L. Jill Lamberton has joined the Wabash College English and Rhetoric Departments with a two-year appointment as a Lilly Teaching Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor. Professor Lamberton will be splitting her duties between the two departments while helping English and Rhetoric explore the connections between the two academic fields.  In important respects, Professor Lamberton’s work illustrates the close and complex relationship between the two disciplines.  For instance, while her education is in Rhetoric and Composition as affiliated with English, her dissertation was recognized with an award from the American Society for the History of Rhetoric, an organization affiliated with the National Communication Association.

Professor Lamberton has a B.A. in English, Religious Studies, and Spanish from Walla Walla (College Place, Wash), an M.A. in English Studies from Western Washington University (Bellingham, Wash), and in 2007 she completed her PhD at the University of Michigan.  Her dissertation, Claiming an Education: The Transatlantic Performance and Circulation of Intellectual Identities in College Women’s Writing, 1870-1900, explores the role of student writing in late nineteenth-century women’s colleges by examining artifacts such as diaries, letters, poetry, and campus publications.  In particular she examines the rhetorical strategies used by the women during their integration into Girton and Newnham Colleges at Cambridge and Radcliffe College at Harvard. 

During the Fall semester Professor Lamberton will teach Freshman Composition, Public Speaking, and Cultures and Traditions. Her office is in Center Hall (112B) and she can be contacted at lambertj@wabash.edu or campus extension 6154.