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FRANCES J. RANNEY, Ph.D., is a full-time tenured member of the Wayne State University English Department faculty. She has been at WayneState since 1998, publishing widely on issues of particular interest to women. A former paralegal, Dr. Ranney studies legal issues using both feminist theory and classical rhetorical methods. Her book, titled Aristotle’s Ethics and Legal Rhetoric: An Analysis of Language Beliefs and the Law, studies one sexual harassment judicial opinion from the perspective of literary, economic, and rhetorical approaches to legal study. Her most recent work focuses on feminist approaches to archival method, particularly through rhetorical and fashion theory.
Dr. Ranney teaches composition courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels, including intermediate composition, technical communication, composition pedagogy, and rhetorical theory. She also has taught Women’s Studies theories and is the official advisor for independent study and capstone projects for Women’s Studies co-majors and minors. She is especially interested in providing service-learning projects for local non-profit agencies and Wayne State University programs through her writing classes.
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
(UNDER REVIEW):
“Depression in Detroit: One Woman Makes a Moral (Fashion) Statement.” Applies rhetorical and fashion theory to an archival file in which a woman links fashion to her acceptable class and gender status despite poverty and decline.
“A Case Study in Difference: An Elderly Woman Fabricates an Acceptable Self in a Man-Made Era.” Using Progressive-Era Economic and Eugenic theories, notes how these discourses influence a women’s attempt to perform her gender.
(IN PRINT):
Aristotle’s Ethics and Legal Rhetoric: An Analysis of Language Beliefs and the Law. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Press, 2005.
“Assigning Responsibility for Workplace Behavior: Sexual Harassment as a Form of Organizational Communication.” Readings in Gender Communication. Ed. Phil Backlund and Mary Rose Williams. Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2004.
“What’s Techné Got to Do with It? A Rhetorician ‘Answers’ Mitcham’s Philosophical Questioning.” Technical Communication Quarterly 11, (2002): 213-7.
“Beyond Foucault: Toward a User-Centered Approach to Sexual Harassment Policy.” Technical Communication Quarterly (Winter 2000): 9 - 28.
“At the Heart of Information Ecologies: Invisibility and Technical Communication.” Journal of Computer Documentation 24 (May 2000): 85-90.
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