Betsy Verhoeven
English & Creative Writing
Education
- PHD, Univ of Denver
- MA, Oklahoma State Univ Stillwater
- BA, Oklahoma State Univ Stillwater
Associate Professor of English & Creative Writing
Contact Information
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Email Addressverhoeven@susqu.edu
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Phone Number570-372-4192
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Office LocationSeibert Hall
Verhoeven is the writing coordinator and an assistant professor of English. She teaches composition and rhetoric, including Writing and Thinking classes and upper-division courses in publishing and in the rhetoric of popular culture, American identity, and environmentalism. She is honored to hold a Winifred and Gustave Weber Fellowship in the Humanities.
Scholarly interests include the history of rhetoric, especially the newspaper rhetoric of women and laboring classes during the American Revolution. She recently published a paper in Rhetoric Society Quarterly on female editorialists of the revolutionary period and is drafting a book-length project on the vernacular rhetoric of a Boston newspaper, The Massachusetts Spy. While pursuing a Mellon postdoctoral fellowship at Duke University’s multi-disciplinary first-year writing program, she became interested in how writing varies across disciplines, and she is co-authoring an article with archeologist Christine Beaule, Ph.D., on variations in humanities and science approaches to presenting evidence in research papers.
- ENGL-100: Writing and Thinking
- ENGL-299: Professional & Civic Writing
- ENGL-385: Making Democracy Work
- FYSE-101: Creating Change
- FYSE-101: FYSE: Creating Change
- HONS-100: Thought
About Me
Verhoeven is the writing coordinator and an assistant professor of English. She teaches composition and rhetoric, including Writing and Thinking classes and upper-division courses in publishing and in the rhetoric of popular culture, American identity, and environmentalism. She is honored to hold a Winifred and Gustave Weber Fellowship in the Humanities.
Scholarly interests include the history of rhetoric, especially the newspaper rhetoric of women and laboring classes during the American Revolution. She recently published a paper in Rhetoric Society Quarterly on female editorialists of the revolutionary period and is drafting a book-length project on the vernacular rhetoric of a Boston newspaper, The Massachusetts Spy. While pursuing a Mellon postdoctoral fellowship at Duke University’s multi-disciplinary first-year writing program, she became interested in how writing varies across disciplines, and she is co-authoring an article with archeologist Christine Beaule, Ph.D., on variations in humanities and science approaches to presenting evidence in research papers.