Education

Ph.D., Bowling Green State University, 2012
M.A., Saint Bonaventure University, 2008
B.A., Saint Bonaventure University, 2006

Academic Summary

Dr. Fredlund is an associate professor in the Department of English and the director of first-year writing. Her research focuses on women's rhetorical practices (particularly in the 19th century), feminist historiography, anti-racist Writing Program Administration, and the potentials and pitfalls of using GenAI to support writing instruction. 

Selected Publications

• Forthcoming: “Victimhood Rhetorics: How Stormfront Spread White Nationalism Online.” Rhetoric Review. Coauthored with Angela Morris.

• “Six Words Toward Knowing and Feeling.” Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, 11, 1, 2024.   

• "Twitter User's Display of Affect in the Global Warming Debate." Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, April 2021, pp. 1-23. Co-authored with Shanna Cameron, Alexandra Russell, Luke Brake, and Angela Morris. 

• "Collaborating Toward an Anti-Racist Curriculum." Writing Program Administration, 44, 3, 2021. Special Issue on Black Lives Matter and Anti-Racist Projects in Writing Program Administration, pp. 114-120. Co-authored with Angela Morris. 

• "A Feminist and Anti-Racist History of Composition and Rhetoric at Oberlin College (1846-1851)." College Composition and Communication, (February 2021).

• Co-editor with Kerri Hauman and Jessica Ouellette. Feminist Connections: Rhetoric and Activism Across Time, Space, and Place. University of Alabama Press, 2020.

• Editor, Writing Memphis, 1st, 2nd and 3rd ed., Hayden-McNeil, 2017, 2018, 2020.

• "Feminist Activism in the Core: Student Activism in Theory and Practice." Composing Feminist Interventions: Activism, Engagement, Praxis, eds. Kristine Blair and Lee Nickoson. WAC Clearinghouse. Expected Winter 2018.

• Writing Memphis. Co-edited with Vincent Kenny-Cincotta. Hayden-McNeil, 2017.

• "The Writing is on the Wall: Activist Rhetorics, Public Writing, and Responsible Pedagogy." Co-Authored with Scott Sundvall. Composition Forum. August 2017.

• "'Be Therefore Persuaded Ladies': Boston's Gleaning Circle (1805-13)." Rhetoric Review 36.1 (2017): 29-43.

• "Social Media and The Rhetorical Situation: Finding Common Ground Between Students' Lives and Writing Courses." Engaging 21st Century Writers with Social Media, edited by Kendra Bryant, IGI Global, 2016. pp. 96-115.

• "Feminist CHAT: Collaboration, Nineteenth-Century Women's Clubs, and Activity Theory." College English 78.5 (2016): 470-95.

• "Forget the Master's Tools, We Will Build Our Own House: The Woman's Era as a Rhetorical Forum for the Invention of the African American Woman." Peitho (Spring 2016): 67-98.

• "Antinarcissistic Rhetoric: Reinforcing Social Inequities through Gender Performance." Rhetoric Review 33.1 (2014): 21-37.

• "Cyberfeminists at Play: Lessons on Literacy and Activism from a Girls' Computer Camp." Feminist Teacher 22.1 (2011): 43-59. Co-authored with Kristine Blair; Kerri Hauman; Em Hurford; Stacy Kaster; and Alison Witte.