Background:
Kellie Sharp-Hoskins earned an M.A. from San Diego State University and a Ph.D. from Illinois State University, where she completed a dissertation entitled “What Counts? Who Counts? A Methodology for Leveraging Perspective on the Terministic Management of Language and Bodies.”
She is a Professor of Rhetoric and Professional Communication and the current Writing Program Administrator for New Mexico State University, main campus.
Research Interests:
Her research is grounded in the concept of rhetorical imagination—how complex webs of narratives and relations manage possibilities for recognition, perspective, representation, and ethics of language and bodies. This focus on rhetorical imagination emerges at the intersections of a number of theoretical paradigms important within rhetoric and writing studies (feminist, materialist, and critical race theories, in particular), which Dr. Sharp-Hoskins invokes to theorize methodologies capable of intervening in the reproduction/reification of differential mattering (especially in pedagogical and public discourse).
Select Publications:
· Rhetoric in Debt. Penn State UP: RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetorics, 2023.
· “Scalar Violence in Composition.” Violence in the Work of Composition. Ed. Scott Gage and Kristie Fleckenstein. Utah State UP, 2022. [Co-authored with Kerry Banazek]
· “Performing Complex Recognitions: (De)Colonial (Mis)Recognitions as Systemic Revision.” Decolonial Conversations in Posthuman and New Material Rhetorics. Ed. David M. Grant and Jennifer Clary-Lemon. Ohio State UP, 2022, pp. 47-66. [Co-authored with Kelly Medina-López]
· “Algorithmic Abstraction and the Racial Neoliberal Rhetorics of 23andMe.” Rhetoric Review, vol. 40, no. 3, 2021, pp. 284-99. Print. [Co-authored with Kathleen Weisse and Julie Jung]
· “Rhetorical Future(s) and Accounting for Rhetorical Debt.” Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, March 2019.
· “Imagining Responsiveness: On the Rhetorical Limits of Vulnerability.” Writing for Engagement: Responsive Practice for Social Action. Ed. Mary P. Sheridan, Megan Bardolph, Megan Hartline, and Drew Holladay. Lexington, 2018, pp. 61-74.
Courses Taught:
· ENGL 1110: Composition I
· ENGL 2210G: Introduction to Technical & Professional Communication
· ENGL 301: Theory & Criticism: Rhetoric & Culture
· ENGL 4/519: Modern Rhetorical Theory
· ENGL 4/549: Advanced/Grad Study in Writing
· ENGL 507: Special Topics in Rhetoric and TPC
· ENGL 5/610: Proseminar in Rhetoric and Professional Communication
· ENGL 5/668: Rhetoric and Cultural Studies
· ENGL 571: Composition Pedagogy
· ENGL 603: Rhetorical Criticism
Contact: kcsharp@nmsu.edu
