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Roxanne Mountford is a Professor and Chair of the Department of English at The University of Oklahoma, where she also directs the First-Year Composition Program. She holds a PhD in English/Rhetoric and Composition from The Ohio State University (1991), an MA from the same institution, and a BA in English from Malone College with honors. Her academic work focuses on rhetoric in U.S. contexts, particularly gender issues in rhetorical education, the history of composition studies, and interdisciplinary approaches to communication arts.
Her research spans theoretical, ethnographic, and historical methods, culminating in publications like The Gendered Pulpit (2003) and Women’s Ways of Making It in Rhetoric and Composition (2008). She co-edited Rhetoric and Writing Studies in the New Century (2017), and co-authored the influential Mount Oread Manifesto (2014) calling for pedagogical reforms in speech and writing education.
Prof. Mountford has served on the faculties of Rensselaer Polytechnic, the University of Arizona, and the University of Kentucky, where she developed the Writing Program into a department. Her awards include the 1999 University of Arizona Foundation Teaching Award and the 1999 Faculty Center for Instructional Innovation Award for technology integration in education. She currently co-chairs the 2018 Rhetoric Society of America Conference and leads efforts to document the University of Oklahoma Model of Rhetorical Education.
