Kristine Blair, Ph.D. (Purdue University) -- Chair, Department of English

kblair@bgnet.bgsu.edu

http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/english/kblair/

Areas of Specialization: Computer-Mediated Composition, Gender and
Technology, Technology and Teacher Training, Electronic Teaching
Portfolios, Cultural Studies and Composition.

Current Work in Progress: Dr. Blair is working on two new book projects: the first is a co-edited collection with Radhika Gajjala (Comm. Studies) and Christine Tulley (Rhetoric Grad., 2001), Webbing Cyberfeminist Practice; and the second is a cultural studies and technological literacy textbook titled CrossCurrents: Cultures, Communities, and Technologies, under contract to Thomson/Wadsworth. She, along with S&TC colleagues Jude Edminster and Andrew Mara, are the co-principle investigators on a $20,000 Ohio Learning Network Grant for an in-house technological professional development program for graduate students and faculty titled the "Digital Literacy and Communication Studio." Dr. Blair is also the editor of Computers and Composition Online, hosted at BGSU.

Publications: co-authored Grammar for Language Arts Teachers (Longman, 2003), a recent article in the 20th anniversary special print issue of Computers and Composition, "Cui Bono?: Revisiting the Promises and Perils of Online Learning" (with rhetoric grad. Elizabeth Monske) and a chapter "E-Writing as Safe, Gender-Fair Havens: Aligning Political and Pedagogical Possibilities," in the collection Teaching Writing with Computers: An Introduction (with rhetoric grad. Christine Tulley), winner of the 2002 Computers and Composition Book of the Year Award. Co-edited collection Feminist Cyberscapes: Mapping Gendered Academic Spaces (Ablex, 1999); Co-authored textbook, Cultural Attractions/Cultural Distractions: Critical Literacy in Contemporary Contexts (Prentice Hall, 2000); monograph (with Alice Calderonello) Discipline Analysis: Composition (National Center for Curriculum Transformation, Towson Univ. Press, 1999). Other articles and reviews in Computers and Composition; Kairos, Technical Communication Quarterly, Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Works and Days, The Writing Instructor.

Courses Typically Taught: English 728: Computer-Mediated Writing Theory and Practice; English 726: Research in Composition; English 780: Online Learning for English Educators; English 381: Grammar and Writing; as well as other fully online and classroom technology courses. Dr. Blair was recently named the Outstanding Contributor to Graduate Education for 2003-04 by the Graduate Student Senate.

Sue Carter Wood, Ph.D. (University of Texas at Austin)

carters@bgnet.bgsu.edu

Areas of Specialization: Composition history, rhetorical history, the history of writing instruction, women's rhetorics and rhetorical traditions.

Publications: "Using the Needle as Sword: Needlework
as Epideictic Rhetoric in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union" in Rhetorical Agendas: Political, Ethical, Spiritual (2005); Perspectives on Academic Writing (1997); "Constructing Writers: Barrett Wendell's Pedagogy at Harvard" in College Composition and Communication (1995), essays in Nineteenth-Century Women Learn to Write and in Perspectives on Plagiarism and Intellectual Property in a Postmodern World; reviews in JAC, Composition Chronicle, and College Composition and Communication.

Classes typically taught: English 722: History of Rhetoric to the Enlightenment; English 780: History of Rhetoric and Composition, Enlightenment to Contemporary Times; English 620: The Teaching of Writing; special topics seminars including Silence, Voice, and Rhetorical Action; Voice and Writing; Teaching Advanced Composition; Women's Rhetorical Traditions; Women and Writing.

Bruce Edwards, Ph.D. ( University of Texas at Austin)

edwards@bgnet.bgsu.edu

http://personal.bgsu.edu/~edwards

Areas of specialization: C. S. Lewis and the Inklings. Communications theory; nonfiction prose; rhetorical theory; interdisciplinary studies; linguistics; writing pedagogy; religion and literature; literary and critical theory; Southern U. S. Literature; Distance Education; African Literature.

Publications: The C. S. Lewis Readers Encyclopedia. Editorial Board. (Zondervan, 1998). Wrote/co-wrote 35 entries; Searching for Great Ideas: Conversations Between Past and Present. (Harcourt, 1997). 2nd Edition. With Thomas Klein and Thomas Wymer; The Taste of the Pineapple: Essays on C. S. Lewis as Critic, Reader, and Imaginative Writer (Bowling Green: The Popular Press, 1988); Processing Words: Writing and Revising with a Microcomputer (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1987), A Rhetoric of Reading: C. S. Lewis's Defense of Western Literacy (Provo: BYU Press, 1986); Roughdrafts: The Process of Writing. With Alice Heim Calderonello (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin Co., 1986); The Tagmemic Contribution to Composition Teaching (Manhattan, KS: Kansas State University Monograph Series, 1979). [For a more complete list, please click on the link to Dr. Edwards' home page.]

