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Fayez Al-Ghamdi
B.Ed., English, King Saud University
M.A., Linguistics, UW-Madison
alghamdi [at] students [dot] wisc [dot] edu
Interests: rhetorical theory, postcolonial theory, cultural studies, and American
ethnic autobiography.
Dissertation title "The Rhetoric of Cultural Identity in Arab-American
Autobiography."
Julie
Nelson Christoph
Assistant Professor of English at the University of Puget Sound, where she
teaches courses on composition, literacy, history of rhetoric, writing and
gender, and autobiography. Her research interests include uses of the personal
in academic writing and the history of adult basic literacy instruction.
John
Duffy
Associate
Professor of English and the O'Malley Director of the University
Writing Program at the University of Notre Dame
John studies the historical development of literacy and rhetoric
in cross-cultural contexts. He has published articles on the concept
of "preliteracy," the uses of writing in a guerrilla army,
and the development of literacy in an immigrant community. His articles
have appeared in Written Communication, College Composition and Communication,
and other journals. He is coeditor (with Martin Nystrand) of Towards
a Rhetoric of Everyday Life, a 2003 volume of essays from the University
of Wisconsin Press. His book on the literacy history of Hmong refugees
from Laos is forthcoming from the University of Hawaii Press. John's
research has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities
and the U.S. Department of Education.
Eli
Goldblatt
Associate Professor of English and University Writing Director at Temple University
Eli taught at Villanova University from 1990-96 and is currently the University
Writing Director and an associate professor of English at Temple University.
Goldblatt works both as a composition/literacy researcher and a poet. In composition,
his focus in Round My Way: Authority and Double Consciousness in Three Urban
High School Writers (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995) was on authority
in writing, but in recent years he has published on literacy autobiography
and community-based learning. His current book project is Because We Live Here:
Reconceiving Writing beyond the Curriculum. His books of poems include Journeyman's
Song (Coffee House, 1990), Sessions 1-62 (Chax Press, 1991), Speech Acts (Chax
Press, 1999), and Without a Trace (Singing Horse Press, 2001). Goldblatt has
also published two children's books, Leo Loves Round and Lissa and the Moon's
Sheep, both from Harbinger House in 1990.
Nelson Graff is Assistant Professor of English at San Francisco State University.
David Grant
Assistant Professor, University of Northern Iowa
BA, Winona State University (Poetry Writing)
MA, Northern Arizona University (Comp/Rhet)
David [dot] Grant [at] uni [dot] edu
Interests: ecocomposition, rhetoric of science, pedagogy,
Native American cultures
Dissertation Title: Sustainable Literacies: Development
of Students’ Concepts of Nature in an Experiential, Postsecondary
Writing Course.
Affiliations: ASLE-CCCC, Writing Center Outreach
staff (working with L & S Honors program especially), Online
Writing Center Staff
Mary Juzwik is Assistant
Professor of Language and Literacy in the Department of Teacher
Education at Michigan State University.
Mary she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in discourse, writing,
and literacy teaching and learning. Her research focuses on classroom discourse,
writing and writing pedagogy, and linguistic and cultural diversity in teaching
and learning.
Stephanie
L. Kerschbaum (PhD, 2005)
Stephanie is an Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M
University, College Station where she teaches graduate and undergraduate
courses
on the
history of rhetoric, contemporary rhetorical theory, and discourse
studies. Her research focuses on attention to difference in interpersonal
communication, relationships between writing and learning about/with
others, and the history of rhetorical education.
Adam Koehler (PhD, 2008)
Assistant Professor, Manhattan College
Minor: Creative Writing
BA, English, John Carroll University (2002)
MA, English Literature, John Carroll University (2004)
amkoehler [at] wisc [dot] edu
Interests: composition pedagogy, critical theory, creative writing, writing
center pedagogy, cultural studies/rhetorics, and contemporary literature
Rhea Estelle Lathan (PhD 2006)
BA, Africology and English, UW-Milwaukee
MA, Afro-American Studies, UW-Madison
relathan [at] wisc [dot] edu
Interests: literacy in nonacademic communities, writing instruction,
and composition studies.
Rhea is an Assistant Professor in the Writing, Rhetoric and American
Cultures Department at Michigan State University. Her research investigates
how literacy is
defined and
how it functions, in the
context Adult Literacy Campaign
of the
Civil
Rights
Movement.
She has been awarded a 2005 Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowships
in Women’s Studies to support her dissertation research, “Literacy,
Legacy, and Liberation: The Citizenship Education Program of the South
Carolina Sea Islands, 1956 to 1962.”
