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Tammie Kennedy

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Tammie Kennedy, Ph.D.

Tammie Kennedy, Ph.D.

  • Associate Professor

email:
tmkennedy@unomaha.edu
office:
  • 189G ASH
office phone:
402.554.3367

Additional Information

Teaching Awards

  • Outstanding Teaching and Instructional Creativity Award (OTICA), NU, 2018
  • Excellence in Teaching Award, UNO, 2017
  • College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Outstanding Teacher Award, UNO, 2017

Education

Ph.D., MA, University of Arizona
MS, Illinois State University
BS, Illinois State University

Research Areas

  • Rhetorical Theory and History
  • Writing Theory and Pedagogies
  • Cultural Rhetorics/Studies—Feminist; Queer; Whiteness/Race Rhetorics
  • Memory Studies
  • Rhetoric and Film
  • Interdisciplinary Studies

Teaching Areas

  • Exploratory Studies/Interdisciplinary Studies
  • Rhetorical Theory and History
  • Writing Theory and Pedagogies
  • Rhetorical Memory
  • Feminist, Queer, and Race/Whiteness Studies
  • Film Studies
  • Creative Non-fiction—memoir, graphic memoir, lyrical essay

Recent Publications

“Conspiracies and Religion in Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code.” Critical Insights: Conspiracy. Ed. James Plath. Salem P, 2020: 3-20.

From the Heartland: Critical Reading and Writing at UNO.
4th edition (with Maggie Christensen). Fountainhead Press: Southlake, TX, 2020.

Rhetorics of Whiteness: Postracial Hauntings in Popular Culture, Social Media, and Education
(co-edited with Joyce Irene Middleton and Krista Ratcliffe). Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2017.
Winner: 2018 Conference on College Composition and Communication Outstanding Edited Book Award

“Oxymoronic Whiteness: From the Whitehouse to Ferguson” (with Joyce Irene Middleton and Krista Ratcliffe). Rhetorics of Whiteness: Postracial Hauntings in Popular Culture, Social Media, and Education. 2017: 171-186.

 “Boxed Wine Feminisms: The Rhetoric of Women’s Wine Drinking in The Good Wife” Food, Feminisms, and Rhetorics. Ed. Melissa Goldthwaite. Carbondale, IL: SIUP, 2017: 171-180.

“Comics and Composition, Comics as Composition: Navigating Production and Consumption” (with Jessi Thomsen and Erica Trabold). Composition Studies 43.1 (Spring 2015): 183-200.

 “A Pedagogy for the Ethics of Remembering: Producing Public Memory for the Women’s Archive Project” (with Angelika Walker). Pedagogies of Public Memory: Museums, Memorials, and Archives as Sites for Teaching Writing. Eds. Jane Greer and Laurie Grobman. New York: Routledge, 2015. 91-104.

 “Show, Don’t Tell: Using Graphic Narratives to Teach Descriptive Writing” (with Tracey D. Menten). Creative Composition: Inspiration and Techniques for Writing Instruction. Eds. Danita Berg and Lori A. May. Multilingual Matters, 2015. 154-168.

“Sustaining White Homonormativity: The Kids are All Right as Public Pedagogy.” Journal of Lesbian Studies 18.2 (Summer 2014): 118-32.

“Smaller Boxes.” Emrys Journal 30 (2013):  47-49.

 “Mapping ‘Memoryscapes’: Reconfiguring the Theoretical Terrain of Rhetoric and Memory” JAC: Journal for Interdisciplinary Study of Rhetoric, Culture, and Politics 33.3-4 (Fall 2013): 763-81.

“Mary Magdalene and the Politics of Public Memory: Interrogating The Da Vinci Code.” Feminist Formations 24.2 (Aug. 2012): 120-139.

 “Dead Babies Photo.” Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Non-Fiction 36 (May 2011).

“Reading, Writing, and Thinking about Disability Issues” (with Tracey D. Menten). English Journal 100.2 (Nov. 2010): 61-67.

