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Overview

  • Dr. Cristy Beemer is an Associate Professor of English, Coordinator of the Professional and Technical Writing Program, and incoming Director of Composition at the University of New Hampshire. Dr. Beemer’s research focuses on feminist rhetoric in classical, early modern, and contemporary contexts. She has published articles in Peitho, Rhetoric Review, and Teaching English at a Two-Year College, among others. Dr. Beemer is currently working on her book project, From the Margins of Healthcare: Breast Cancer and the Rhetoric of the Online Peer-to-Peer Healthcare Community. This work is a deeply personal exploration of a unique rhetorical space where first-hand accounts of cancer treatment form an instructive avenue of inquiry in medical care and create a virtual, global community of women writers contributing to wellness through shared experience, language, support, advice, and humor.
  • Teaching Activities

  • First-Year Writing Taught course
  • First-Year Writing Taught course
  • First-Year Writing Taught course
  • Hist & Theor Studies Rhetoric Taught course
  • Professional & Technical Writ Taught course
  • First-Year Writing Taught course 2023
  • First-Year Writing Taught course 2023
  • Theory&Practice of Composition Taught course 2022
  • Professional & Technical Writ Taught course 2022
  • Practm & Mentor College Comp Taught course 2021
  • Practm & Mentor College Comp Taught course 2021
  • Professional & Technical Writ Taught course 2021
  • Hist & Theor Studies Rhetoric Taught course 2021
  • Practm & Mentor College Comp Taught course 2020
  • Practm & Mentor College Comp Taught course 2020
  • Professional & Technical Writ Taught course 2020
  • Spc Top/Composition & Rhetoric Taught course 2020
  • Practm & Mentor College Comp Taught course 2019
  • Practm & Mentor College Comp Taught course 2019
  • Professional & Technical Writ Taught course 2019
  • Practm & Mentor College Comp Taught course 2018
  • Practm & Mentor College Comp Taught course 2018
  • Practm & Mentor College Comp Taught course 2017
  • Practm & Mentor College Comp Taught course 2017
  • First-Year Writing Taught course 2017
  • Literature and Business Taught course 2017
  • First-Year Writing Taught course 2016
  • Hist & Theor Studies Rhetoric Taught course 2016
  • First-Year Writing Taught course 2016
  • Literature and Business Taught course 2016
  • First-Year Writing Taught course 2015
  • Spc Top/Women's Rhetoric Taught course 2015
  • First-Year Writing Taught course 2015
  • Shakespeare Taught course 2015
  • History of Composition Taught course 2014
  • Honors/First-Year Writing Taught course 2014
  • Honors/People Stories Taught course 2014
  • Education And Training

  • B.A. English, State University of New York at New Paltz
  • B.A. Liberal Arts&Sci.&Humanities, Hofstra University
  • M.A. English, State University of New York at New Paltz
  • Ph.D. English, Miami University - Ohio
  • Full Name

  • Cristy Beemer