July/August 2002).

“Preparing Ethical Citizens for the 21^st Century.” With Alice Gillam. Professing Rhetoric. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002.

Book Reviews:

Review Essay. Response to Reform: Composition and the Professionalization of Teaching by Margaret Marshall (Southern Illinois UP, 2004). Composition Studies. 33.2 (Fall 2005). Available: http://www.compositionstudies.tcu.edu/

“All Dressed Up, With Few Places to Go.” Review Essay. Gender and Rhetorical Space in American Life, 1866-1910 by Nan Johnson (Southern Illinois UP) and Appropriate[ing] Dress: Women’s Rhetorical Style in Nineteenth-Century America by Carol Mattingly (Southern Illinois UP). Journal of Advanced Composition 23.1 (2003): 191-198.

“Resisting and Negotiating: Gender Roles and Rules in Patriarchy.” Rev. of The Gender Knot by Alan Johnson (Temple UP) and Making Gender by Sherry Ortner (Beacon P). Feminist Collections 19 (Winter 1998): 3-4.

Work in Progress/Under Review:

“Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Black Feminist Standpoint as a Rhetorical Tradition.” Under revision for Rhetoric Review.

Sowing the Seeds of Change: American Women’s Rhetorical Practices, 1828-1838.

This text makes visible the rhetorical practices of five women—Frances Wright, Maria Stewart, Lydia Maria Child, Sarah Grimké, and Angelina Grimké Weld—whose public written and oral activities from 1827 to 1838 served as inspiration for the work of subsequent activists during both ante- and postbellum America.