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.