KRISTIE S. FLECKENSTEIN, associate professor, joined the FSU faculty in Fall 2006. She has published more than 40 articles and book chapters on subjects that cluster around her research interests of materiality, visual literacy, feminist theory, and composition pedagogy. Recipient of the 2005 Conference on College Composition and Communication Outstanding Book of the Year Award for her monograph, Embodied Literacies: Imageword and a Poetics of Teaching, she is the author of the forthcoming Vision, Rhetoric, and Social Action in the Composition Classroom in which she explores the conjunction of visual habits with rhetoric in social action. Her current book project, Picture Perfect, Word Perfect, investigates the intersection of nineteenth-century photography and rhetoric, particularly as manifested in issues of race and gender.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Books

• Vision, Rhetoric, and Social Action in the Composition Classroom (Southern Illinois UP, fall 2009)
• Ways of Seeing, Ways of Speaking: The Integration of Rhetoric and Vision in Constructing the Real. (Co-edited with Sue Hum and Linda Calendrillo. Parlor P, 2007)
• Embodied Literacies: Imageword and a Poetics of Teaching. (Southern Illinois UP, 2003)
• Imagery and Language in the Reading-Writing Classroom: Teaching Vision. (Co-edited with Linda Calendrillo and Demetrice Worley. Erlbaum, 2002)

Recent Articles/Chapters

• "Incarnate Word: Verbal Image, Body Image, and the Rhetorical Authority of Saint Catherine of Siena." Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture 6.2 (July 2009).
• "A Portable Ecology: Supporting New Media Writing and Laptop-Ready Pedagogy at Ball State University." Technological Ecologies and Sustainability: Methods, Modes, and Assessment. Ed. Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, Heidi A. McKee, Richard Selfe. Computers and Composition Digital Press, an imprint of Utah State University Press, 2009.
• "Decorous Spectacle: Mirrors, Manners, and Ars Dictaminis in Late Medieval Civic Engagement." Rhetoric Review 28 (2009): 111-27.
• "The Importance of Harmony: An Ecological Metaphor for Writing Research." College Composition and Communication 60 (2008): 388-419. (With Clay Spinuzzi, Rebecca Rickly, and Carole Clark Papper).
• "A Matter of Perspective: Cartesian Perspectivalism and the Testing of English Studies." JAC 28 (2008): 85-121.
• "Once Again with Feeling: Empathy in Deliberative Discourse." JAC 27 (2007): 701-16.
• "Who's Writing? Aristotelian Ethos and the Author Position in Digital Poetics." Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy 11.3 (May 2007). 29 May 2007. http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/11.3/topoi/fleckenstein/index.html
• "Between Perception and Articulation: Imageword and a Compassionate Place." The Locations of Composition. Ed. Christopher Keller and Christian Weisser. Albany: State U of New York P, 2007. 151-70.
• "In the Blood of the Word: Embodied Rhetorical Authority in St. Catherine of Siena's Dialogue." Sizing Up Rhetoric. Ed. David Zarefsky and Elizabeth Benacka. Long Grove, IL: Waveland P, 2007. 287-96.

Work in Progress

• Picture Perfect, Word Perfect: Nineteenth-Century Photography and the Rise of a Modern Rhetoric (A book-length exploration of the intersection of photography and rhetoric in the United States between 1839 and 1908, especially as played out in issues of race and gender)