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Wendy S. Hesford, Associate Professor

Department of English: http://english.osu.edu/ .


(Associate Professor) Ph.D., New York University: Rhetorical theory; visual rhetoric; composition theory, human rights literature and film; critical pedagogy; autobiography criticism; transnational feminist studies. Author of Framing Identities: Autobiography and the Politics of Pedagogy (University of Minnesota Press, 1999) winner of the 1999 W. Ross Winterowd Book Award; co-editor with Wendy Kozol of two collections Haunting Violations: Feminist Criticism and the Crisis of the "Real" (University of Illinois Press, 2001) and Just Advocacy? Women's Human Rights, Transnational Feminisms, and The Politics of Representation, (Rutgers University Press, 2005); and Rhetorical Visions: Reading and Writing in a Visual Culture, a textbook co-authored with Brenda Brueggemann (Prentice Hall, 2007).

Hesford's second single-authored book, Spectacular Rhetorics: Human Rights, Feminisms, and the Transnational Imaginary is forthcoming from Duke University Press. Among her other current projects is a scholarly collection "Realistic Wrongs: Questions of Evidence in Human Rights Work" (edited with Andrew Herscher).

She is the recepient of numerous awards and grants, including a NEH Summer Seminar fellowship, 2007 Visiting Scholar at Columbia University's Center for the Study of Human Rights, OSU Seed Grant, OSU Research Enhancement Grant, FTAD Seed Grants, several Coca-Cola Critical Difference for Women Grants, and the Modern Language Association's Florence Howe essay award. She has published essays in various journals, including PMLA, Biography, College English, JAC, and TDR: Journal of Performance Studies, among others. She is the current president of the Women's Caucus of the Modern Language Association.