B.A., Duke University
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Anna Ioanes’s research and teaching focus broadly on 20th– and 21st-century American literature as well as theories of rhetoric and writing. In particular, she is interested in post-1945 American fiction; African American literature; cultural studies and visual culture; experimental and avant-garde literatures; women’s literature, gender studies, and feminist theory; literary theory and critical methods; multimodal rhetoric and composition; new media writing; and the digital humanities. Her scholarship has been published in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, the Minnesota Review, and JML: Journal of Modern Literature. With Douglas Dowland, she co-edited Violent Feelings, a special issue of the journal LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory. She is also a contributing editor at ASAP/J, the digital publication of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. Before joining the faculty at the University of St. Francis, she held a Marion L. Brittain postdoctoral fellowship at Georgia Tech. In the English department, she has taught courses including Teaching Composition, Writing in the Disciplines, American Literature 1965-Present, and Critical Theory. Additionally, she teaches Introduction to Literature, College Writing I, and Foundations II.
ENGL 200 | Introduction to Literature: Provides students with an extensive exploration of fiction, poetry, drama and/or film, and sometimes the literary essay. The components of these genres are examined in order that students will be knowledgeable and critical readers.
ENGL 317 | Writing in the Disciplines: Develops a general understanding of rhetorical contexts, organizational forms, styles, and formal conventions of writing in the professions and academic disciplines, and develops proficiency in the writing of one profession or discipline for both internal and external audiences.
ENGL 318 | Teaching Composition: Explores those aspects of writing that are learnable and teachable in the contexts of the history of writing instruction and cognitive, rhetorical, and pedagogical theories and practice.
ENGL 348 | American Literature 1965-Present: A study of American literature from the Vietnam War and the Black Power Movement to the present. This course includes writers such as Donald Barthelme, Alice Walker, and Thomas Pynchon, covering themes and genres specific to the period. It offers ways to study literature as the expression of ideas and cultural practices (such as those related to race, class, and gender, where appropriate) in a specific historical context.
ENGL 400 | Critical Theory: Introduces students to theoretical and philosophical thinking about literature as it treats the theory and practice of major types of literary criticism, both historical and contemporary.
ENGL 111 | College Writing I: Offers the student extensive practice in writing persuasive and referential prose.
ACAF 120 | Foundations II: The course is designed to be an inquiry-driven seminar that actively engages the students in developing the basic academic skills required of USF students: reading, writing and evidence-based and thesis-driven research and thinking. The course is disciplined based and focused on interesting question within the discipline.