Kris Blair - Bruce Edwards - Richard Gebhardt
Lance Massey - Lee Nickoson-Massey - Sue Carter Wood
Donna Nelson-Beene - Alice Calderanello

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

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

Areas of Specialization: Gender and Technology, Technological Literacy and Faculty Development, Online Teaching and Learning, Digital Portfolios, Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum, Community Literacy

Recent Publications: Webbing Cyberfeminist Practice: Communities, Pedagogies, and Social Action, co-edited, in production, Hampton Press. Recent articles in Community Literacy Journal (2007), Computers and Composition: An International Journal (2006), Journal of Educational Technology (2005), and chapters in Digital Writing Research (2007), Labor, Technologies and the Shaping of Composition in the Academy (2007) and Teaching Writing with Computers (2003, winner of the Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award). Other publications include Grammar for Language Arts Teachers , co-authored, Longman, 2003; Cultural Attractions/Cultural Distractions: Critical Literacy in Contemporary Contexts, co-authored, Prentice Hall, 2000; Feminist Cyberscapes: Mapping Gendered Academic Spaces, co-edited, Ablex, 1999 (chapter by Joanne Addison and Susan Hilligoss awarded Ellen Nold prize for best article of the year, 2000); and Composition: Discipline Analysis , co-authored monograph, National Center for Curriculum Transformation for Women, Towson UP, 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 , Women and Language.

Courses Recently 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.

Editor of Computers and Composition Online since 2002, Dr. Blair was recognized as BGSU’s Outstanding Contributor to Graduate Education in 2004 and received the CCCCs/7Cs Technology Innovator Award in 2007.
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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.

Recent 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.

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
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Richard Gebhardt, Ph.D. (Michigan State University)
Director of the Rhetoric & Writing Program

richgeb@bgnet.bgsu.edu
http://myprofile.cos.com/gebhardt1

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

Some Recent Publications: “The Importance of Untenured Writing Administrators to Composition and to English Studies,” in Untenured Faculty as Writing Program Administrators: Institutional Practices and Politics (2007). “Richard L. Larson: In Memoriam,” College Composition and Communication (2006). "Scholarship of Teaching and Administration: An Elusive Goal for English Studies," in 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," in 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: ENG 729: Scholarly Publishing; ENG 620: Teaching of Writing; ENG 484: Teaching Writing; ENG 150: Response to Literature; and ENG 780 “Special Topics”--on the topics of "Writing Administration," “Advanced Writing Pedagogy,” "Writing Across the University," "Connections in ENG Studies," and "Writing and Teaching in the Disciplines.”

Professional Leadership and Awards: Editor of College Composition and Communication from 1987-1993. Former Director of the NCTE Commission on Composition. 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.

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Lance Massey, Ph.D. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

lmassey@bgnet.bgsu.edu

Lance Massey (with co-editor Rick Gebhardt) recently signed an advance contract with Utah State University press for the essay collection titled Revisiting The Making of Knowledge in Composition: Perspectives on an Evolving Field. The collection asks contributors to critically reassess Stephen North’s important and controversial book, The Making of Knowledge in Composition, as a way to comment on the present and future of the discipline more than two decades after the original book was published. Massey also gave a presentation, with Lee Nickoson-Massey, at the 2007 CCCC in New York.  The presentation, titled “On the Limits of Practicing What We Teach: Performing Identity in the Dear Birthmothher Letter,” explores the ethics of identity and representation in the “Dear Birthmother Letter” genre, in which hopeful adoptive parents are obligated, seemingly paradoxically, to craft a highly stylized and in many ways formalized persuasive document while at the same time offering a vision of their authentic selves to women considering adoption. Finally, Massey has had his proposal for the 2008 CCCC in New Orleans accepted and will be giving a presentation titled “The Changing Realities of the Politics of the Personal:From Macrosocial Identity Politics to the Mesosocial Politics of Disciplinary Ethos.” The presentation draws on recent developments in embodied and affective rhetorics to expand the definition of “personal writing” to include even writing that many might consider “dry,” “objective,” or “academic.” Authors can, and usually do, have deeply personal, affective ties to such modes of writing, such that they may be said to be expressive in a fundamental sense.

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.

Classes Taught: ENG 381: Grammar and Writing; ENG 680: Introduction to Rhetoric and Composition.
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Lee Nickoson-Massey, Ph.D. (Illinois State University)

leenick@bgnet.bgsu.edu

Recent Publications: "Writing Assessment as Pedagogy" (in progress). 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. "Rethinking Approaches to Writing Assessment." Practice in Context: Situating the Work of Writing Teachers. Ed. Peggy O'Neill and Cindy Moore. NCTE, 2003.

Research Interests: composition pedagogy, writing assessment, community-based literacies, feminism and composition

Classes Taught: ENG 484: Foundations of Teaching Writing; ENG 780: Writing Assessment
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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.

Recent 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 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.
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Donna Nelson-Beene, Ph.D. (Bowling Green State University)
Director of the 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
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Alice Calderanello, Ph.D. (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.