Resume

• 2008

  Master's degree

  Rhetoric and Composition

  Graduate Student Senate

  Texas Christian University

  Classical Rhetoric

  U.S. Women of Colors

  Teaching Practicum

  Writing for Professions

  Feminist Theories

  Genre Theory

  Modern Rhetoric

  Rhetoric and Criticism

  Theory of Composition

  Pedagogy Certification: Teaching as a Reflective Practice

  Koehler Center

• 2005

  Master's degree

  Women's Studies/English

  Phi Kappa Phi

  Texas Woman's University

• 1102

  I have taught each of the classes offered in the UWRT series (1101

  and the Honors 1103). Descriptions of each are found here: http://writing.uncc.edu/first-year-writing

  Adjunct Professor

  Charlotte

  North Carolina Area

  UNC Charlotte

  Teaching first and second year writing classes; performing research and administrative tasks for professors in the department

  Texas Christian University

  Adjunct Faculty

  Taught three levels of english: developmental

  first

  and second year. The final level of english composition focuses on literature.

  Columbia College

  Adjunct Professor

  Central Piedmont Community College

  Queens University

  Charlotte

  NC

  I have taught gender communications classes

  writing for communication classes

  and rhetoric classes.

  Adjunct Professor

  I taught first year composition.

  Tarrant County College

• Legal Assistants

  Digital Media

  New Media

  Administrative Assistants

  Higher Education

  Women's Issues

  Organization

  Women's Studies

  Medical Transcription

  Cindy Sheehan: Mother of a Soldier

  Mother of a Movement

  For my Master's thesis

  I explored the relationship between Cindy Sheehan's peace activism

  her motherhood

  and her role in the media.

  Cindy Sheehan: Mother of a Soldier

  Mother of a Movement

  Through her peace work

  Cindy Sheehan helped bolster the U.S. antiwar movement. Relying on her identity as the mother of a soldier who was slain during active duty in Iraq

  Sheehan captured the media spotlight through increasingly outspoken and public ways that include the sit-ins she staged outside of President George W. Bush's ranch in Crawford

  Texas

  and the “Open Letter to George Bush” she published in November 2004. In this essay

  I examine the rhetoric surrounding Sheehan's peace activism and attend to the ways in which the rhetoric hinges on conflicting views about war

  motherhood

  and activism. Maternal activism is certainly not a new phenomenon. However

  media coverage of Sheehan provides ample evidence of the constantly shifting nature of definitions of “good” and “bad” mothering in early twenty-first-century America. Through an examination of Sheehan's own book

  Peace Mom

  and a book written to counter it

  American Mourning by Catherine Moy and Melanie Morgan

  I demonstrate the central role that discourses of motherhood play in Sheehan's ability to craft a maternal politics of peace.

  Cindy Sheehan and the Rhetoric of Motherhood - A Textual Analysis

  Cindy Sheehan is a peace activist who was moved to begin protesting the Iraq War after her son died fighting in Iraq in April 2004. The harsh criticism that she receives from many is due to her feminist stance and her refusal to accept the role of the “perfect mother.” My thesis provides background on Sheehan

  discusses the impact she had on the war in Iraq

  and examines how Sheehan uses her motherhood as a basis for her activism in her writings and speeches. I further explore the treatment Sheehan received from various media outlets

  discuss the positive and negative aspects of her approaches to her activism

  and make suggestions concerning how she could improve her activism to help end the Iraq War as well as to help further women’s rights.

  Jillian Duquaine-Watson

  Claire L. Sahlin

  Website

  My website is a repository for other projects I am working on

  as well as pedagogical tools and reflections.

  Knudson

  Laura

  Knudson

  Central Piedmont Community College

  Queens University

  Columbia College

  Texas Christian University

  UNC Charlotte

  Tarrant County College