Andrea Stover
Dr. Andrea Stover, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, earned her B.A. at the University of Vermont, her M.A. in English Literature at Boston College, and her Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her extensive work in autobiography, memoir, and diary studies draws upon interests and concerns in both literature and composition.
She has taught courses in composition such as: "Storying: the American Experience: A Study in Writing and Genre," "From Speaking to Writing and Back Again: A Study of the Intersections between Orality and Literacy," and "Exploratory Writing: The Memoir." On the graduate level, she has taught "Women's Writing," "Writing the Unspeakable in Gothic Literature," and "Practical Literary Criticism."
Her dissertation, Resisting Privacy: Problems with Self-Representation in Journals and Diaries, analyzes the resistance to private writing experienced by writers ranging from first-year college students to Virginia Woolf. Publications include, "The Private Reclaimed: Redefining Public/Private Boundaries in the Composition Classroom" in Going Public: Student Writing as Public Text and "Using Student Publications: Developing Audience Awareness" in Notes in the Margins. She was also an assistant editor and contributing author for Teaching in Process: Multimedia Resources for Writing Teachers, a CD-ROM published by Houghton Mifflin.
email: Andrea Stover
phone: 615.460.6246
office: WHB 214
