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Degrees and Institutions:
Ph.D. English/Writing Studies, University of Illinois
M.A. English, Southwest Missouri State University (now Missouri State)
B.A. Political Science, University of Missouri
Courses Taught: ENG 381, Grammar and Writing, ENG 680, Introduction to Rhetoric and Composition
Area: Rhetoric and Writing
Research Interests: Writing and disciplinarity; writing and systems theory; ethics of writing research; feminist, rhetorical, and discourse analytic
theories; the role(s) writing plays in processes of disciplinary enculturation as well as in the production, maintenance,
and reproduction of the discipline of composition (and disciplinary systems in general); the ethics of both empirical research
(broadly understood to include ethnographic, qualitative methods) and textual/archival scholarship, particularly when different
methodological orientations come into conflict with each other.
Recent Publications:
“Learning to Write, Program Design, and the Radical Implications of Context.” Rev. of The End of Composition Studies by David W. Smit. Pedagogy 6 (2006): 179-88.
“Just What Are We Talking About? Disciplinary Struggle and the Ethnographic Imaginary.” Ethnography Unbound: From Theory Shock to Critical Praxis. Ed. Stephen G. Brown and Sidney I. Dobrin. Albany: State U of New York P, 2004. 259-81.
Feminism and Composition: A Critical Sourcebook (with Gesa Kirsch, Faye Spencer Maor, Lance Massey, and Mary Sheridan-Rabideau) Bedford/St. Martin's and NCTE, 2003.
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