Shevaun Watson
Assistant Professor
Office: 201 Humanities Office Building
(803) 777-2052
swatson@mailbox.sc.edu
Education
Ph.D., Miami University, Rhetoric and Composition, 2003
Current CV
Specialization Areas
- Rhetoric and Composition
- History of Rhetoric/Historiography
- Early African American Rhetoric
- Early American Education
- Writing Centers
- Writing-Across-the-Curriculum
Recent Courses
See Course Descriptions for detailed information.
- ENGL 460 Advanced Writing Workshop
- ENGL 287 Introduction to American Literature
- ENGL 890 Early African American Rhetoric (890)
- ENGL 387 Introduction to Rhetoric
- ENGL 790 Inroduction to Composition Studies
Current Research Project(s)
"Testifying: Rhetorical Bodies and the Making of Truth Among Slaves and Free Blacks in the Early Republic."
"Plantation 101: The History and Rhetoric of Slavery in Composition Studies."
"The Problematics of Testimony, Truth, and Rhetorical Silence in
Slave Trials."
Awards
Association of the History of Rhetoric Society: Best Dissertation 2004
Rhetoric Society of America: Best Dissertation 2005
English Department Teaching Award 2006
Selected Publications
“From Graduate Student to Writing Administrator: Substantive Training for a Sustainable Future.” Culture Shock and the Practice of the Profession: Training the Next Wave in Rhetoric and Composition. Ed. Virginia Anderson and Susan Romano. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton, 2006. (With Julie Eckerle and Karen Rowan.)
“Professing ‘Western’ Literacy: Globalization and Women’s Education at the Western College for Women.” Women and Literacy: Inquiries for a New Century. Ed. Beth Daniell and Peter Mortensen. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006. (With Morris Young.)
Review, Imagining Rhetoric: Composing Women of the Early United States by Janet Carey Eldred and Peter Mortensen. Rhetorica 21.4 (2004): 312-14.
“IWCA Graduate Student Position Statement.” Writing Center Journal 23.1 (2002): 59-61. (With Julie Eckerle and Karen Rowan.)
“Complicating the Classics: Neoclassical Rhetorics in Two Early
American Schoolbooks.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 31.4
(2001): 45-66.
Presentations
“Enslaved Teachers and Plantation Literacy: The Case of the Charleston
‘Negroe
School.’” Society of Early Americanists, Alexandria VA, 2004.
“Habeas Corpus: Embodied Testimony in Slave Trials.” CCCC,
San Francisco, 2004.
“‘Your Daughters Shall Prophecy’: The Making of a Black
Female Preacher in Jarena Lee’s Self-Writing and Evangelizing.”
Rhetoric Society of America, Austin, 2004
“Silence on the Stand: The Problematics of Rhetorical Silence and
the Case of Denmark Vesey.” CCCC, San Antonio, 2004
“Unsettled Cities: Re-Placing Rhetorical History.” MLA, San
Diego, 2003
“‘That Won’t Work in My Center’: Putting the IWCA
Graduate Student Position Statement to Work.” International Writing
Center Association, Hershey PA, 2003
“‘Mother’ Bethel: Women, Literacy, and the First A.M.E. Church.” CCCC, New York, 2003
“The Making of an Insurrectionist: The Trial of Denmark Vesey.” Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, Louisville, 2002
“‘To Train Up an American Child’: Neoclassical Models of Citizenship in Early American Readers.” Rhetoric Society of America, Las Vegas, 2002
“Tracing the Rhetorical Paths of Early America: The Case of Caleb Bingham's American Preceptor.” CCCC, Chicago, 2002
“Composing Identities: The Epistolary Practices of Judith Sargent Murray.” International Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Decatur IL, 2001
“Jefferson Not in America: Identity and Liminality in the Early Republic.” Society of Early Americanists, Norfolk VA, 2001.