Corey Mead (PhD, 2008)
Assistant Professor, Baruch College, City University of New York
Minor: Games, Learning, and Society / Curriculum & Instruction (Literacy)
BA, English, University of Iowa
MFA, Creative Writing, University of Washington
cdmead [at] wisc [dot] edu
Teaching interests: Beginning and Intermediate Composition, Poetry Writing
Research interests: The application of avant-garde poetics to the teaching
of composition; literacy studies; new media; and digital literacies
Dissertation: "All but war is simulation": The Military-Entertainment
Complex and the Future of Literacy
Rebecca
Nowacek
Rebecca teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in
rhetorical history, composition theory, literacy, and advanced
composition. She has articles forthcoming in College Composition and
Communication
and Research in the Teaching of English. Rebecca is also a Carnegie
Scholar with the Carnegie Foundation’s Academy for the Scholarship
of Teaching and Learning, and is currently at work on a manuscript
on the role of writing in an interdisciplinary general education
program.
Mary Lou Odom
Assistant Professor at Kennesaw State University
Kevin Porter (PhD, 2002)
Kevin is Assistant Professor of English at the University
of Texas at Arlington, where he teaches courses in rhetoric and composition
studies, with an emphasis on its collisions and collusions with critical
theory, hermeneutics, literary theory, philosophy, and semiotics. His book,
Meaning, Language, and Time: Toward a Consequentialist Philosophy of Discourse
(Parlor Press), was published in March, 2006; and his essays have appeared
in, among other places, College Composition and Communication, College
English, Cultural Critique, JAC, and SubStance.
He is currently working
on a book-length
project tentatively entitled Ignorance and the (In)Dispensability of Knowledge:
New Directions for Composition Studies, Critical Theory, and Rhetoric and
an edited collection entitled Meaning: Essential Readings across and beyond
the Disciplines, 1838-present.
Catherine
Prendergast
Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Illinois
at Urbana/Champaign
Cathy is author of Literacy and Racial Justice: The Politics of Learning after
Brown v. Board of Education,which received the 2004 W. Ross Winterowd Award.
Her interest in the intertwining histories of race and literacy have led to
her cooperations with the Urban League and area underserved high schools. Her
current book-in-progress, Buying into English: Language and Belief in a Postcommunist
State, examines the rapid spread of English language use and instruction in
Slovakia following the fall of communism.
Eric Pritchard (PhD 2008)
Assistant Professor, University of Texas-Austin
Minor: African American/Women's Studies
MA, Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
BA, English-Liberal Arts, Lincoln University - Magna Cum Laude
edpritchard [at] wisc [dot] edu
Interests: critical theory; community - based writing;
critical discourse
analysis; teacher education; the literate and rhetorical practices
of
Black LGBT people; hip hop literacies; African and African American
Literature; Black Feminist Theory; equity and access in education.
Alice
J. Robison (PhD 2006)
Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
Minor: Games, Learning & Society / Curriculum & Instruction (Literacy)
BA & MA, English, University of Kansas
ajr [at] mit [dot] edu
Following her PhD at UW-Madison, Alice spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow and special faculty in the Comparative Media Studies
Program at MIT, where Alice conducted ethnographic research on videogame design as
a writing process and its implications for pedagogies of rhetoric and literacy.
She also teaches graduate courses on videogame theory and media literacy while
consulting on two literacy-and-videogames grant projects. A founding member
of the Games and Professional Practice Simulations (GAPPS) and "Room 130" videogames
and literacy learning research teams at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Alice has worked since 2002 to pioneer the emerging scholarship in the area
of games and literacy learning. In an effort to show how many videogame designers
work to create games that inspire progressive literacy activities, Alice has
presented and published her work on videogame design in the U.S. and abroad.
She is an experienced classroom teacher and the recipient of several campus-wide
teaching awards, including the Capstone Ph.D. Teaching Award from the University
of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dissertation: "Inventing Fun: Videogame Design as a Writing
Process and its Implications for Literacy Pedagogy"
Shifra Sharlin
Minor: Russian history
MA, Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley
AB, Ancient Greek, University of California, Berkeley
shifrasharlin [at] yahoo [dot] com
Interests: Contextualizing writing and culture. Genre theory.
Cultural geography. Dissertation title: "Cringing About Culture: The City
Looks at the Provinces."
Bonnie
Kathryn Smith
Assistant Professor, Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee
PhD Major: Composition and Rhetoric
PhD Minor: Curriculum & Instruction (Literacy)
BA, English, University of the South (Sewanee)
MA, English with emphasis in writing, University of Tennessee
smithbk at mail.belmont.edu
Interests: literacy, reading & writing groups, social and contemplative
justice, service-learning, writing across the curriculum, first-year
seminars, advanced writing curricula, and bluegrass
Bryan
Trabold is Assistant Professor of Foundations of the Liberal
Arts and Associate Director of the Writing Center at Transylvania
University.
Tisha Turk
BA, Oberlin College (1995)
MA, UW-Madison (1997)
PhD, UW-Madison (2005)
Tisha is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Minnesota
at
Morris, where she also coordinates the writing program and directs
the writing
center. She teaches introductory composition courses and advanced
courses in
creative nonfiction, composition theory, narrative theory, and
eighteenth-century British fiction. Her research explores what we
can learn from
looking at fictional narratives through the lens of rhetoric -- that
is,
treating novels as rhetorical situations.
Jeff Wiemelt is Associate Professor of English and Director of the writing
center at Southeastern Louisiana University.
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