Suzanne Bordelon, Ph.D.
Professor and Undergraduate Advisor
College of Arts and Letters
Rhetoric and Writing Studies
SDSU
Bio
Suzanne Bordelon is a professor and former chair of the department. Much of her research has focused on women’s rhetorical practices and pedagogies of the late-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. More recently, she has examined the rhetoric surrounding segregation arguments involving Mexican-origin students during the early decades of the twentieth century in the American Southwest. Currently, she is working on a larger project investigating several early school segregation lawsuits in California and Texas.
Bordelon is the author of "A Feminist Legacy: The Rhetoric and Pedagogy of Gertrude Buck." Her writing has also appeared in Advances in the History of Rhetoric, College Composition and Communication, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Rhetoric Review, the Journal of Teaching Writing, JAC: A Quarterly Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Rhetoric, Culture, and Politics, and other journals. She is an ex officio member of the Advisory Board of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition.