Elissa Weeks Stogner

Writing Placement Assessment Coordinator, Senior Lecturer

Education

• PhD, University of California at Riverside (2010)

Research Interests

• Rhetoric and Composition
• Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
• Realism and Naturalism

Publications/Research Listings

Co-Authored Books and Contributions:

• Moore, Kathleen Muller, Susan Lan Cassel, and Elissa Weeks. Instructor’s Manual for Techniques for College Writing: The Thesis Statement and Beyond. Book Companion Website. Wadsworth Cengage, 2009. 
• Contributions to Instructor’s Resource Manual for The St. Martin’s Guide to Writing, 9th edition. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2010.

Recent Conference Presentations:

• “Bodies, Formed and Deformed: Rebecca Harding Davis’s Rewriting of American Identity Narratives.” American Literature Association Annual Conference. Boston, MA. 2011.
• “Reading the Rhetoric of American Realism.” Directions of Realism Graduate Conference. Johns Hopkins University Humanities Center. Baltimore, MD. 2011.