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Dr. Nancy L. Reichert

Contact Information
Office: J335
Phone: 678-915-3193
nreicher@spsu.edu
http://www2.spsu.edu/htc/reichert/index.htm

Nancy L. Reichert received a B.A. degree in English (with teacher certification) from the University of Dayton in 1983. She taught high school English for six years:  three years in Morocco, Indiana, and three years in St. Petersburg, Florida. In 1989 she took a leave of absence from Dixie Hollins High School and pursued graduate work at Florida State University. At Florida State University she studied Southern Literature and Rhetoric and Composition. She received her M.A. in 1991 and her Ph.D. in 1995. Dr. Reichert then taught composition, American literature, and creative writing for four years at Montgomery College in Conroe, Texas, before coming to Southern Polytechnic State University in the fall of 1999.

In the Spring of 1996, Dr. Reichert won the Russell Reaver Award for Outstanding Dissertation in American Literature or Folklore from Florida State University for her dissertation, Separate and Communal Selves: Eudora Welty's Investigations of Human Relationships. In her dissertation Dr. Reichert explores the dual nature of human beings through a Kristevian lens. Her study articulates the difficulty Welty's characters have in acknowledging the Kristevian dialectic of semiotic and symbolic, and the jouissance characters experience when they manage this negotiation process.

Dr. Reichert is interested in the intersections between critical theory and rhetoric/composition theory, literature and composition, the personal and social aspects of writing, and technology and writing. Her publications and paper presentations in the composition field have explored these intersections and have focused on how these intersections influence the practice of teaching writing and literature.

Currently, Dr. Reichert directs the University Honors Program and teaches composition and American Literature for the ETCMA Department. In her classes she seeks to help students become thoughtful readers and writers who engage in texts on their own and in small-group and full-class discussions. Dr. Reichert is active in the following professional organizations: The Modern Language Association, The National Council of Teachers of English, The Eudora Welty Society, The National Collegiate Honors Council, and The Teaching of English in the Two-Year College.


Courses

Dr. Reichert specializes in the following courses offered by the ETCMA department:

 

 

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