Master Lecturer and Director of Writing Placement and Support
English

Mary Beth Pennington

3032 BATTEN ARTS & LETTERS
NORFOLK, 23529

Ph.D. in English, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, (2010)

M.A. in English, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, (2004)

B.A. in Communications, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, (2000)

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Pennington, M. "Recipient of VMI Undergraduate Research Initiativeā€™s Integrating Undergraduate Research into the Curriculum Grant" $1,000. 2011 - 2011

Expertise

English/Grammar
Rhetoric and Composition

Research Interests

Disciplinary evolution of rhetoric and composition; reading instruction in the university; rhetorical and metacognitive instructional strategies

Articles

Pennington, M., Ritola, T. and Walzer, B. (2017). The Public Fallout of the Humanitiesā€™ Crisis: Critiquing the Public Turn in Rhetoric and Composition Studies. Rendezvous Journal of Arts and Letters (Crisis in the Humanities Special Edition) 43 (1).

Book Chapters

Pennington, M. (2016). Powerlessness Repurposed: The Feminist Ethos of Judy Bonds Rethinking Ethos: A Feminist Ecological Approach to Rhetoric (pp. 150-173) Carbondale IL: Southern Illinois University Press.
  • 2021: John R Broderick Diversity Champion Award (DCA) Winner (with Kristi Costello), ¾«¶«/Institutional Equity and Diversity
  • 2009: Graduate Student Essay Award for ā€œThe Persistence of Country: An Ethnographic Study and Reflection on Being Rural and Academicā€, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  • 2005: Oleta Norman Fellowship, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  • 2004: Phi Beta Kappa, Virginia Tech