Jill Swiencicki

Associate Professor, English
School of Arts and Sciences

Jill Swiencicki

Areas of Expertise

  • Politics
  • Rhetoric
  • Feminist studies
  • Activism and social justice
  • Gender studies

Bio

Jill Swiencicki is an expert in the history of rhetoric, with a focus on American rhetorics of social reform movements from the antebellum period, the progressive period, and the present time.

Her work appears in journals including Women’s Studies in Communication, College English, Peitho, Liberal Education, and Prompt, as well as the edited collections of Feminist Connections, Going Public, and Rhetorical Education in America. Since 2015, she has been a volunteer at Connect and Breathe, a secular, nonjudgmental talkline in the U.S. for women to express their feelings after abortion.

Swiencicki can speak on topics including reproductive rights and justice, antiracism and activism, feminism and intersectionality, public monuments and public memory, and 19th century suffrage and abolitionist history.