Education:
Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1995
Contact:
Office: Cate 2, Room 341
Email: skates@ou.edu
Prof. Kates has published articles in College English and College Composition and Communication. Her poems have appeared in The Cumberland Review, The Laurel Review, Nimrod, Poem, Memoir Story,The Ohio Journal, WestBranch, and Texas Poetry Review. Prof. Kates teaches rhetorical theory and creative writing at the undergraduate level and rhetorical theory/composition theory at the graduate level.
History of rhetoric; material rhetorics; women’s rhetorics; creative writing, particularly creative nonfiction; Oklahoma cultural studies.
Red Dirt Women: At Home on the Oklahoma Plains. (University of Oklahoma Press, 2013.)
Activist Rhetorics and American Higher Education: 1885-1937 (Southern Illinois University Press, 2001)