Jessica Ketcham

Lecturer

PhD, Rhetoric, Writing, and Cultural Studies, Department of English, Louisiana State University
Doctoral Certificate, Women’s and Gender Studies, Louisiana State University
Graduate Certificate, User Centered Design, Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering, University of Washington
BA (dual degrees), Creative Writing and Literature, Louisiana State University

Email: jketcham@uw.edu
Office: CC1-245

Recent Courses Taught

BWRIT 132/133 Composition Stretch
BWRIT 134 Composition
BWRIT 135 Research Writing

Selected Publications

Creative Nonfiction

• “Dependent” forthcoming in The Lincoln Review, Spring 2025 issue.

Scholarship

• “The Chaos of Kairos: Discourses of Timing and Choice” in Staging Women’s Lives in Academia: Performing Life Stages in Language and Literature Workplaces. Michelle Masse and Nan Bauer-Maglin, Eds. SUNY Press, 2017.
• “Techno-Mob Movements: Public Performances and the Collective Voices of Outsiders” in Agency in the Margins: Stories of Outsider Rhetoric. Anne Stockdell-Giesler, Ed. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2010.
• “Action First: Towards a Pedagogy of Kairotic Moments and Ephemeral Texts.” Peitho, 11.1, 2009, 20-28.
• “Subvert this Image. Negotiating Multiple Literacies & Deconstructing Consumerism through Photoshop” in Teaching in the Pop Culture Zone: Using Popular Culture in the Writing Classroom. Allison Smith, Ed. Thompson Wadsworth Press, 2008, 109-119.
• “Out of Muted Silence: Writing Through the Gaps in Julia Kristeva’s ‘Stabat Mater’” in Future of Identity. European Studies Research Institute’s Series on Contemporary History and Politics, Vol. 30 University of Salford Press, 2005, 15-29.