Master Lecturer and Director of Writing Placement and Support
English

Mary Beth Pennington

757-683-4114

3032 BATTEN ARTS & LETTERS
NORFOLK, 23529

Ph.D. in English, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, (2010)

M.A. in English, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, (2004)

B.A. in Communications, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, (2000)

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Pennington, M. "Recipient of VMI Undergraduate Research Initiative’s Integrating Undergraduate Research into the Curriculum Grant" $1,000. 2011 - 2011

Expertise

English/Grammar
Rhetoric and Composition

Research Interests

rhetoric of Appalachian activism, disciplinary evolution of rhetoric and composition, online writing courses, the essay

Articles

Pennington, M., Ritola, T. and Walzer, B. (2017). The Public Fallout of the Humanities’ Crisis: Critiquing the Public Turn in Rhetoric and Composition Studies. Rendezvous Journal of Arts and Letters (Crisis in the Humanities Special Edition) 43 (1).

Book Chapters

Pennington, M. (2016). Powerlessness Repurposed: The Feminist Ethos of Judy Bonds Rethinking Ethos: A Feminist Ecological Approach to Rhetoric (pp. 150-173) Carbondale IL: Southern Illinois University Press.
Pennington, M. (2009). Revealing the Writing Center Technê Rhêtorikê: Techniques of Discourse for Writers and Speakers (pp. 98-103) Southlake, TX: Fountainhead Press.
Pennington, M. (2008). The University Writing Center: Curing the Writing Blues Writing Matters (pp. 127-130) The University of North Carolina at Greensboro English Department Publication.
Pennington, M. (2006). The Art of Revision Writing Matters The University of North Carolina at Greensboro English Department Publication.
  • 2015: Nominated by colleague for Old Dominion University’s New Faculty Award, Old Dominion University
  • 2015: Shining Star Teaching Award, Old Dominion University
  • 2014: Shining Star Teaching Award, Old Dominion University
  • 2013: Nominated by department head for VMI’s 2013 Thomas Jefferson Teaching Award, Virginia Military Institute
  • 2011: Jessie Ball DuPont Summer Seminar for Liberal Arts College Faculty 2011 Participant, The National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC
  • 2009: Graduate Student Essay Award for “The Persistence of Country: An Ethnographic Study and Reflection on Being Rural and Academic”, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  • 2005: Oleta Norman Fellowship, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  • 2004: Knobler Graduate Scholar Award, Virginia Tech University
  • 2004: Phi Beta Kappa, Virginia Tech University
  • 2004: Phi Kappa Phi, Virginia Tech University
  • 2004: Richard Hoffman GTA Teaching Award, Virginia Tech University
  • 2000: Graduated Commonwealth Scholar, Virginia Tech University
  • 2000: Graduated magna cum laude, Virginia Tech University

Organizational Chart