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Welcome to my website. I am an associate professor in the Department of English who studies and teaches rhetorical history, theory and criticism; ethnographic research methods; composition pedagogy; and gender issues in communication. I have special expertise in the rhetoric of religion, gender and rhetoric, space and rhetorical performance, and the ethnography of rhetoric. My first book, The Gendered Pulpit: Preaching in American Protestant Spaces, was released in November 2003 by Southern Illinois University Press in the Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms Series (series edited by Cheryl Glenn and Shirley Wilson Logan). My second book-length study, with Michelle Ballif (U Georgia) and Diane Davis (U Texas), explores women's career strategies in the field of rhetoric and composition. Titled Women's Ways of Making It . . . In Rhetoric and Composition, the book will be released by Routledge in March 2008. My great passion has long been community-based research. I serve as vice president of the Board of Directors for a nonprofit called Voices: Community Stories Past and Present, Inc., which trains low-income youth from across Tucson and the Yaqui and Tohono O'Odham nations to write about their communities. Their stories and photographs appear in 110° Magazine: Tucson's Youth Tell Tucson's Stories and other publications.

My teaching philosophy grows out of my study of culture. I believe we owe it to our students to reveal how knowledge is made and to show them how they can participate in that process. I encourage students to view their academic disciplines as "cultures" with insider and outsider knowledge, histories, and rhetorical conventions that can be learned "ethnographically." Through study and research, I hope they will become more aware of the worlds they inhabit--to embody "a formalized curiosity"--and to participate with me in making knowledge. This semester I put that philosophy to work in Zora Neale Hurston: A Junior Proseminar, a course for English majors, and in Research in Rhetoric and Composition, a survey for graduate students in the Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English Program.

You can read more about my teaching in the February 2000 "Spotlight on Teaching" column in UA's Lo Que Pasa: "Mountford uses teaching tool that promotes learning environment".

I continue to serve as the Chair of the Human Subjects Committee in the Department of English. My other committee work for the University of Arizona includes service on the Executive Vice President and Provost Search Committee and the Research Policy Committee. I am also serving a second term on Faculty Senate, representing the College of Humanities.

Mail: Department of English | University of Arizona | P O Box 210067 | Tucson, AZ | 85721-0067

Internet: roxanne@u.arizona.edu | www.u.arizona.edu/~roxanne

Office: Modern Languages 369 | 520-621-7402

Fax: 520-621-7397

Office Hours (Spring 2008): T 10:00-12:00 and by appointment