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Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler

Professor

Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler joined the department of English in 1983.

Degrees
  • Ph.D., English, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • M.A., English, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • A.B. magna cum laude, English, Miami University
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Teaching & Research Interests
  • Political rhetoric
  • History of rhetoric
  • Visual rhetoric
Courses Commonly Taught
  • Milton (undergraduate and graduate)
  • Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Literature
  • Late Eighteenth-Century Literature
  • Shakespeare
Selected Publications
  • Editor, Life Writings.  2 vols. The Early Modern Englishwoman:  A Facsimile Library of Essential Works, 1500-1750, Series II:  Printed Writings, 1641-1700:  Part I.  General Editors Betty S. Travitsky and Patrick Cullen.  Aldershot:  Ashgate, 2001.
  • The Rhetoric of Politics in the English Revolution, 1642-1660.   Columbia, MO.: Univ. of Missouri Press, 1992.
  • “Early Political Prose.”  In A Companion to Milton.  Ed.  Thomas N. Corns.  London:  Blackwell, 2001.  263-78.
  • “William Dugard.”  Dictionary of Literary Biography.  Vol. 281.  British Rhetoricians and Logicians, 1500-1660.  2nd series.  Ed. Edward Malone.  New York:  Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2003.  77-84.  
  • “John Milton.”  Dictionary of Literary Biography.  Vol 281.  British Rhetoricians and Logicians, 1500-1660.  2nd series.  Ed. Edward Malone.  New York:  Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2003.  188-200.  
  • "Sir Francis Bacon."  Dictionary of Literary Biography.  Vol. 236.  British Rhetoricians and Logicians, 1500-1660.  1st series.  Ed. Edward Malone.  New York:  Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2001.  12-39.