Renea Frey
Writing Program Director; Associate Professor, English Department
Renea Frey received her BA and MA from Northern Kentucky University where she studied English Literature, and her PhD from Miami University in the field of Composition and Rhetoric. She is the Director of Xavier's Writing Program and teaches Rhetoric, Professional Writing, Writing as Social Action, Composition Tutoring, Rhetoric of Darwinism, and Theories and Research in Writing. Her scholarly work examines the rhetorical strategies of silenced populations who choose to speak out despite risks, women's nineteenth-century rhetorical practices, composing and teaching in digital spaces, and using empathy as inventional practice.
UNDERGRADUATE MENTORING
Co-sponsor (along with Dr. Jeff Gerding) Eigel Undergraduate Research Fellow to participate in two-year long study of community engaged service learning. Support undergraduate research intern focused on Jesuit rhetorical practices via archival study.
Expertise
Classical rhetoric and rhetorical theory, parrhesia (speaking truth to power), nineteenth-century science and women’s rhetoric, composition, pedagogy, multimodal composing.
First Year at Xavier
2015
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Degrees
- PhD, Miami University;MA, Northern Kentucky University;BA, Northern Kentucky University
Publications
- ?Kairotic Design: Building Flexible Networks for Online Composition.? Making Space: Writing Instruction, Infrastructure, and Multiliteracies. With Lance Cummings, Ryan Ireland, Caitlyn Martin, Heidi McKee, Jason Palmeri, and Jim Porter. Michigan University Press. In press.