Randall Roorda
Associate Professor and Director of the Writing Program
Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Email: rroorda@uky.edu
Phone: 257-1033
Office: 1251 Patterson Office Tower
Research
Areas of Specialty:
- Composition and Rhetoric
- Environmental Literature and Discourse
- American Nature Writing
- Ecocriticism
- Literary Nonfiction
Selected Publications
- Dramas of Solitude: Narratives of Retreat in American Nature Writing, State University of New York Press, 1998.
- “Wilderness Wives: Domestic Economy and Women’s Participation in Nature,” Women and the Canadian Environment, ed. R. Raglon and C. Sandilands, University of British Columbia Press, forthcoming.
- “Nearly Dead: East Coast Naturalists Retire to Santa Barbara,” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 14.4 (Fall 2001) 67-73.
- “Great Divides: Rhetorics of Literacy and Orality,” Ecocomposition: Theoretical and Pedagogical Approaches, ed. S. Dobrin and C. Weisser, SUNY Press, 2001, 97-116.
- “White Tassel: A Family Trip to Killarney,” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 7.1 (Winter 2000), 171-82.
- “Sites and Senses of Writing in Nature,” College English 59.4 (April 1997), 385-407.