Amy Anderson

Amy Anderson
  • Professor
  • Department: English
  • Research Cluster: English, Rhetoric, Writing & Literary Studies
  • Institution: West Chester University of Pennsylvania
  • Email: AAnderson@wcupa.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Kentucky
  • M.A., University of Kentucky
  • B.A., Miami University

Research Interests

visual rhetoricmultimodal compositionhistory of rhetoricdigital rhetoricreligious rhetorics

Opportunities

Work Study Positions Available: No

Grant Funded Positions Available: No

Course-Credit Research Opportunities Available: No

Volunteer Research Positions Available: No

Open to Faculty Mentoring: Yes

Biography

My academic home is the field of rhetoric and composition, with a focus on visual and multimodal rhetorics, digital rhetorics, the history of rhetoric, and religious rhetorics. My current projects include a study of religious iconography and an exploration of Lucie Olbrecht-Tyteca's contributions to the New Rhetoric Project. I am additionally part of an international RhetAI research group that is working on rhetorical AI literacy.

List of Publications

  • Basgier, Christopher, et al. “Dimensions of Persuasion and Trust in Artificial Intelligence.” The RhetAI Coalition, Substack, 26 May 2026, https://rhetaicoalition.substack.com/p/dimensions-of-persuasion-and-trust
  • “Illuminating Manuscripts: Words, Images, and AI.” TextGenEd: Continuing Experiments, edited by Annette Vee, Tim Laquintaro, and Carly Schnitzer, The WAC Clearinghouse, August 2024. https://doi.org/10.37514/TWR-J.2024.2.1.01
  • “Rhetorical Stillness: How Byzantine Iconography Offers an Alternative to Rhetorical Velocity,” Rhetoric Society Quarterly, vol. 52, no. 5, 2022, pp. 448-63. https://doi.org/10.1080/02773945.2022.2062433
  • “The New Rhetoric Project Laughs: Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca, Dissociation, and the Comic.” Philosophy and Rhetoric, vol. 53, no. 4, Fall 2020, pp. 450-65. doi: 10.5325/philrhet.53.4.0450
  • “Exploring the Multimodal Gutter: What Dissociation Can Teach Us about Multimodality.” enculturation, vol. 25, 17 Oct. 2017. http://www.enculturation.net/exploring_the_multimodal_gutter.

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