Georgetown College

Assistant Professor of English

J.P worked at Georgetown College as a Assistant Professor of English

University of Louisville

Graduate Teaching Assistant

J.P worked at University of Louisville as a Graduate Teaching Assistant

HMB Professional Engineers

Marketing and Technical Writing Consultant

J.P worked at HMB Professional Engineers as a Marketing and Technical Writing Consultant

Monmouth University

Associate Professor of English and Director of First-Year Composition

J.P worked at Monmouth University as a Associate Professor of English and Director of First-Year Composition

Monmouth University

Assistant Professor of English

J.P worked at Monmouth University as a Assistant Professor of English

Midway College

Adjunct Professor of English/Writing Center Director

J.P worked at Midway College as a Adjunct Professor of English/Writing Center Director

Striking Through the Masque: Intertextuality and Iconoclasm in Susan Howe’s Eikon Basilike, or a Bibliography of the King’s Book

Kentucky Philological Review

Striking Through the Masque: Intertextuality and Iconoclasm in Susan Howe’s Eikon Basilike, or a Bibliography of the King’s Book

Kentucky Philological Review

Inviting Infamy, Reframing Freedom: Nineteenth-Century Anti-Polygamy Lecturer, Ann Eliza Young, and the Dynamics of Incremental Persuasion

Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition

This essay reintroduces the nineteenth-century anti-polygamy lecturer, Ann Eliza Young; examines the rhetorical strategies the estranged nineteenth wife of Brigham Young employed to achieve her aims; and argues that she emerges for historians and theorists of rhetoric as an unexpectedly heuristic figure, affording insights into the dynamics of incremental persuasion and the networked nature of rhetorical agency. After familiarizing readers with her career and the criticisms she faced, I analyze how, by drawing on the resources offered by anti-Mormon rhetoric and fiction and by developing embodied and ethical arguments that challenged audiences to form identifications expanding their conceptions of who could be a speaker, Young was able to reframe the Mormon question so that her listeners and readers might engage more productively with what was ultimately at stake in cultural conversations about the problem of polygamy.