About
Dara Rossman Regaignon is an associate professor in the Department of English, where she teaches nineteenth-century British literature and culture as well as rhetoric and writing studies. Her first book, Writing Program Administration at Small Liberal Arts Colleges (Parlor Press, 2012, co-authored with Jill M. Gladstein), is the first empirical study of writing programs at 100 small liberal arts colleges. Her second book, Writing Maternity: Medicine, Anxiety, Rhetoric, and Genre (Ohio State UP, 2021), historicizes the anxious affects of middle-class motherhood and offers a literary-rhetorical history of maternal anxiety as a cultural formation. She has also published on writing fellows programs, writing pedagogy, and children’s literature. Regaignon is currently at work on Vulnerable Rhetorics, a study of how elite women’s claims of gendered, classed, and racialized vulnerability underwrote and justified imperial expansion in the late nineteenth-century British Empire. Education
BA, English Literature, Amherst College, 1993
MA, English and Women’s Studies, Brandeis University, 1996
PhD, English and American Literature, Brandeis University, 2000 Publications
Books
Writing Maternity: Medicine, Anxiety, Rhetoric, and Genre. Ohio State UP, 2021.
Reviewed in
Romantic Circles, 1 Sept. 2021;
Choice, Feb 2022;
History, vol. 107, no. 374, 2022, pp. 204-206;
Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, vol. 15, no. 1, 2022, pp. 167-169.
Writing Program Administration at Small Liberal Arts Colleges. With Jill Gladstein. Clemson, SC: Parlor Press, 2012.
Reviewed in
Composition Forum 29, 2014;
Journal of Teaching Writing vol. 29, no. 2, 2014, pp. 107-116;
College English vol. 81, no. 6, July 2019, pp. 542-558.
Selected Articles
- “Anxious Uptakes: Nineteenth-Century Advice Literature as a Rhetorical Genre.” College English (Nov. 2015): 139-161.
- “Motherly Concern.” Extending Families. Spec. issue of Victorian Review 39.2 (Fall, 2013): 32-35.
- “What Difference Do Writing Fellows Make?” With Pamela Bromley. WAC Journal 22 (2011): 41-63.
- “Consortia as Sites of Inquiry: Steps Toward a National Portrait of Writing Program Administration.” With Jill Gladstein and Lisa Lebduska. Lead article, WPA: Writing Program Administration 32.3 (2009): 13-36.
- “Traction: Transferring Analysis Across the Curriculum.” Lead article, “From the Classroom.” Pedagogy 9.1 (2009): 121-133.
- “Toxic Maternity in The Daisy Chain: Infant-Doping at Mid-Century.” Other Mothers: Beyond the Maternal Ideal. Ed. Claudia Klaver and Ellen Rosenman. Ohio State University Press, 2008. 125-144.
- “Pemberley vs. the Purple Jar: Prudence, Pleasure, and Narrative Strategy.” Women’s Writing 11.3 (2004): 439-61.
- “Intimacy’s Empire: Children, Servants, and Missionaries in Mary Martha Sherwood’s ‘Little Henry and his Bearer’ (1814).” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 26.2 (2001): 84-95.
- “Instructive Sufficiency: Re-Reading the Governess through Agnes Grey.” Victorian Literature and Culture 29.1 (2001): 85-108.
