Bio

Dr. Mudiwa Pettus (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of English Composition and Rhetoric and Deputy Chair of the Department of English and World Languages. She earned a PhD in English and African American and Diaspora Studies from Pennsylvania State University and a BA in English from Claflin University. Dr. Pettus’s research interests are located at the intersections of rhetorical education, Black intellectual history, and late nineteenth century African-American literature. Her writing appears in College English, Rhetoric Review, Writers: Craft & Context, the Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, and other venues. She is also the Editor in Chief of the Killens Review of Arts & Letters, and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Basic Writing. Dr. Pettus is completing her first book, Against Compromise: Black Rhetorical Education in the Age of Booker T. Washington. In the project, she traces the development of a collective African-American rhetorical consciousness through the oratorical career of Booker T. Washington.