Susan Wells
suewells@temple.edu
To read Susan Wells’ essay, “Our Bodies, Ourselves: Reading the Written Body,” Signs 33, no. 3 (2008), 697-723, please click here.
Susan Wells's interests include rhetoric and composition, critical theory, theories of the public sphere, and feminist studies of science. Wells's book on nineteenth-century women physicians and scientific writing, Out of the Dead House, was published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2001, and won the 2002 W. Ross Winterowd Award for the most outstanding book in composition theory. She has also published Sweet Reason: Rhetoric and the Discourses of Modernity (Chicago, 1996) and The Dialectics of Representation (Johns Hopkins University, 1985).
Wells' current project is a book on the writing of Our Bodies, Ourselves, the feminist guide to women's health.
Recent articles include:
“Stories and Their Structures: Narrative Forms in Our Bodies, Ourselves,” in Women Physicians, Women’s Politics, and Women’s Health, Ed. Manon Parry and Ellen
Moore, Johns Hopkins University Press (papers from 2004 National Library of Medicine symposium).
“Ann Berthoff and the Exigence of Editing,” Reader 51 (Fall 2004), 44-55.
“Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Speaking Picture,” in The Private, the Public, and the Published. Ed. Barbara Couture and Thomas Kent. Logan, Utah: Utah State Univ.
Press: 2004, 57-78.
“Just Difficult Enough: Writers’ Desires and Readers’ Economies,” JAC 23:3 (2003)
487-505.
“Freud’s Rat Man and the Case Study: Genre in Three Keys,” New Literary History 34:2 (Spring 2003), Theorizing Genres I, 253-66. Invited essay.
“Discursive Mobility and Double Consciousness in S. Weir Mitchell and W.E.B. DuBois,” P
Philosophy and Rhetoric 35:2 (2002), 120-37.
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