Katherine Rothschild
Lecturer
Writing and Rhetoric Studies
Bio
Katherine Rothschild, MFA, PhD, is a Lecturer in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University where she teaches PWR 1, The Rhetoric of Innovation: Transformation and Missed Opportunities and PWR 2, Innovative Conservation Communication: The Rhetoric of Everyday Change. She is currently completing an NCTE grant-funded multi-institutional study of writing knowledge transfer into STEM disciplines. She has conducted studies and published on writerly identity in STEM disciplines, feminist social media rhetorics, visibility language, and egalitarian classroom models. She is also the author of the novel Wider than the Sky (PRH/Soho Teen), and a contributor to KQED/NPR, among other outlets.
Academic Appointments
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Lecturer, Writing and Rhetoric Studies
Honors & Awards
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NCTE CCCs Research Initiative Grant Recipient, National Council for Teachers of English (2019-2021)
Professional Education
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PhD, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Composition & Applied Linguistics
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MFA, Saint Mary's College of California, Fiction Writing
Current Research and Scholarly Interests
Fourth wave feminism has offered many opportunities for activism from anonymous or covert places, such as X and Tiktok. How effective are these new forms of linguistic activism?
2024-25 Courses
- Introduction to Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford
SOAR 10WR (Aut) - Science Storytelling for Kids
PWR 91KA (Spr) - Writing & Rhetoric 1: Forward Momentum: Writing About Movement(s)
PWR 1KAA (Aut) - Writing & Rhetoric 2: Everyday Conservation: Writing about Change
PWR 2KA (Win, Spr) -
Prior Year Courses
2023-24 Courses
- Introduction to Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford
SOAR 10WR (Aut) - Writing & Rhetoric 1: Forward Momentum: Writing About Movement(s)
PWR 1KAA (Aut, Win, Spr)
2022-23 Courses
- Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Rhetoric of Innovation: Transformations and Missed Opportunities
PWR 1KA (Spr) - Writing & Rhetoric 2: The Rhetoric of Everyday Conservation
PWR 2KA (Aut, Win)
2021-22 Courses
- Introduction to Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford
All Publications
- Responding to Writerly Identity as Inclusive Pedagogy Journal of Response to Writing 2023; Vol. 9 (2)
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Satirical feminism and the Reparative Tweet: a discourse analysis of the gendered language of @manwhohasitall
FEMINIST MEDIA STUDIES
2021
View details for DOI 10.1080/14680777.2021.1946581
View details for Web of Science ID 000667520400001
- The Rhetorical Emergency Kit: Engaging Ethically with End the Silence and Protest Rhetoric on a Campus in Crisis Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy 2019; 16 (1)