English Department
Advisor, Rhetoric and Composition Minor
Associate Professor
Ph.D., The University of California, Davis
Fields: Rhetoric and Composition, Native American/Indigenous Studies, Writing Assessment, Early American Literature
Email: sklotz@holycross.edu
Office Phone: 508-793-3965
Office: O'Kane 459
Office Hours: W 3:30-4:30; F 12:30-1:30, and by appt.
Box: 47A
Biography
My research interests are rooted in understanding the role of literacy in American nation-building and using rhetorical theory as a lens to understand race and racialization in the United States. In 2021, I published a book on Native American students鈥 writing from the first off-reservation boarding school located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Alongside my historical and archival research, I have an abiding interest in our writing classrooms and the ways that settler-colonial ideas about language assimilation continue to impact teaching practices today.
Classes
- Introduction to Academic Writing
- Intermediate Academic Writing
- Rhetoric
- Eloquentia Perfecta: Writing and Speaking for the Common Good
- Native American Expressive Traditions
- Indigenous Speculative Fiction
Recent Work
(Utah State University Press, 2021)
鈥淢any Voices, One Page: Poetic Innovation and Intercultural Protest in 鈥楾he Cherokee Mother.鈥欌 Lydia Sigourney and the Poetics of Dissent a Special Issue of ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance. Ed. Elizabeth Petrino and Mary Lou Kete. 69.3 (Fall 2023). 329-360.
Podcast episode:
鈥淒rawing on Our Jesuit Mission to Make the Case for Rhetoric: A Profile of the Rhetoric and Composition Minor at 海角社区.鈥 Co-author Claire Jackson. Composition Forum. 51 (Spring 2023).
鈥淐rafting a Writing Response Community Through Contract Grading.鈥 Co-author Kristina Reardon. Journal of Response to Writing, 8(2), 1鈥21. 2022.
鈥淐ontract Grading as Anti-Racist Praxis in the Community College Context.鈥 Co-author Carl Whithaus. . Betsy Gilliland and Meryl Siegal eds. University of Michigan Press. 2021.
鈥淧ictograph as Epitaph: Reading Algonquian Pictography in the Removal Period.鈥 Early American Literature. 55.1 (Spring 2020): 177-207.