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Muffy Walter

Assistant Professor of English Director of Composition
College of Arts and Sciences
Contact
Rm 112
Morgan Hall
1700 SW College Ave
Topeka, KS 66621-1117
785.670.1792
Degrees & Certifications
The University of Kansas, Bachelor of Arts
Univ of Missouri-Kansas City, Master of Arts
Univ of Missouri-Kansas City, Doctor of Philosophy
Teaching
  • EN 101 D, First Year Writing
  • EN 300 C, Advanced College Writing
Scholarly Interests/Activities
Rhetoric and composition, disability studies, memoirs/life writing, feminist rhetoric, composition pedagogy.
Service Interests/Activities
Director of Composition
Liaison for English Concurrent Enrollment Program
Career Accomplishments

Publications: 

Articles

Obermark, Lauren and Madaline (Muffy) Walter. “Mad Women on Display: Practices of Public Rhetoric at the Glore Psychiatric Museum.” Reflections: A Journal of Public Rhetoric, Civic Writing, and Service Learning 4.1 (2014). 58-80. 

“Fair Play: Lunatic Asylum Inmates Create Community With the Ladies’ Fair.” Journal of Interdisciplinary Research (2010): 47-70.

Phegley, Jennifer with Madaline [Walter] Guilfoil, Kristin Huston, Erin Speck, and Robert Haselwander. “Collaboration and The Periodical Press: Assigning a Group Project to Uncover Victorian Publishing Practices.” Victorian Periodical Review (Winter 2006): 343-356. 

Book Reviews
“Rethinking Bad Girls.” Review of Defining Deviance: Sex, Science, and Delinquent Girls, 1890-1960. Disability Studies Quarterly 34.2 (2014).

Awards and Fellowships (Selected)
Preparing Future Faculty Fellowship, University of Missouri-Kansas City (2006)
Sosland Teaching Award, University of Missouri-Kansas City (2008)
Distinguished Dissertation Research Fellowship, University of Missouri-Kansas City (2010)
Faculty Fellow, Benedictine College (2014)
Certificate of Teaching and Learning 2017-2018
Certificate of Teaching and Learning 2018-2019
Certificate of Inclusive Teaching and Learning 2018-2019
Certificate of Teaching and Learning 2019-2020
Certificate of Inclusive Teaching and Learning 2019-2020
Certificate of Teaching and Learning 2020-2021
Certificate of Inclusive Teaching and Learning 2020-2021
Certificate of Teaching and Learning 2021-2022
Certificate of Teaching and Learning 2022-2023
Certificate of Inclusive Teaching and Learning 2022-2023


Conference Presentations (Selected)
“Acknowledging and Facilitating Invisible Disabilities in the Classroom and Community.” Cultivate Session at the Conference on College Composition and Communication 2017

“Wielding a Crayon in the Battle for the ‘Mad’: Emilie Autumn’s The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls.” Conference on College Composition and Communication 2016

“Spoken but (Un)Seen: (In)visible Disability in the Composition Classroom” Conference 
on College Composition and Communication 2010

“More Than Technology: (Re)Envisioning Visual Literacy.” Co-presented with Lauren Obermark. Expanding Literacy Studies Conference for Graduate Students (The Ohio State) 2009

““It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World: Augusta Fischer’s Rhetorical Strategies in Searchlight” Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference 2007

“To Commit or Not to Commit: Fear of Asylum Commitment in Victorian 
England” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference 2007

Professional Activities and Associations:

  • Manuscript Review Board Member for Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal
  • Co-Chair, NCTE/CCCC Disability Studies Standing Group
  • National Council of Teachers of English
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