Directory
Megan Donelson
Lecturer
Full-Time Faculty
College of Arts and Sciences: English
Degrees
- Ph.D., English, Middle Tennessee State University, 2018
- MFA, Writing and Poetics, Naropa University, 2009
- B.A., English and Spanish, College of Wooster, 2007
Research interests
- Rhetoric of health and medicine
- Rhetoric of risk
- Rhetoric of pregnancy, birth and motherhood
- Health equity
- Health literacy
Courses taught
- ENG 373
- ENG 366
Selected publications
"The First Rule about Writing Group: How a Virtual Writing Group Changed My Trajectory Without Saying a Word." In <<Academic Mothers Building Online Communities>>, forthcoming.
Review: Infertility: Tracing the history of a transformative term by Robin Jensen. Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, vol. 3, iss. 4, 2021. Access via RHM website.
“Towards Psychagōgia: Emotion and Metacognition in the Composition Classroom.” Chapter in edited collection Writing as a Way of Staying Human in a Time that Isn’t edited by Nate Mickelson. Vernon Press, 2018.
Review: Practically Joking by Moira Marsh. New Directions in Folklore, vol. 14, no. 1/2, 2016.
Selected presentations
Pandemic Pregnancy: Overlapping chronotopes, overwhelming risk. Rhetoric Society of America 20th Biennial Conference, May 2022.
2021 Health Humanities Consortium International Conference. Penn State College of Medicine. Virtual, March 25-27, 2021.
Reproductive Ethics Conference. Institute for Bioethics and Health Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas. Virtual, April 8-9, 2021.
“Psychagōgia: Teaching Emotional Self Awareness as Feminist Activism.” Poster presented at Feminisms and Rhetorics, November 2019.
“Threshold as Frontier: FYC for First Generation Students.” Presented at Annual Convention for the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, October 2019.
“Crossing the Line: Emphasizing the Threshold for First-Generation College Students.” Presented at Summer Conference of The Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning (NCTE), June 2019.
“So You Think You Can Liaise: An Honest Examination of Academic Liaison Relationship Building.” Presented in collaboration with Calantha Tillotson at the Oklahoma Library Association Annual Conference, March 2019.
“Plato’s Psychagōgia in the Composition Classroom.” Poster presented at CCCC Annual Convention, Kansas City, March 2018.
“Psychagōgia: A Pedagogy for Peace.” Presented at SAMLA Conference in Jacksonville, Fla., November 2016.
“Did you ever have a sister?: Caddy Compson’s Silence in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury.” Presented at the Faulkner and Hurston Conference at Southeastern Missouri State University, October 2014.