Sharon J. Kirsch

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Sharon J. Kirsch is Assistant Professor of English and Rhetorical Studies at Arizona State University, where she teaches courses in rhetorical, literary and critical theory, American literature, and women’s writing. Her current books projects include Gertrude Stein and the Canons of Rhetoric, which reinterprets an iconic literary figure as a major twentieth-century rhetorician, and a co-edited collection of essays, Primary Stein, which draws on recent cultural, historical, and biographical work and returns Stein studies to Stein’s primary works. Recent publications include “Two Exhibits, One Film, and the Pleasures of Gertrude Stein” in The Feminist Wire and “PR Guns for Hire: The Specter of Edward Bernays in Gadhafi’s Libya” in Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society.