Julie Prebel

She teaches all of the department’s required courses and those in her areas of specialization in gender and sexuality studies, film and media studies, and nineteenth-century studies. She has published widely in the field of composition-rhetoric, including a co-authored and edited volume Disruptive Stories: Amplifying Voices from the Writing Center Margins (2024), and in American Studies journals such as American Literature.

Selected Courses:

• Feminist Rhetorics and Social Change
• Discipline and Desire: The History of Sexuality in the U.S.
• Captivity, Carcerality, Unfreedom: Abolitionist Rhetorics

Selected Articles:

• “White Femininity and the Black Female Gaze: Internalized Oppression in The Bluest Eye.” In Inequality, ed. Kimberly Drake. Grey House Publishing, August 2018.
• “Engaging a ‘Pedagogy of Discomfort’: Emotion as Critical Inquiry in Community Based Writing Courses.” Composition Forum: Special Issue “Emotion in Composition.” Volume 34: Summer 2016.
• “Paranoia: A Defense Against Patriarchy in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’.” InCritical Insights: Literature of Fear and Paranoia, ed., Kimberly Drake. Grey House Publishing. December 2016.
• “Writing Center Support for International Students.” Academic Exchange Quarterly 19.4 (Winter) 2015.
• Confessions in the Writing Center: Disclosures of Sexual Trauma in the Era of Mandatory Reporting.” WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship. Issue 40: 3-4, Nov-Dec 2015.
• “Head Bumps to Brain Scans: A Visual Rhetorical History of Scientific Surveillant Looking.” Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture. Issue 19, July 2015.