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Bridget O'Rourke is a Professor and Director of the Writing Program at the Department of English, Elmhurst University. She specializes in how rhetoric and literacy intersect with immigrant and working-class experiences in the 20th century, focusing on their roles in social reform and self-transformation.
Her research explores the use of rhetoric and literacy by marginalized communities to enact change. Key publications include studies of the Federal Writers’ Project’s industrial folklore and Hull-House’s experiential education practices.
Publications include “Bottom Dogs and Might-Have-Beens: The Industrial Folklore of the Federal Writers’ Project” (in The Folklore Historian) and “‘To Learn from Life Itself’: Experience and Education at Hull-House” (in Jane Addams and the Call to Education, ed. David Schaafsma).
