Violet Dutcher

Dr. Vi Dutcher is a professor of rhetoric and composition and teaches writing courses. Prior to coming to EMU, she taught writing and women’s studies courses at Kent State University—Stark Campus. She has also taught at The University of Akron and Cuyahoga Community College. She enjoys linking her courses to community partnerships where students produce a deliverable product for a specified need in an organization. Her research interests are community literacy practices in general and Amish and Mennonite female literacy practices in particular.

B.A. Kent State University
M.A. The University of Akron
Ph.D. Kent State University

”’Hurry Back!’: the Circle Letter as Communal Liaison in Anabaptist Female Literacy Practice” Mennonite Literature Website.

“Grandma’s Sugar Cookies” Hunger and Thirst anthology. City Works Press, 2008.

“Learning Politics in the First Grade.” After the Bell. Eds. Maggie Anderson and David Hassler. University of Iowa Press, 2007.

“The Enduring Strength of Recovered and Traditional Stories.” Magistra: A Journal of Women’s Spirituality in History Winter 2006.

“Book Review” of Countryside Cooking and Chatting, published by Herald Press, 2006 in Mennonite Weekly Review and Canadian Mennonite

“Autoethnography.” Encyclopedia of Women’s Autobiography. Eds. Victoria Boynton and Jo Malin. 2 vols. Greenwood Press, 2005.

“Writing Without the ‘Protection of Angels’: Notes from the Middle Voice.” Feminism/s 4 (2004): 39-59.

“Writing Community Boundaries.” Anabaptist-Mennonite Scholars Network Newsletter 7.1 Spring 2004.

“The Composition Classroom: Sites of Feminist Transformation”
58th Conference on College Composition and Communication
New York City, March 2007

“’Hurry Back!’: The Circle Letter as Communal Liaison in Anabaptist Female Literacy Practice”
Mennonite/s Writing: Beyond Borders
Bluffton, Ohio, October 2006

Park View Church Council member

Conference on College Composition and Communication’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession, member

Summer Teaching Grant 2008
Quality Service Award, Second Quarter 2007-2008
Summer Teaching Grant 2007
Faculty Release Time Award 2007-2008

Anabaptist-Mennonite Scholars Network
The Anabaptist Sociology & Anthropology Association
The Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric
and Composition
Council of Writing Program Administrators
International Writing Across the Curriculum Programs
Mennonite Literary Society
Modern Language Association
National Council of Teachers of English
Rhetoric Society of America
Southeastern Writing Center Association

Academic & Professional Writing
Speech Communication
Reading & Writing I
Peer Tutoring Practicum

Language & Literature Department, chair
Writing Program, director
Writing Committee, chair
Undergraduate Council, member
Global Village Curriculum Committee, member
Committee on Teacher Education, member
Faculty Senate, member
Search Committee for Language & Literature, chair
Ad Hoc Committee, Academic Integrity Policy Revision, chair