Andrea Stover
Dr. Andrea Stover, Associate Professor and Graduate Program
Director, got her BA at the University of Vermont, her MA 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: stovera@mail.belmont.edu
phone: 615.460.6246
office: WHB 214
