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Resident Assistant Professor, Writing & Rhetoric
BA, Northwestern University; MFA, Mills College; PhD, New York University
Appointed In
2014
Office
Library 22

Professor Ostendorf teaches a wide range of writing and literature courses in the Writing and Rhetoric Department and the Cultural Studies Program.

Recent Courses: Gender and Pop Culture; Feminist Rhetorics and Social Change; Nature from the Inside Out; Writing, Rhetoric, and Wanderlust; Creative Nonfiction; Theory and Pedagogy of Writing

Research Interests: writing and composition studies; queer studies; gender and sexuality; nature; medieval and early modern English literature