Christine Mason Sutherland is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary, where she teaches the history of rhetoric and other courses in Communications. She has published on the rhetoric of Augustine of Hippo and on scientific rhetoric in the seventeenth century. In recent years, her research has been in the relationship of seventeenth century women to the rhetorical tradition. She has published many essays on Margaret Cavendish and Mary Astell.