Katie Manthey (she/they)
I am an associate professor of English & Writing Studies and director of the writing center at Salem College, a small women's college in North Carolina focused on health leadership. I teach professional writing from a cultural rhetorics framework and as well as courses that engage with both health leadership and women's studies, including the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine and Fat Feminisms: A History of the Body Positivity Movement. I am currently the co-chair of the Health Humanities program, an interdisciplinary major that includes nearly all of the arts and humanities programs at the college. My research interests include fat studies, cultural rhetorics, and dress as embodied multimodal rhetoric.
My research is grounded in my embodied identities as a queer, fat, neurodivergent femme. My current projects include a framework for fat rhetorical embodiment, a multi-institutional research project about social justice in writing centers, and a piece about teaching embodied rhetorics as professional writing. Information about each circle on my Venn Diagram can be found below:
My research is grounded in my embodied identities as a queer, fat, neurodivergent femme. My current projects include a framework for fat rhetorical embodiment, a multi-institutional research project about social justice in writing centers, and a piece about teaching embodied rhetorics as professional writing. Information about each circle on my Venn Diagram can be found below:
