Emily Murphy Cope, Ph.D.
Division/Department
School of the Arts, Communication and Global Studies
Director, Center for Faculty Excellence
Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Composition
- English: Rhetoric, Writing, & Linguistics, Ph.D.
University of Tennessee
- FCO105: Rhetorical Communication
- WRT280: Research Methods in Writing Studies
- WRT320: Digital Writing
- WRT480: Senior Seminar in Professional Writing
- Rhetorical Education
- Religious Rhetoric
- Writing Teacher Preparation
- Evangelical Writing in a Secular Imaginary: The Academic Writing of Christian Undergraduates at a Public University. New York: Routledge, 2024.
- “To Splinter and Split: Mapping the Terrain of Evangelical Christian Rhetoric in the Age of Trump.” New Directions in Rhetoric and Religion. Ed. James Vining. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. With Holland Prior, Jeff Ringer, and Megan Von Bergen.
- “Compartmentalizing Faith: How Three First-Semester Undergraduates Manage Evangelical Identities in Academic Writing.” Research in the Teaching of English 54.4 (2020): 367-391.
- “‘Inspiration of Delivery’: John A. Broadus and the Evangelical Underpinnings of Extemporaneous Oratory.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 45.4 (2015): 279-299.
- “Learning Not to Preach: Beth Moore and the Rhetoric of Constraint.” Rhetoric, History, and Women’s Oratorical Education: American Women Learn to Speak. Ed. David Gold and Catherine Hobbs. New York: Routledge, 2013. 217-238.