Greetings!

Welcome to my blog for my English 1301: Composition I course.  My name is Dr. Rochelle Gregory, and I am an English Instructor and Honors Coordinator at North Central Texas College in Corinth, Texas. I teach Composition I, Composition II, and Technical Writing.

As a scholar of rhetoric and composition, I believe, like Fred Newton Scott, that "[w]e are not here to drill pupils in spelling, punctuation, and grammar, but to bestow upon them the potentiality of service to thousands and perhaps millions of their [people]—to develop in them the power to move humanity to noble deeds by the communication of the truth.”  I encourage students to “move humanity” and find their “truths” by exploring the representations of themselves and others in the texts that surrounds them—advertisements, novels, blogs, newspapers, films, television, and music.

My first love has always been writing.  I earned my Bachelor's and Master's degrees in English from Tarleton State University, and in December 2009, I completed my Ph.D. in Rhetoric at Texas Woman's University.  My doctoral dissertation argues that the identification of autistic individuals as "living computers" in public discourses illustrates contemporary scientific and technological anxieties.  My diverse teaching experiences and academic research interests have enabled me to study, read, and teach on subjects in Composition Theory/History, Writing Program Administration, Visual Rhetoric, Disability Rhetoric, Technical Writing, Film Studies, Study Abroad, Honors Education, and British Literature.

I am originally from Dublin, Texas, although I've lived in Hawaii, Arizona, and Germany. I moved to Denton, Texas in 2004 to pursue my Ph.D. in Rhetoric at Texas Woman's University.  I spend most of my time writing, reading, grading, course prepping, exercising, and keeping my two sons, Alex and Tobey, from pulling the house up from its foundation.  I've also enjoyed traveling in recent years to Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France, Spain, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Thailand.  

And, occasionally, I find time to wash dishes and fold laundry.   Occasionally.