Research Interests: Distance Education, African Literature, Computer-mediated Discourse, C. S. Lewis and the Inklings, The Bible as Literature, U. S. Southern Women Writers (O'Connor, Welty, McCullers, Porter, Hurston)

Classes Taught: English 582: Computer-Assisted Composition Instruction; English 604: Nonfiction Writing for Publication; English 620: The Teaching of Writing, ACS/English 675: Seminars in American Culture Studies: Belief and Unbelief in American Fiction; Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism in American Culture, English 724: The Rhetoric of Written Discourse; English 726: Research in Composition; English 729: Research and Publishing in Rhetoric and Writing; English 774: Modern Southern U.S. Women Writers; English 780: Tagmemic Discourse Theory.

Richard Gebhardt, PhD (Michigan State University) -- Director of the Rhetoric & Writing PhD Program

richgeb@bgnet.bgsu.edu

http://myprofile.cos.com/gebhardt1

Areas of specialization: Teaching writing, the nature and evaluation
of scholarship in composition studies, department administration, WAC.

Recent Publications: "Scholarship of Teaching and Administration: An Elusive Goal for English Studies," Teaching, Scholarship, and Service in the Twenty-First Century English Department (2004). "Reviewing and Refocusing Doctoral Education In Composition Studies" JAC (2002). "Argument As Common Ground for Literature and Composition" CEA Forum (2002). "Toward Understanding and Cooperation Among Teachers of Writing Teachers," Foreword to Teaching Writing Teachers of High School English and First-Year Composition (2002). "Administration as Focus for Understanding the Teaching of Writing," The Allyn & Bacon Sourcebook for Writing Program Administrators (2002). Afterword to the reprint of "Balancing Theory with Practice in the Training of Writing Teachers," On Writing Research: The Braddock Essays, 1975-1998 (1999). Academic Advancement in Composition Studies: Scholarship, Publication, Promotion, Tenure, edited with Barbara Genelle Smith Gebhardt (1997). "Motives and Strategies for Writing Articles in Composition Studies," Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition (1997). "Refereed Publication in Composition Studies and CCC," Rhetoric Review (1995). "Expanding the Criteria for Evaluating Scholarship," The Politics and Processes of Scholarship (1995). "Scholarship, Promotion, and Tenure in Composition Studies,"Rhetoric, Cultural Studies and Literacy (1995).

Classes Taught: English 729: Scholarly Publishing; English 620:
Teaching of Writing; English 484: Teaching Writing; English 150:
Response to Literature; and English 780--on the topics of "Writing
Administration," "Connections in English Studies," "Writing & Teaching in the Disciplines," and "Writing Across the University."

Professional Leadership and Awards: Editor of College Composition and Communication from 1987-1993; former Director of the NCTE Commission on Composition; member of the Commission on Writing-Teacher Education at the NCTE Conference on English Education since 2004. John Gerber 20th Century Leadership
Award (2000) recognizing "major contributions to CCCC and its
objectives" through teaching and mentoring of researchers, teachers,
and administrators, and "exemplary leadership during the first fifty
years" of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Richard Braddock Award (1978) for the outstanding article on rhetoric and composition in any 1977 publication of the National Council of Teachers of English.

Donna Nelson-Beene, PhD (BGSU) -- Director, General Studies Writing Program

dnelson@bgnet.bgsu.edu

Areas of Specialization: Writing program administration, writing pedagogies, the teaching of basic and developmental writing, writing assessment.

Publications: The Teaching of Writing, co-authored with Alice Calderonello and Sue Carter (under contract with Allyn & Bacon); Perspectives on Academic Writing, co-authored with Calderonello and Carter (1997); "A Chat with Andrea Lunsford and Lisa Ede," co-authored with Calderonello and Carter in Writing on the Edge (1991); "Writing Laboratories and Basic Writing" in Research and Basic Writing, Moran and Jacobi, eds. (1990).

Classes Taught: English 602: Composition Instructors' Workshop; English 620: The Teaching of Writing; English 780: Teaching of Basic and Developmental Writing.

Alice Calderonello, PhD (University of Illinois) -- Emeritus Professor

acalder@bgnet.bgsu.edu

Areas of Specialization: Style (especially clarity); women, writing and language; applied linguistics (especially to the teaching of writing); integrating writing, mathematics, and technology across the curriculum

Publications: three freshman writing texts (two introductory composition, one developmental writing) ;one monograph on feminism and composition (with Kris Blair); two research grants (Exxon foundation and the National Institute on Education); book reviews, interviews, articles, and conference presentations.

Current Work in Progress: 1) The Teaching of Writing (with Carter and Nelson-Beene), under contract with Allyn and Bacon; 2) Grammar for Language Arts Teachers (with Martin and Blair), under contract with Allyn and Bacon.

Mary Ann Sweeney, Graduate Secretary

masween@bgnet.bgsu.edu