Book-length publications include The Rhetoric of Rebel Women: Civil War Diaries and Confederate Persuasion. Southern Illinois University Press; A Maryland Bride in the Deep South: The Civil War Diary of Priscilla Bond, Louisiana State University Press, awarded the 2005-2006 American Civil War Museum Bi-annual Foundersâ Award for outstanding editing of primary source documents of the Civil War South and the 2012 Dr. Arthur W. Bergeron Award for scholarship on Louisianaâs Civil War history; Victorian Sensations: Essays on a Scandalous Genre. Edited with Richard Fantina, The Ohio State University Press. 2006. Paperback edition; 2016; and Contemporary Composition Studies: A Guide to Theorists and Terms. Co-author, Edith Babin, Greenwood Press. Articles published are on the subjects of writing program administration and American Civil War diaries and rhetoric.
