Janet Carey Eldred

PhD, English

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign


Director, Writing Center

Office: 1239 POT
Phone: 257-6981
E-mail: eldred@uky.edu
Web: home page



[Photo by Lexy Carey]



Areas of Specialty:

  • Essay and Creative Nonfiction
  • Literacy Studies
  • History of U.S. Composition and Rhetoric
  • Instructional Technology
  • Editing and Publishing

Selected Publications:

  • "Technology as Teacher" (with Lisa Toner). To appear in Teaching Writing with Computers: An Introduction, eds. Pamela Takayoshi & Brian Huot (Houghton Mifflin).
  • Imagining Rhetoric: Composing Women of the Early United States (with Peter Mortensen). University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002.
  • "Modern Fidelity." Fourth Genre 3.2 (2001): 55-69.
  • Children at All Costs. Literal Latte 4.5 (1998) [Roy T. Ames Memorial Essay Award (2nd), Judge: Phillip Lopate], 8-12.
  • "Persuasion Dwelt on Her Tongue": Women's Civic Rhetoric in Early America (with Peter Mortensen). College English 60.2 (1998): 173-88.
  • "Figuring Culture and Literacy in Cather's 'Paul's Case.'" Journal of Narrative and Life History 3.2-3 (1993): 299-318.




Current Projects:

  • "Composition." To appear in Labor, Writing Technologies, and the Shaping of Composition in the Academy, eds. Pamela Takayoshi & Patricia Sullivan.
  • "‘Girlhood,’ Literacy, and the Transformation of American ‘Womanhood’ in the early U.S." To appear in Girls and Literacy in the U.S.: A Historical Sourcebook, ed. Jane Greer (Part of ABC-CLIO reference series, Childhood and Youth: Studies in History and Culture)
  • Composition: Essays—Academic, Personal, & Public