Jessica Enoch

Jessica Enoch’s teaching and research focus on feminist rhetorics and pedagogies, feminist memory studies, spatial rhetorics, rhetorical education, histories of rhetoric and composition, as well as literacy studies. Her first book Refiguring Rhetorical Education: Women Teaching African American, Native American, and Chicano/a Students, revisits the seemingly innocuous figure of the nineteenth-century female teacher to investigate the radical iterations of rhetorical education that women teachers have produced (Southern Illinois UP, 2008). Her second monograph Domestic Occupations: Spatial Rhetorics and Women's Work explores the intersections of space, rhetoric, and gender to investigate how the material and discursive constructions of the home have both enabled and constrained women’s entrance into professional occupations and spaces (Southern Illinois UP, 2019) . Her current book project Remembering Suffrage: Feminist Memory and Activism at the Centennial of the 19th Amendment examines commemorations dedicated to the 2020 suffrage centennial using an intersectional feminist analytic. She has published Mestiza Rhetorics: An Anthology of Mexicana Activism in the Spanish-Language Press, 1887-1922 (co-edited with Cristina Ramírez), Women at Work: Rhetorics of Gender and Labor (co-edited with David Gold), Retellings: Opportunities for Feminist Research in Rhetoric and Composition Studies (co-edited with Jordynn Jack), Feminist Circulations: Feminist Explorations across Space and Time (co-edited with Danielle Griffin and Karen Nelson) and Burke in the Archives (co-edited with Dana Anderson). She has also published work on archival research methods and pedagogies as well as and students' revision and reflection practices.