Sarah Lonelodge

Director of the First-Year Writing Program
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition

Ph.D., Oklahoma State University, 2021
M.A., University of Central Oklahoma, 2013
B.A., University of Oklahoma, 2010

Office: Griffin 326
First-Year Writing Office: Griffin 214
Phone: 337-482-5491
E-mail: sarah.lonelodge@louisiana.edu

Pronouns: she/her

Teaching and Research Areas

Dr. Sarah Lonelodge is the Director of the First-Year Writing Program. She teaches courses centered on composition theory and pedagogy, and her research interests include writing program administration, composition theory and pedagogy, professional/technical communication, and public discourse as it relates to misinformation and propaganda.

Noteworthy

Lonelodge’s most recent book chapter, “Responding in Real Time: A Course in Rhetoric, Propaganda, Demagoguery, and Misinformation,” appears in Confronting Toxic Rhetoric: Writing Teachers’ Experiences of Rupture, Resistance, and Resilience. Editors White-Farnham, Molloy, and Siegel Finer write, “we believe the most useful strategy Lonelodge employed in helping students counter toxic rhetoric was teaching them to analyze current events as found on the daily in the media and to understand how that media works to persuade, sometimes in toxic ways…[Students] are now practiced in ‘identifying, analyzing, and responding to demagoguery, propaganda, and misinformation through various media,’ (pg. 108) and as Lonelodge says, they have learned to respond ‘in real time.’”

Sarah’s work also appears in Dynamic Activities for FYC; The International Journal of Coercion, Abuse, and Manipulation; The Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics; with Dr. Katie Reiger in The Invisible Professor and Xchanges; and in Programmatic Perspectives along with Dr. Katie Reiger, Dr. Christina Lane, and Lydia Welker. Sarah was also a guest on The Big Rhetorical Podcast, hosted by Dr. Charles Woods.

Lonelodge is currently working on several projects, including an OER textbook under contract with the WAC Clearinghouse, a collaborative article on mentorship written with Dr. Lynn Lewis, Dr. Christina Lane, and Dr. Jeaneen Canfield, and a report on co-requisite first-year writing models made possible by a grant from the Council of Writing Program Administrators.