Angela Green is the Writing Enriched Curriculum Core Lecturer and the LIBA 102 Curriculum Chair. She joined the University of Mississippi in 2012 after three years as Asst. Professor and QEP Writing Specialist at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia. From 2006-2009 she assisted the Director of the Writing Intensive Program at the University of Georgia.

Education

PhD, The University of Georgia, English with concentrations in Rhetoric and Composition and 19th and 20th Century American Literature
BA, The University of Texas, English

Publications

“From the Outside In: Creating a Culture of Writing Through a QEP,” in Reclaiming Accountability: Using theWork of Re/Accreditation to Improve Writing Programs (forthcoming book to be published by Utah State University Press)

“The Politics of Literacy: Countering the Rhetoric of Accountability in the Spellings Commission Report and Beyond,” College Composition and Communication, September 2009.

Research Interests

–Writing Across the Curriculum/Writing in the Disciplines
–Ancient and modern rhetoric
–The politics of higher education
–Literary and rhetorical theory

Wendy Goldberg is a core instructor in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of Mississippi.  The six years prior to joining UM, she taught composition and speech at The United States Coast Guard Academy (New London, CT). She has also taught composition and literature courses at the University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT) and Three Rivers Community College (Norwich, CT) as well as summer courses at the Johns Hopkins’ Center for Talented Youth.  She has presented and published papers on comics and anime and is currently the submissions editor for Mechademia, an annual forum for critical work on Japanese manga, anime, and related arts.

Education

ABD – English with a concentration in medieval literature — University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
MA — English — University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
BA  — English with a minor in Writing — Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, GA.

Research Interests

– Electronic portfolios and assessment
– Comics and manga

Publications

“Blade of the Immortal.”  Critical Survey of Graphic Novels: Manga.Ed. Bart H. Beaty and Stephen Weiner. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2012.

Entries for the Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels. Greenwood Press. Editor M. Keith Booker, May 2010.

(Including entries on comics titles: Lone Wolf and Cub, Fun Home, and Strange Tales; artists and writers: Bill Sienkiewicz and Eddie Campbell).

“The Manga Phenomenon in America.” Manga: An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives. Ed. Toni Johnson-Woods. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, April 2010.

“Transcending the Victim’s History: Takahata Isao’s Grave of the Fireflies.” Mechademia #4. Ed. Frenchy Lunning. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009.