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Pamela VanHaitsma

Pamela VanHaitsma

Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Science and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Sherwin Early Career Professor in the Rock Ethics Institute
226 Sparks Building
prv5@psu.edu
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Professional Bio

Pamela VanHaitsma is an associate professor of communication arts and sciences and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. VanHaitsma’s interdisciplinary scholarship bridges rhetoric, archives, and gender and sexuality studies. She is the author of Queering Romantic Engagement in the Postal Age: A Rhetorical Education (University of South Carolina Press 2019) and The Erotic as Rhetorical Power: Archives of Romantic Friendship between Women Teachers (Ohio State University Press 2024). Her scholarship has been recognized with the 2015 Charles Kneupper Award from the Rhetoric Society of America, the 2020 Winifred Bryan Horner Book Award Honorable Mention from the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, and the 2021 Randy Majors Memorial Award from the National Communication Association’s Caucus on GLBTQ Concerns. She is currently writing her third book about Rachel Carson, queer public memory, and intersectional environmentalism.