ELINORE HUGHES PARTRIDGE, Ph.D
Elinore H. Partridge received her Ph.D. in American Literature,
Linguistics, and Rhetoric from the University of California at Davis. She
recently retired after twenty-three years as a Professor in the English
Department at California State University, San Bernardino. She has taught
American Literature, Introductory Linguistics, Analysis of Poetry,
Fiction, Non-fiction Prose, Senior Seminars in Travel Literature and
Autobiographical Writing, Research Techniques, Advanced Expository
Writing, Western Rhetorical Traditions, Stylistics, and Professional
Writing. For five years before her retirement, she directed the Graduate
Program which offered an M.A. in Composition, Literature, and Linguistics,
and she remains in touch with many of her former students. Her
professional interests include nineteenth-century American literature, in
particular natural history writing, travel writing and nonfiction prose;
twentieth-century travel writing; literature and science; rhetoric and
stylistic analysis, and teaching English as a second language. Her more recent publications include American Prose
and Criticism, 1820-1900, “Nineteenth-century Travel Writing: Gender
and Genre,” “Adjusting Sights: Ways of Teaching and Reading Non-Fiction
Prose,” and “What Scientists Can Tell Science Writers About Writing.
At home, she enjoys reading for both information and for pleasure as well
as gardening and cooking. She reads French and German and can communicate
in those languages, but is really fluent in neither. She remains an active
hiker and boater (canoe and kayak) and has traveled to England, France,
Russia, Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, and Italy as well as in much of the
United Sates, including Alaska.
