Lori Arnold, Ph.D.

Biography

Lori Arnold holds a PhD in English from Texas A&M University with an emphasis on Rhetoric and Composition. She also holds a BA and MA from the University of Houston Clear Lake in Literature. As a student at UHCL, Lori tutored in the UHCL Writing Center, where she developed a passion to see students succeed in becoming skilled writers. This prompted her transition from studying Literature (her master's thesis focused on Jane Austen) to a specialty in Rhetoric and Composition for her PhD.

Lori has several years of experience teaching courses in first year writing, technical writing, advanced composition, and rhetoric at Texas A&M University and San Jacinto College. At UHCL she draws upon not only her experience with students from a wide-range of backgrounds, but also her own experience as a student at UHCL to meet the learning needs of students ranging from first time in college to juniors and seniors learning to address the writing needs of their majors.

Her research focuses on the intersection of life writing and motherhood in online discourse communities. She considers the influence of neoliberal ideologies on mothering values that may be assumed normal or natural, but instead support and reinforce capitalist values. Her dissertation considers the methods women use to develop digital discourse communities through sharing narratives of their experiences giving birth.