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Dr. Wendy L. Chrisman is a writing, rhetoric, and literature instructor at the Columbus College of Art & Design. Her research interests include cultural and rhetorical studies,critical theory, disability studies and the medical humanities, mental health narratives, and animal and environmental advocacy. She received her BA in English at the University of Central Florida, and her MA and PhD in English at The Ohio State University. A former lecturer at The Ohio State University’s Department of English and guest lecturer at the Nisonger Center’s LEND program, her publications and collaborations have appeared in Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, Prose StudiesDisability Studies QuarterlyLore: The StairwellRadical Relevance: Essays Toward a Scholarship of the Whole Left, and Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies. Email:  WChrisman@ccad.edu 🔺 LinkedIn

 

 

 

Lady Rhetoric (Dame Rhetorica)  

Image on a plate 23. 

From the Mantegna Tarocchi Pack, E-series, number XXIII.  c. 1465.

(Original Engraver Unknown, Late 15th Century) 

 

 

Origins of Dame Rhetorica & The Seven Liberal Arts

 

  • Martianus Capella. De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii (“On the Marriage of Philology and Mercury”). De Septem Disciplinis (“On the Seven Disciplines” or “The Seven Liberal Arts). c. 400ad.

 

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