Leonard A. Podis Professor; Director, Department of Rhetoric and Composition (1975) Rhetoric and Composition faculty webpage
	Rice 139C
	(440) 775-8612
	Len.Podis@oberlin.edu
	A.B., Case Western Reserve University, 1970 M.A., Case Western Reserve University, 1970 Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, 1975
	Rhetoric and composition; writing pedagogy; early modernist American literature; colonial and postcolonial African literature.
	Books: Working with Student Writers (with JoAnne M. Podis) Issues and Themes in Colonial and Postcolonial African Literature (with Yakubu Saaka) Rethinking Writing (with JoAnne M. Podis) Writing: Invention, Form and Style (with JoAnne M. Podis). Current Book Project: "Neither a Dark Night of Savagery nor a Technicolor Idyll": Ongoing Dialogues in Modern African Literature (with Yakubu Saaka) A representative article: "The Rhetoric of Reproof," in College English (with JoAnne M. Podis), November 2000. Here is a link to the abstract (full text access requires membership in the National Council of Teachers of English): http://www.ncte.org/ce/abstracts/0632-nov00/Rhetoric.shtml
Courses, Fall 2007: ENGL 399/RHET 401 (1458/7393), Teaching and Tutoring Writing Across the Disciplines, TuTh 3:00-4:15 Back | Top of Page | Home   The English Department welcomes your Questions or Comments regarding this site-- e-mail The English Department Web Master >