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Degrees and Institutions:
Ph.D., Michigan State University
M.A., Michigan State University
B.A., Heidelberg College
Courses Taught:
ENG 729 "Publication in Rhetoric & Writing"
ENG 620 "Teaching Writing"
Special Topic Seminars such as "Writing Administration", "Writing Across the University", "Advanced Writing Pedagogy"
ENG 484 Teaching Writing
ENG 150 "Response to Literature"
Area: Rhetoric and Writing
Research Interests: The nature of scholarship in composition studies, faculty work and its evaluation, writing pedagogy, writing across the curriculum,
writing and department administration.
Recent Publications:
"Scholarship of Engagement: New Name for or Challenge to The Work of Rhetoric," in The Responsibilities of Rhetoric (forthcoming in 2009).
"The Importance of Untenured Writing Administrators to Composition and English Studies," in Untenured Faculty as Writing Program Administrators: Institutional Practices and Politics (2007).
"Field Fragmentation and Non-Major Literature Courses" CEA Forum (2007).
"Scholarship of Teaching and Administration: An Elusive Goal for English Studies," in Teaching, Scholarship, and Service in the Twenty-First Century English Department (2004).
"Toward Understanding and Cooperation Among Teachers of Writing Teachers," Foreward to Teaching Writing Teachers of High School
English and First-Year Composition (2002).
"Reviewing and Refocusing Doctoral Education in Composition Studies,’ JAC, 22 (Spring 2002).
"Argument as Common Ground for Literature and Composition," CEA Forum 32.1 (Winter 2002).
"Administration as Focus for Understanding the Teaching of Writing," reprinted in Sourcebook for Writing Program Administrators (Longman, 2002)
"Balancing Theory with Practice in the Training of Writing Teachers," reprinted in On Writing Research: The Braddock Essays, 1975-98 (Bedford/St.Martin’s, 1999).
Academic Advancement in Composition Studies: Scholarship, Publication, Promotion, Tenure, co-edited collection (Lawrence Erlbaum. 1997).
Awards:
John Gerber 20th Century Leadership Award, 2000. Presented by the Conference on College Composition and Communication to six individuals who--through their teaching, professional
leadership, and mentoring of scholars, teachers and administrators--made major contributions to the furtherance of CCCC and
its objectives during the first fifty years of the organization.
Richard Braddock Award, 1978. Award for the outstanding article on rhetoric and composition in any 1977 publication of National Council of Teachers of English. "Balancing Theory with Practice in the Training of Writing Teachers," CCC, May 1977.
Service:
Editor of College Composition and Communication (CCC) from 1986 to 1993.
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