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Edith M. Baker
Office: 352 Bradley Hall
Phone: (309) 677-2448
E-mail: edith@bumail.bradley.edu
Edith M. Baker joined Bradley University in 1995 as a Lecturer in the English Department; in 1999, she was hired as a Rhetoric and Composition Specialist. In 2005, Edith became an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Bradley University. From 1997-2002, she directed the Writing Across the Curriculum Program and is presently the Coordinator of Composition. Before she became part of the Bradley community, she taught at Stephens College, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and Yavapai College in Arizona. Her expertise is in rhetoric and composition, American literature, and women and literature. She teaches American Writers, Western Civilization, Freshman Composition, Advanced Composition, Native American Literature, and the graduate course in the "Theory and Practice of Teaching Composition" (ENG 580). She delivered a graduate course in "The American West as Symbol and Myth" in Fall, 2004.
Edith holds a B.A. from Cornell College, a M.A. from the University of Virginia, and a Ph.D. in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English from the University of Arizona. Her research interests combine theory, ethnographic studies, American literature, and the teaching of composition. Her most recent publication is jointly authored with Susan Berry Brill de Ramirez in Organization and the Environment (June 2005) and is on environmental justice in selected writings of Leslie Silko. With co-editor Linda Bergmann of Purdue University, Edith has edited a scholarly collection of articles on the relationships between literature and composition (Composition and/or Literature: The End(s) of Education, NCTE Press, 2006).
In 1994 she received a NEH independent study grant to research the myths of the West. She has presented at more than eighty national conferences and published book review essays in Teaching English in the Two-Year College. She was also a contributing writer to the textbook Peoples and Civilizations and contributing bibliographer to the 1988 CCC Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric. In the summer of 1996 she and Henry Wilson completed a survey of writing across the curriculum at Bradley University.