People
Faculty
Lisa Suter
Titles
- Visiting Instructor
Education
- Ph.D., Miami University, Rhetoric and Composition (in progress)
- M.A., Wright State University, Composition and Rhetoric
- B.A., Wright State University, Modern Languages
Teaching Interests
- First-year composition
- Advanced composition
- Teacher training
- Women’s rhetoric(s) and/or visual rhetoric
Research Interests
- Rhetorical Historiography
- Women’s Rhetoric(s)
- Rhetorical Performance
- Embodied and Visual Rhetorics
Selected Publications
- “‘Who Among Us Are Willing to Go Through the Drill…?’: Women’s Oratorical Workouts in Late Nineteenth-Century Gymnasia.’ Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). San Francisco. March 2009.
- “’We Must Not Say It in Words:’ Embodied Rhetorical Silence in the Nineteenth-Century Delsarte Performance.’ Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). New York, NY. March 2007.
- “Speaking Through Windows: The Silent Rhetoric of Stained Glass at a Female Seminary in the Nineteenth Century.’ Fifth Biennial Feminisms(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference. Houghton, MI. October 2005.
- “When Rhetoric Was a Woman: The Medieval Iconography of the Lady Rhetoric.’ Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). San Antonio, TX. March 2004.
- “‘A Little Language Such as Lovers Use’: Color-Coding and Secret Ciphers to Vita in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando.’ 13th Annual Virginia Woolf Conference. Smith College: Northampton, MA. May 2003.
Work in Progress
My research consists of a recovery project which brings to light the late nineteenth-century American Delsarte movement. Albeit largely denigrated or overlooked by our field’s canonical histories, American Delsartism was a massive cultural phenomenon from the 1880s through the end of the century. What began in France as a science of gesture to assist professional (mainly male) orators and actors in their delivery came to the United States and transformed into an oratorical trend among women at the turn of the century that swept the nation. Women teaching oratory called it the New Elocution and believed it would soon usher in the New Woman.