Northern Illinois University
Department of Communication
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Associate Professor
Rhetoric and Public Communication

Profile

(Ph.D. University of Utah)
Specialties: rhetorical theory and criticism, women's rhetorical history, religion and American public argument, political theology and civil religion

Publications

• Woodyard, Kerith M. "Cuneiform to Comic: Redrawing Sarah in R. Crumb's The Book of Genesis Illustrated." Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 35.2 (2023): 72-95. Winner of the Religious Communication Association Article of the Year Award (2024).
• Woodyard, Kerith M. "Letters from Honest People' and 'Letters from Hell': Emergent Visceral Publics in Carrie Nation's Smasher's Mail." Journalism History 49.2 (2023): 110-139. 
• Woodyard, Kerith M. and Kathryn Cady. "All the Working Woman’s Friends: Protective Labor Legislation and the Early ERA Controversy."Women and Language1 (2019): 23-42.
• Woodyard, Kerith M. "Pussy Riot and the Holy Foolishness of Punk." Rock Music Studies 1 (2014): 268-286.
• Woodyard, Kerith M. “Depatriarchalizing in Rhetorical Theory: Toward a Feminist Prophetic Tradition.” Ohio Communication Journal 48 (2010): 27-42.
• Woodyard, Kerith M. “‘If By Martyrdom I Can Advance My Race One Step, I Am Ready for It’: Divine Ethos and the Reception of Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s The Woman’s Bible.” Journal of Communication and Religion 31 (Fall 2008): 272-326.