People
Gesa Kirsch
Gesa E. Kirsch is Professor of English at Bentley University, Waltham MA and a Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign for Spring 2010.
Research Interests
Feminism and composition, ethics, qualitative research methods, archival research and methodology, and women’s rhetorical practice in the progressive era.
Publications
Ethical Dilemmas in Feminist Research: The Politics of Location, Interpretation, and Publication (SUNY 1999);
Women Writing the Academy: Audience, Authority, and Transformation (SIUP, 1994);
Editor: Beyond the Archives: Research as a Lived Process (Southern Illinois UP, 2008).
Current Projects
With Dr. Jacqueline Jones Royster, Tectonic Shifts in Feminist Rhetorical Practice, a book which examines the impact of new feminist research on rhetorical traditions.