Dr. Elizabeth Weiser

244 Warner Center 
1179 University Drive 
Newark, OH 43055

Areas of Expertise

• Rhetoric and writing studies
• Museum studies
• Cultural theory

Education

• PhD, Texas Christian University, 2004
• MFA, Texas State University, 1999
• MA, American University, 1989
• BA, University of St. Thomas, 1985

Selected Research

• Museum Rhetoric: Building Civic Identity in National Spaces. Old Mian: Penn State UP, 2017.
• Burke, War, Words: Rhetoricizing Dramatism. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2008. [external link]
• George, Ann, Elizabeth Weiser, and Janet Zepernick, eds. Women and Rhetoric between the Wars. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2013.
• Weiser, Elizabeth, Brian Fehler, and Angela Gonzalez, eds. Engaging Audience: Writing in an Age of New Literacies. Urbana: NCTE Press, 2009.
• "With Our Hearts in La Boca: Violence and Identification in La Bombonera.” Iconic Sports Venues: Persuasion in Public Spaces. Ed. Mark Huglen and Danielle Johannesen, Peter Lang. 2017. 87-106.
• The Fertile Earth and the Ordered Cosmos: Reflections on the Newark Earthworks and World Heritage.
  • edited by Elizabeth Weiser, Timothy Jordan, and Richard Shiels. The Ohio State University Press, June 2023.
  • "It is Time to Prepare for Earthworks Tourism"
  • "Complicated History is Built into Our Landscape"
  • "Want a Better Community? Be Awestruck"
• Weiser, Elizabeth; Low, John; Madsen, Kenneth. 2019. "One site, many interpretations: managing heritage at an ancient American site," in Smeds, K. and Davis, A. (Eds.) Museum & Place.  Paris: ICOFOM (International Committee for Museology), pp. 138-161.