Ph.D. Communication Texas A&M University

M.A. English Texas A&M University

B.A. English Baylor University

Courses include: Speaking for Technical Professions, Organizational Communication Seminar, American Oratory, Argumentation and Debate, Communication and Popular Culture, Introduction to Speech, Rhetorical Criticism, Rhetoric and Composition, Protest and Public Opinion, Political Rhetoric.

• Mercieca, Jennifer R. & M. Elizabeth Thorpe, “Tory Responses to the Colonial Rebellion: Traitors or Patriots?” Public Address Division, National Communication Association, November, 2006.
• Thorpe, M. Elizabeth. “Gender and Harry Potter.” American Culture/Pop Culture Association, April, 2007.
• Thorpe, M. Elizabeth. "McCarthy and Foucault." Rhetorical Society of America, May 2008.
• Thorpe, M. Elizabeth. “This is Not a Vampire: Angel as a Post-structural Exemplar.” Rhetorical Society of America, May 2010.

• Thorpe, M. Elizabeth. "'Under God:' Rhetorically Constructing American Identity via Epideictic Rhetoric." (under review)
• Thorpe, M. Elizabeth. "Gender, Science, and The Pill."
• Thorpe, M. Elizabeth. "Making American." (dissertation)

• Tiffany Hunnicut Memorial Graduate Teaching Award, Communication department, 2009.

• Rhetorical Society of American, 2008-2009
• Popular Culture Association, 2007-2008
• National Communication Association, 2006-2007

My research focuses on the rhetorical creation and maintenance of identity. I am particularly interested in the rhetorical dimensions of "American", "un-American", and how rhetoric assigns or denies agency because of gender, sex, race, class, and religion. I am comfortable with rhetorical criticism and theory application. My work has employed neo-Aristotelian criticism, close textual analysis, Burkean criticism, as well as post-structural analysis.

The College at Brockport Visiting Assistant Professor (Fall 2010 - Present)
Texas A&M Communication department, Instructor (2005-2010)
Texas A&M English department, Instructor (2004-2005)
Texas A&M Grader/TA, Film studies, 2003-2004
Baylor University, Grader/Middle English Transcriber, 1998-2001