Melissa A. Goldthwaite, Ph.D.

• B.A., Messiah College, 1993
• M.F.A. The Ohio State University, 1997
• Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 2001

Books

• Food, Feminisms, Rhetorics. Southern Illinois University Press, 2017.
• The Little Norton Reader: 50 Essays From the First 50 Years. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2016.
• Books that Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal (with Jennifer Cognard-Black.) New York: New York University Press, 2014.
• St. Martin’s Guide to Teaching Writing, 7th edition. (with Cheryl Glenn) New York: Bedford / St. Martin’s P, 2013. (6th edition, 2007; 5th edition, 2003)
• The Norton Reader, fifteenth edition. (Edited with John Brereton, Anne Fernald, and Joe Bizup) New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2020. (13th edition, 2012; 14th edition, 2016).
• The Norton Pocket Book of Writing by Students. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2010.
• Surveying the Literary Landscapes of Terry Tempest Williams. (Ed. with Katherine Chandler) Salt Lake City: U of Utah P, 2003.

Journal Articles

• “Books that Cook: Teaching Food and Food Literature in the English Classroom.” (with Jennifer Cognard-Black) College English 70.4 (March 2008): 421-435.
• “Out of and Back Into the Box: Redefining Essays and Options.” Writing on the Edge 14.1 (Fall 2003): 69-88.
• “Confessionals.” College English 66.1 (September 2003): 55-73.
• “Reading, Teaching, and Writing (at) Disciplinary Intersections: Oars, Wars, and a Place to Stand.” Reader 47 (Fall 2002): 38-60.

Book Chapters

• “‘Here’s What I’d Like for You to Know’: Epistolary Style as an Invitation to Read and Write Metonymically.” Style and the Future of Composition Studies. Eds. Paul Butler, Brian Ray, and Star Medzerian Vanguri. University of Colorado Press, 2020.
• “Body, Camera, Self.” From Curlers to Chainsaws: Women and Their Machines. Eds. Joyce Dyer, Jennifer Cognard-Black, and Elizabeth MacLeod Walls. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2016. 214-27.
• “Rhetorics of Silence: A Pedagogy of Contemplation, Empathy, and Action.” Becoming Beholders: Cultivating Sacramental Imagination and Actions in College Classrooms. Eds. Karen Eifler and Thomas Landy. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2014.
• “Playing with Echo: Strategies for Teaching Repetition in the Writing Classroom.” Refiguring Prose Style. Eds. Thomas Pace and T.R. Johnson. Utah State UP, 2005. 119-29.
• “On Seeking Fullness in Academic Places.” (with Wendy Bishop) A Delicate Balance: Teaching, Scholarship, and Service in the Twenty-First Century English Department. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen P, 2004.
• “From Correct to Effect: Revising Alternate Styles.” Acts of Revising. Ed. Wendy Bishop. Portsmouth: Boynton/Cook/Heinemann, 2004. 51-60.
• “Rhetoric + Feminism = Williams’s Poetic Means: Transforming Triptychs of Body, Form, and Faith in Leap.” Surveying the Literary Landscapes of Terry Tempest Williams. Salt Lake City: U of Utah P, 2003. 123-51.
• “This, Too, Is Research.” The Subject is Research. Eds. Wendy Bishop and Pavel Zemliansky. Portsmouth: Boynton/Cook/Heinemann, 2001. 193-201. (Reprinted in On Writing: A Process Reader. Ed. Wendy Bishop. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004. 431-39)

Essays and Poetry in Journals and Books

• Essay: “By Hand, By Heart.” Kentucky English Bulletin. (Spring 2018). 67.2 (63-65).
• Poem: "Summer Salad." Books that Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal. Eds. Jennifer Cognard-Black and Melissa Goldthwaite. New York: NYUP, 2014. 240-241.
• Essay: “Contemplating a Life.” The Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education Newsletter 7 (Fall 2010).
• Poem: “A Try.” Collegium News 2.4 (Fall 2008): 9.
• Poem: “Wildflower Composition.” In Praise of Pedagogy. Eds. Wendy Bishop and David Starkey. Calendar Islands Publishers, 2000. 129.
• Poem: “In Remembrance.” OE Journal. (January 1996): 17.
• Essay: “Places in the Mind.” OE Journal. (Autumn 1994): 35.
• Poem: “Saturday on the Millpond.” OE Journal. (Autumn 1994): 19.
• Poem: “The Wedding Ring.” Christian Century 111 (January 26, 1994): 68.