Our guest is Carolyn Skinner. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Ohio State University, where she teaches courses on women’s rhetoric and the history of rhetoric, as well as courses in writing. Prof. Skinner is currently working on a book manuscript that examines the speech and writing of nineteenth-century American women physicians. Prof. Skinner’s work has appeared in Rhetoric Review and Rhetoric Society Quarterly.

We discuss Prof. Skinner’s article “‘She Will Have Science’: Ethos and Audience in Mary Gove’s Lectures to Ladies” published in Rhetoric Society Quarterly 39.3 (July, 2009): 240-259.