Professor. B.A. cum laude, English, Middlebury College. M.F.A., Poetry and Fiction, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. M.A., English (Rhetoric), Carnegie Mellon University. Ph.D., English (Rhetoric and composition), Ohio State University.
Professor Sloane teaches graduate courses in writing studies,
computers and composition, and digital narratives, and undergraduate
courses in writing arguments, writing for the social sciences,
and modern women writers. She does research on narratives
written in new media (such as blogs, fanfics, and hyperfictions),
gender and writing, and narratology. The author of numerous
chapters in books about writing theory and the forms of experimental
short stories composed in new media, short interpretive essays
about contemporary poets, and a growing body of work about
eighteenth-century Scottish rhetoric, her first book, Digital
Fictions: Storytelling in a Material World, was published
by Greenwood: Ablex in 2000. Her second book, The I Ching
for Writers, was published in February 2005. Professor
Sloane has also authored or co-authored essays and reviews
in Composition Chronicle, Rhetoric Society Quarterly,
Reading Research Quarterly, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review,
Western American Literature, Educators' Tech Exchange, Education
of the Visually Handicapped, Parabola: Myth, Tradition,
and the Search for Meaning, and other journals. She
has served on the CCCC Executive Committee, the CCCC Committee
on the Status of Women in the Profession, the MLA Committee
on Emerging Technologies, and as a Special Delegate in Composition,
Rhetoric, and Writing to the Delegate Assembly of the MLA.
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