Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Risa Applegarth

Associate Professor, Department of English

Email: risa_applegarth@uncg.edu
Phone: 336.334.3967
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Appointed through Spring 2025

Risa Applegarth received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and joined the UNCG Department of English in 2009. She teaches and conducts research in genre theory, feminist theory, and women’s rhetorics, as well as autobiography, nature writing, and science studies. Her dissertation on the rhetorical practices of early women anthropologists won her field’s 2010 James Berlin Memorial Outstanding Dissertation Award, and her publications include articles in Rhetoric Society Quarterly and CCC. Her first book, Other Grounds: Gender, Genre, and Science in American Anthropology, is forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press. Her current projects include a study of agency and materiality in debates surrounding the 1995 Children’s Peace Statue, and a book-length study of public activism and rhetorical training in Business and Professional Women’s Clubs in the 1920s and 1930s.