Elizabeth Fleitz
Professor, English
McCluer Hall 219
(636) 627-2953
efleitz@lindenwood.edu
Biographical Information
Dr. Fleitz earned her Master of Arts degree in literary and textual studies from Bowling Green State University in 2005, completing a thesis on Margaret Atwood's early novel The Edible Woman. She also earned her Ph.D. from Bowling Green in rhetoric and writing, graduating in 2009. Her dissertation, titled The Multimodal Kitchen: Cookbooks as Women's Rhetorical Practice, drew on work begun by Patricia Bizzell, Cheryl Glenn, and others in making a space for women in the rhetorical tradition.
Upon graduation, Fleitz taught in the English department at Southeast Missouri State University from 2009 to 2011 and in the General Studies Writing Program at Bowling Green State University from 2011 to 2013, before being hired at Lindenwood. She is a professor of English at Lindenwood.
Academic Interests
Dr. Fleitz's academic interests include the following:
- Women's rhetorical practices
- Feminist studies
- Composition pedagogy
- Digital studies
- Graphic novels
- Rhetoric of video games
Courses Taught
Dr. Fleitz has taught the following courses:
- First-year Writing
- Academic Research
- Technical Writing
- Workplace/Business Writing
- Composition Pedagogy
- Graphic Novels
- Grammar
Publications
- Review of Tasteful Domesticity: Women’s Rhetoric & the American Cookbook 1790-1940. Peitho: The Journal of the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition 21.2 (Spring 2019) http://peitho.cwshrc.org/issue/21-2/
- "All Your Font Are Belong to Us: Gaming in the Late Age of Print." Type Matters: The Rhetoricity of Letterforms. Eds. Danielle Nicole DeVoss and Christopher Scott Wyatt. Anderson, SC: Parlor Press, 2017.
- “Teaching Digital Rhetoric in the Age of Fake News: Media Literacy and Source Evaluation in the First-Year Writing Classroom.” 15 Mar 2017. Blog Carnival 11. Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative
- Review of Type:Rider [video]. Kairos 22.1 (August 2017)
- Review of “I2: Preserving Spaces of Wonder in an Age of Surveillance: Getting Started with Digital Cryptography.” 2017. Sweetland DRC
- Word’s Worth 2016 Graduate Student Conference Keynote Address. “‘From Best Authorities’: Men, Women, and the Contested Ethos of American Cookbook Authorship, 1796-1860.” Illinois State University, March 18, 2016
- Review of “A.04: Reconsidering Professional Credentials of Writing Program Faculty.” Kairos 21(2)
- Review of “B2: Arguing in Type: On the Rhetoricity of Letterforms.” 2016. Sweetland DRC
- Podcast interview for Heritage Radio Network, Brooklyn, NY: Episode 231, “Feministing in the Kitchen.” Aired Monday, October 5, 2015
- “Material.” Peitho: The Journal of the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition. 25th CWSHRC Anniversary issue. Guest Eds. Jenn Fishman and Jessica Enoch. 18(1) (Fall/Winter 2015) http://peitho.cwshrc.org/issue/18-1/
- “My Dinner with Abed: Postmodernism, Pastiche, and Metaxy in ‘Critical Film Studies.’” A Sense of Community: Essays on the Television Series and Its Fandom. Ed. Ann-Gee Lee. Jefferson, NC: McFarland P, 2014.
- “I Had an Abortion: A Feminist Analysis of the Abortion Debate.” Harlot: A Revealing Look at the Arts of Persuasion 8 (Fall 2012)
- “Cooking Codes: Cookbook Discourses as Women’s Rhetorical Practice.” Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society 1(1) (Summer 2010)
