Dr. Erin Branch
Teaching Professor | Director of the Writing Program
Contact
- Office: ZSR Library, 426a
- Phone: (336) 758-6126
- Email:
Degrees
- PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- MA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- BA, Middlebury College
Areas of Interest
- Rhetoric & Composition
- Women’s Rhetorical History
- Food Studies
- Rhetorics of Health & Medicine
Courses Taught at Wake Forest
- WRI 111 Ethics, Identity, Representation
- WRI 111 Writing Well: Rhetorics of Health and Illness
- WRI 111 Eating Our Words: Rhetorics of Food
- WRI 210 Advanced Academic Writing
- WRI 212 The Art of the Essay
- WRI 341 Rhetorics of Taste
Selected Publications
- Transforming Tastes: Women and the Revision of American Food Rhetorics (under contract with the University of Nebraska Press)
- “The Meaning of A Meal: M.F.K. Fisher and Gastronomical Kairos” Food, Feminisms, and Rhetorics. Melissa Goldthwaite, ed. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 2017. 77-88.
- “’Taste Analytically’: Julia Child’s Rhetoric of Cultivation.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 45.2 (2015): 164-184.
- “Tag and Release: Technosocial Ecologies for Student Writing and Publishing.” With Dan Anderson and Ashley Hall. Designing Web-Based Applications for 21st Century Writing Classrooms. George Pullman and Baotong Gu, eds. Amityville, NY: Baywood Press, 2011.
- Instructor’s Manual to Beyond Words, 2nd ed. With Dan Anderson, Heather Branstetter, & Chelsea Redeker. New York: Longman, 2009.