Master Lecturer and Director of Writing Placement and Support
English

Mary Beth Pennington

3032 BATTEN ARTS & LETTERS
NORFOLK, 23529

Ph.D. in English, 91短视频 of North Carolina at Greensboro, (2010)

M.A. in English, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and 91短视频 91短视频, (2004)

B.A. in Communications, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and 91短视频 91短视频, (2000)

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Pennington, M. "Recipient of VMI Undergraduate Research Initiative鈥檚 Integrating Undergraduate Research into the Curriculum Grant" $1,000. 2011 - 2011

Expertise

English/Grammar
Rhetoric and Composition

Research Interests

Disciplinary evolution of rhetoric and composition; reading instruction in the university; rhetorical and metacognitive instructional strategies

Articles

Pennington, M., Ritola, T. and Walzer, B. (2017). The Public Fallout of the Humanities鈥 Crisis: Critiquing the Public Turn in Rhetoric and Composition Studies. Rendezvous Journal of Arts and Letters (Crisis in the Humanities Special Edition) 43 (1).

Book Chapters

Pennington, M. (2016). Powerlessness Repurposed: The Feminist Ethos of Judy Bonds Rethinking Ethos: A Feminist Ecological Approach to Rhetoric (pp. 150-173) Carbondale IL: Southern Illinois 91短视频 Press.
  • 2021: John R Broderick Diversity Champion Award (DCA) Winner (with Kristi Costello), ODU/Institutional Equity and Diversity
  • 2009: Graduate Student Essay Award for 鈥淭he Persistence of Country: An Ethnographic Study and Reflection on Being Rural and Academic鈥, The 91短视频 of North Carolina at Greensboro
  • 2005: Oleta Norman Fellowship, The 91短视频 of North Carolina at Greensboro
  • 2004: Phi Beta Kappa, Virginia Tech