Biography
Catherine Prendergast is Professor of English at the University of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign. Her book, The Gilded Edge, is forthcoming from Dutton Press in October 2021.
Research Interests
- Rhetoric
- Writing Studies
- Disability Studies
- American History
- Film/Visual Culture
- Women's Lives
Education
- BA: Columbia University
- PhD: University of Wisconsin - Madison
Courses Taught
- Disability in Film
- Economies of Literacy
- Disability in Literature
- Advanced Composition
- Global English
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor Emerita, English
Highlighted Publications
Prendergast, C. J. (2021). The Gilded Edge: Two Audacious Women and the Cyanide Love Triangle That Shook America. Dutton.
Prendergast, C. (2008). Buying into English: Language and Investment in the New Capitalist World. (Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture). University of Pittsburgh Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt6wrdsf
Prendergast, C. (2003). Literacy and Racial Justice: The Politics of Learning after Brown v. Board of Education. Southern Illinois University Press.
Prendergast, C. J. (2015). Can I Use I?: Because I Hate Hate Hate College Writing. Out of Pocket Press.
Recent Publications
Prendergast, C. J. (2021). The Gilded Edge: Two Audacious Women and the Cyanide Love Triangle That Shook America. Dutton.
Prendergast, C. J. (2016). Reflection: Before #BlackLivesMatter. In T. M. Kennedy, J. I. Middleton, & K. Ratcliffe (Eds.), Rhetorics of Whiteness: Postracial Hauntings in Popular Culture, Social Media, and Education (pp. 89-91). Southern Illinois University Press.
Prendergast, C. (2016). The unexceptional schizophrenic: A post-postmodern introduction. In L. J. Davis (Ed.), The Disability Studies Reader (5 ed., pp. 232-241). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315680668-25
Prendergast, C. J. (2015). Can I Use I?: Because I Hate Hate Hate College Writing. Out of Pocket Press.
Prendergast, C. (2014). Mental disability and rhetoricity retold: The memoir on drugs. In D. Bolt (Ed.), Changing Social Attitudes Toward Disability: Perspectives from Historical, Cultural, and Educational Studies (pp. 60-67). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315849126-6