Jill Martins Swiencicki

Jill Swiencicki is an English professor at St. John Fisher University. Her research focuses on the rhetoric of U.S. social justice and civil rights movements, 19th-century American Literature, feminist activism, and writing studies. Her work appears in such journals as Women’s Studies in Communication, College English, Peitho, Liberal Education, and Prompt, as well as the edited collections Inclusive Aims, Feminist Connections, Going Public, Rhetorical Education in America, and Multiple Literacies for the 21st Century.

Recent Publications:

• “’Your body is your story . . . and only you can write it’: Feminist Placemaking at Planned Parenthood,” Gatherings: Studies in Feminism, Volume 1, 2024.
• “Brokering Reproductive Justice: Solidarity Rhetoric in Senator Wendy Davis’s Texas Filibuster,” Inclusive Aims: Rhetoric’s Role in Reproductive Justice, Eds. Heather Brook Adams and Nancy Myers. Parlor Press (Studies in Rhetorics and Feminisms series), 2024.
• “Writing as Memory Work: Teaching the Civic Deliberations over Monument Removals,” Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments, January 2022. Co-authored with Barbara Lowe.
• Rhetorics of Invitation and Refusal in Terry Tempest Williams’s 'The Open Space of Democracy,' Inviting Understanding: A Portrait of Invitational Rhetoric, 2020. Reprint.
• “Seneca Falls, Strategic Mythmaking, and a Feminist Politics of Relation,” Feminist Connections: Rhetorical Strategies from the Suffragists to the Cyberfeminists, 2020. Co-authored with Maria Brandt, Barbara LeSavoy, and Deborah Uman. Honorable Mention, Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award, 2022.
• “‘Consent Trumps Everything’: The Clothesline Art Project and the Election Politics of Sexual Assault,” Crafting Dissent: Handicraft as Protest from the American Revolution to the Pussyhats, 2019. Co-authored with Shannon DeHoff. 
• “Rhetorics of Invitation and Refusal in Terry Tempest Williams’s The Open Space of Democracy,” Women’s Studies in Communication, June 2015.