Janet Carey Eldred University of Kentucky Professor Director, The U.K. Writing Initiative & the U.K. Writing Center Coordinator, Upper-Division Creative Nonfiction & Editing

History of Composition and Rhetoric Work in Progress Literate Zeal: Editing, Gender, and the Making of a New Yorker Ethos Drawing on histories of U.S. women’s rhetoric and theories of literacy, Literate Zeal analyzes archival sources, such as the editorial archives of The New Yorker. Literate Zeal argues that editors, including many graduates of women’s colleges, committed themselves with missionary zeal to a publishing culture in which high American letters and a passion for higher literacy became something to be consumed alongside haute couture. Forthcoming University of Pittsburgh Press. Completed Review of Carol Mattingly’s Appropriate[ing] Dress: Women’s Rhetorical Style in Nineteenth-Century America. Prose Style 25.2 (2002): 130-32. “A Few Patchwork Opinions”: Piecing Together Narratives of U.S. Girls’ Early National Schooling (with Peter Mortensen). In Girls and Literacy in America: Historical Perspectives to the Present. Jane Greer, ed. Santa Barbara, Denver, Oxford: ABC-CLIO. 23-50. "Persuasion Dwelt on Her Tongue": Women's Civic Rhetoric in Early America (with Peter Mortensen). College English 60.2 (1998): 173-88. Gender and Writing Instruction in Early America: Lessons from Didactic Fiction (with Peter Mortensen). Rhetoric Review 12.1 (1993): 25-53. Recognized as one of three outstanding essays in that volume. Monitoring Columbia's Daughters: Writing as Gendered Conduct (with Peter Mortensen). Rhetoric Society Quarterly 23.3-4 (1993): 46-69. Coming to Know a Century (with Peter Mortensen). College English 62.6 (2000): 747-55. [review] Contact Information 1215 P.O.T. University of Kentucky Lexington KY 40506 E-mail: eldred@uky.edu Phone: (859) 257-4831 (Writing Initiative) www.uky.edu/UGS/WritingInitiative Phone: (859) 257-1368 (Writing Center) www.uky.edu/AS/English/wc

Imagining Rhetoric: Composing Women of the Early United States (with Peter Mortensen). University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002. Rev. College English 67.4 (2005) by Thomas P. Miller & Joseph G. Jones Rev. Rhetoric Society Quarterly (Spring 2004) by Stacey E. Sheriff Rev. American Literature 76.4 (2004) by Matt Cohen & Melinda DiStefano Rev. Legacy 21.1 (2004) by Pattie Cowell Rev. College Composition & Communication 55.2 (2003) by Alice Gillam Rev. Rhetorica 21.4 (2003) by Shevaun E. Watson Rev. Journal of the Early Republic 23.1 (2003) by Lucia McMaho