Dr. Kennedy's other administrative responsibilities include serving as Editor for the UNO Women’s Archive Project.

Additional Information

Teaching Awards

  • Outstanding Teaching and Instructional Creativity Award (OTICA), NU, 2018
  • Excellence in Teaching Award, UNO, 2017
  • College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Outstanding Teacher Award, UNO, 2017

Education

Ph.D., MA, University of Arizona
MS, Illinois State University
BS, Illinois State University

Research Areas

  • Rhetorical Theory and History
  • Writing Theory and Pedagogies
  • Cultural Rhetorics/Studies—Feminist; Queer; Whiteness/Race Rhetorics
  • Memory Studies
  • Rhetoric and Film
  • Interdisciplinary Studies

Teaching Areas

  • Exploratory Studies/Interdisciplinary Studies
  • Rhetorical Theory and History
  • Writing Theory and Pedagogies
  • Rhetorical Memory
  • Feminist, Queer, and Race/Whiteness Studies
  • Film Studies
  • Creative Non-fiction—memoir, graphic memoir, lyrical essay

Recent Publications

“Conspiracies and Religion in Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code.” Critical Insights: Conspiracy. Ed. James Plath. Salem P, 2020: 3-20.

From the Heartland: Critical Reading and Writing at UNO.
4th edition (with Maggie Christensen). Fountainhead Press: Southlake, TX, 2020.

Rhetorics of Whiteness: Postracial Hauntings in Popular Culture, Social Media, and Education
(co-edited with Joyce Irene Middleton and Krista Ratcliffe). Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2017.
Winner: 2018 Conference on College Composition and Communication Outstanding Edited Book Award

“Oxymoronic Whiteness: From the Whitehouse to Ferguson” (with Joyce Irene Middleton and Krista Ratcliffe). Rhetorics of Whiteness: Postracial Hauntings in Popular Culture, Social Media, and Education. 2017: 171-186.

 “Boxed Wine Feminisms: The Rhetoric of Women’s Wine Drinking in The Good Wife” Food, Feminisms, and Rhetorics. Ed. Melissa Goldthwaite. Carbondale, IL: SIUP, 2017: 171-180.

“Comics and Composition, Comics as Composition: Navigating Production and Consumption” (with Jessi Thomsen and Erica Trabold). Composition Studies 43.1 (Spring 2015): 183-200.

 “A Pedagogy for the Ethics of Remembering: Producing Public Memory for the Women’s Archive Project” (with Angelika Walker). Pedagogies of Public Memory: Museums, Memorials, and Archives as Sites for Teaching Writing. Eds. Jane Greer and Laurie Grobman. New York: Routledge, 2015. 91-104.

 “Show, Don’t Tell: Using Graphic Narratives to Teach Descriptive Writing” (with Tracey D. Menten). Creative Composition: Inspiration and Techniques for Writing Instruction. Eds. Danita Berg and Lori A. May. Multilingual Matters, 2015. 154-168.

“Sustaining White Homonormativity: The Kids are All Right as Public Pedagogy.” Journal of Lesbian Studies 18.2 (Summer 2014): 118-32.

“Smaller Boxes.” Emrys Journal 30 (2013):  47-49.

 “Mapping ‘Memoryscapes’: Reconfiguring the Theoretical Terrain of Rhetoric and Memory” JAC: Journal for Interdisciplinary Study of Rhetoric, Culture, and Politics 33.3-4 (Fall 2013): 763-81.

“Mary Magdalene and the Politics of Public Memory: Interrogating The Da Vinci Code.” Feminist Formations 24.2 (Aug. 2012): 120-139.

 “Dead Babies Photo.” Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Non-Fiction 36 (May 2011).

“Reading, Writing, and Thinking about Disability Issues” (with Tracey D. Menten). English Journal 100.2 (Nov. 2010): 61-67.

Dr. Kennedy's other administrative responsibilities include serving as Editor for the UNO Women’s Archive Project.

Additional Information

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