Profile
Leigh Jones is a rhetorician who joined Hunter College in 2006 after completing her PhD in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English at the University of Arizona.
Jones's research concentrates on the role of public and intraorganizational language in forming collective national identity. Her work has examined foundational documents from the Boy Scouts of America and other national organizations for boys whose language has helped define hegemonic national masculinity. Her
current book project focuses on American public memory of the Vietnam War, examining the language used by children of Vietnam Veterans to construct war memory and national identity.
Jones teaches in the English Department at Hunter and co-directs the English 120 course. She also teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in rhetorical theory and history, and composition studies. She has helped to organize the CUNY-wide Mina Shaughnessy Speaker Series on composition and rhetoric at Hunter and other campuses.