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Pamela VanHaitsma is an Associate Professor of Communication Arts & Sciences and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Pennsylvania State University, and holds the Sherwin Early Career Professorship in the Rock Ethics Institute. She teaches courses on rhetorical theory, gender and communication, archival methodologies, and queer/feminist rhetorics. Her interdisciplinary research bridges rhetoric, archives, and gender/sexuality studies, with a focus on LGBTQ+ epistolary practices and queer public memory.
VanHaitsma earned a B.A. from Saginaw Valley State University (2000), two M.A. degrees from Ohio State University (2002) and San Francisco State University (2009), and a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh (2014). Her scholarly works include Queering Romantic Engagement in the Postal Age (2019) and The Erotic as Rhetorical Power (2024). She has been recognized with awards including the Charles Kneupper Award (2015) and the Randy Majors Memorial Award (2021).
Her current research project, supported by a Penn State Humanities Institute fellowship, explores Rachel Carson’s legacy through queer and intersectional environmentalism frameworks. She also writes about academic infertility and assisted reproduction, co-authoring “Ticking Clocks” (2023). Her work emphasizes archival praxis, feminist historiography, and the intersections of gender, sexuality, and environmental justice.
VanHaitsma’s courses, such as the Rachel Carson Seminar, integrate feminist, queer, and disability studies to examine environmental rhetoric. She advocates for intersectional approaches to environmental justice and public memory, often collaborating with digital humanities projects to recover marginalized histories.
