Stephanie Byttebier
Chair and Senior Lecturer, Rhetoric
Teaching Interests
Composition and Rhetoric; public speaking and debate; visual rhetoric; maps and mapping; urban design.
Research Interests
American literature (1870-1945); turn-of-the-century fiction and drama; women’s writing; transatlanticism; service-learning pedagogy.
Publications
“An Antidote to the Vitriol in Public Discourse.” Boston Globe, March 5 2023.
“Grief’s Theatrical Tutelage: Drama, Recitation, and a Collaborative Sociability in Constance Fenimore Woolson’s ‘Miss Grief.’” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 36.1 (June 2019)
“‘None of the Effect of an Invalid’: The Trials of Empathy in Henry James’s The Wings of the Dove.” The Henry James Review 35.2 (Summer 2014): 157-174.
“‘It Doesn’t Count if It’s Easy’: Facing Pain, Mediating Identity in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America.” Modern Drama 54.3 (Fall 2011): 287-309.
Awards
Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2023.