Lance Massey, Assistant Professor

lmassey@bgnet.bgsu.edu

404 East Hall
419-372-7546

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.