Emily Dowd-Arrow

I have been an instructor of college Composition since 2003. Since 2010, I have taught a variety of undergraduate courses, including Composition, Research Writing, Research Methods, Rhetoric, and American Literature, British Literature, and World Literature classes at ABAC Bainbridge.

I have co-taught graduate-level courses in Composition Pedagogy.

I also teach college Physical Education courses in Yoga.

My research focuses on eighteenth-century British periodicals and novels, particularly by women, and their construction of discourse and discourse communities. I look at the ways in which female writers sought to create more comprehensive, conversational spaces for themselves within the periodical and novel markets. My most current research focuses on the intersection of eighteenth-century periodicals and novels and English legal practices around sexual assault and victim testimony. I presented my initial research, entitled “’Receiving the Impression’ of Rape: An Evolution in Eliza Haywood’s Female Spectator to The Invisible Spy”, at the annual SEASECS conference in February 2019, and a chapter on that work will be published in a a special collection on Eliza Haywood through Routledge press.

My chapter entitled “A Spectator View: Teaching The Female Spectator with Eighteenth-Century Rape Narratives” cam out in the MLA’s 2019 edition Teaching Eliza Haywood, in which I discuss pedagogical strategies for teaching eighteenth century texts to two-year college students. Ultimately, the way we look at these earliest constructions—and reconstructions—of media offers us insights into the way we are experiencing and constructing those spaces today.

I am the faculty advisor for the ABAC Bainbridge creative arts journal, Adroit. Adroit is an all-volunteer student publication, featuring the creative talents of SW Georgia. Adroit publishes faculty, community members, and students of all ages.

Adroit staff members have the opportunity to promote, select, edit, learn publishing and photoshop software, website management, and more.

I also serve as a Faculty Advisor to the Academic Achievement Center.

If you are one of my Advisees, please email me for an appointment!