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Education:- Ph.D. in English, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1990 (Dissertation: “The Anxiety of Eloquence: Rhetoric, the Public Sphere, and Social Difference in Antebellum America.” Director: Susan Jarratt, Emeritus Professor of Comparative Literatures, University of California, Irvine.)
- M.A. in English, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, 1992
- B.A. cum laude in English, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, 1990
- Coursework toward the B.A., Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 1988-89
Dr. Jill Swiencicki is an associate professor of English and former director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at St. John Fisher University. She is the co-editor (2020-2024) of The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal, a peer-review journal featuring feminist research in the Greater Rochester region. Swiencicki teaches courses in rhetoric, writing, literature, and gender studies. Her research focuses on the rhetoric of social justice and civil rights movements, feminist activism, and writing studies. Her work appears in such journals as Women’s Studies in Communication, College English, Peitho, Liberal Education, and Prompt, as well as the edited collections Feminist Connections, Going Public, and Rhetorical Education in America. Since 2015, she has volunteered at Connect and Breathe.
Selected Publications
- Being a Feminist Community during a Pandemic: Our Editors’ Welcome, The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal, December 2021. Co-authored with Lisa Cunningham and Mary Graham.
- "Solidarity Rhetoric in Senator Wendy Davis’s Texas Filibuster: Brokering Reproductive Justice," Rights and Justice for All: Rhetorics of Reproductive Politics. Eds. Heather Brooke Adams and Nancy Myers, manuscript under review.
- Writing as Memory Work: Teaching the Civic Deliberations over Monument Removals, Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments, January 2022. Co-authored with Barbara Lowe.
- "Rhetorics of Invitation and Refusal in Terry Tempest Williams’s 'The Open Space of Democracy,'" Inviting Understanding: A Portrait of Invitational Rhetoric, 2020. Reprint.
- “Seneca Falls, Strategic Mythmaking, and a Feminist Politics of Relation,” Feminist Connections: Rhetorical Strategies from the Suffragists to the Cyberfeminists, 2020. Co-authored with Maria Brandt, Barbara LeSavoy, and Deborah Uman. Honorable Mention, Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award, 2022.
- “‘Consent Trumps Everything’: The Clothesline Art Project and the Election Politics of Sexual Assault,” Crafting Dissent: Handicraft as Protest from the American Revolution to the Pussyhats, 2019. Co-authored with Shannon DeHoff.
- Rhetorics of Invitation and Refusal in Terry Tempest Williams’s The Open Space of Democracy, Women’s Studies in Communication, June 2015.
- The ‘Town Hall Meeting’ and the Involved Stance: Imagining a Self through Public Sphere Pedagogy, Liberal Education, 2011. Co-authored with Thia Wolf, Chris Fosen.
- Students, Faculty, and ‘Sustainable’ WPA Work, Going Public: What Writing Programs Learn from Engagement, 2010. Co-authored with Thia Wolf and Chris Fosen.
- The Rhetoric of Awareness Narratives, College English, March 2006.