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Peter Leslie Mortensen

Associate Professor

Research Interests

History of rhetoric and literacy in the U.S., qualitative study of literacy, research ethics

Education

  • Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1989
  • B.A., University of California, San Diego (Revelle College), 1983

Additional Campus Affiliations

Interim Dean Designate, College of Fine and Applied Arts
Director, Center for Writing Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor, English

Highlighted Publications

Daniell, B., & Mortensen, P. (Eds.) (2007). Women and Literacy: Local and Global Inquiries for a New Century. (NCTE-Routledge Research Series). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003064503

Eldred, J. C., & Mortensen, P. (2002). Imagining Rhetoric: Composing Women of the Early United States. (Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture). University of Pittsburgh Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5vkg2d

Mortensen, P., & Kirsch, G. E. (Eds.) (1996). Ethics and Representation in Qualitative Studies of Literacy. National Council of Teachers of English.

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Recent Publications

Eldred, J. C., & Mortensen, P. (2023). Returning to Literacy Narratives. College English, 85(6), 471-497. https://doi.org/10.58680/ce202332617

Mortensen, P. L. (2015). Afterword. In S. Webb-Sunderhaus, & K. Donehower (Eds.), Rereading Appalachia: Literacy, place, and cultural resistance (pp. 199-212). (Place matters: new directions in Appalachian studies). University Press of Kentucky. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt183pf7d.13

Mortensen, P. (2012). The work of illiteracy in the rhetorical curriculum. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 44(6), 761-786. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220272.2012.730282

Mortensen, P. (2012). Thirty-five questions. Advances in the History of Rhetoric, 15(1), 109-118. https://doi.org/10.1080/15362426.2012.657062

Anson, C., Cooper, M., Desai, G., Gere, A. R., Gilbert, P. K., Gilyard, K., Harris, J., Lee, V., Miller, S., Mortensen, P. L., Shumway, D., Sommers, N., & Vitanza, V. J. (2011). Symposium: How I Have Changed My Mind. College English, 74(2), 106-130. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23052355

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