Distinguished Professor of English Emerita. Retired from Holy Cross in 2019 after 42 years. Publications include: Rhetorics of Fear and Rage: An American Tradition (forthcoming); Nineteenth-Century American Activist Rhetorics, with Zimmerelli, 2021; The Rhetorical Tradition, with Herzberg and Reames, 3rd edition 2020. Honors include: NCTE Outstanding Book Award, 1992; Exemplar Award, CCCC; 2008; Sara Feinberg Prize, Hebrew College, 2013; Fellow, Rhetoric Society of America, 2018.