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Peter Leslie Mortensen

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Education

  • Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 1989
  • B.A., University of California, San Diego (Revelle College), 1983

Research Interests

History of rhetoric and literacy in the U.S., qualitative study of literacy, research ethics

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Research Output

Afterword

Mortensen, P. L., 2015, Rereading Appalachia: Literacy, place, and cultural resistance. Webb-Sunderhaus, S. & Donehower, K. (eds.). Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, p. 199-212 (Place matters: new directions in Appalachian studies).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

The work of illiteracy in the rhetorical curriculum

Mortensen, P. L., Dec 1 2012, In : Journal of Curriculum Studies. 44, 6, p. 761-786 26 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    • Thirty-five questions

    Mortensen, P., Jan 1 2012, In : Advances in the History of Rhetoric. 15, 1, p. 109-118 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    • Symposium: How I Have Changed My Mind

    Anson, C., Cooper, M., Desai, G., Gere, A. R., Gilbert, P. K., Gilyard, K., Harris, J., Lee, V., Miller, S., Mortensen, P. L., Shumway, D., Sommers, N. & Vitanza, V. J., Nov 2011, In : College English. 74, 2, p. 106-130

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate

    What Do We Want from Books?

    Mortensen, P. L., 2008, In : College Composition and Communication. 60, 1, p. 193-225

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article

    Activities

    • 8 Oral presentation

    Surfacing Multiliteracies in Narratives of Literacy and Illiteracy: Historical Considerations, Ethical Implications

    Peter Leslie Mortensen (Speaker)

    2010

    Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation

    Revisiting Assumptions in Historical Research on Literacy: A Necessary Prelude to Activism

    Peter Leslie Mortensen (Speaker)

    Apr 8 2016

    Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation

    Town, Village, Farm: Another Look at Early Twentieth-Century Mass Literacy

    Peter Leslie Mortensen (Speaker)

    Mar 18 2017

    Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation

    Revisiting Histories of Literacy

    Peter Leslie Mortensen (Speaker)

    Oct 21 2016

    Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation

    Finding the Words: Tracking Narratives of Literacy and Illiteracy in the American Experience

    Peter Leslie Mortensen (Speaker)

    2012

    Activity: Talk types › Oral presentation

    Honors & Recognition

    CCCC Richard Braddock Award

    Mortensen, Peter Leslie (Recipient) & Gesa E Kirsch (Recipient), 1994

    Prize