Richard Beach
Curriculum & Instruction
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Richard Beach’s
primary research interest is in understanding secondary
students’ responses to literature, particularly multicultural
literature. Beach is also interested in inquiry-based/critical
literacy approaches to teaching English, with a focus on
media literacy. The wiki designed to support the book Teaching Writing Using Blogs, Wikis, and other Digital Tools is at http://digitalwriting.pbwiki.com.
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David Beard
Writing Studies (UMD)
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David Beard is interested in interdisciplinary research in rhetoric and writing studies. He explores the contemporary and historical intersections between English, communication, philosophy and education in the common project of teaching and researching reading, writing, speaking, listening and visual literacy in the modern university. |
Carol Berkenkotter
Writing Studies
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Carol Berkenkotter's research interests include genre theory/analysis (discourse in the professions), rhetoric of science, rhetoric of psychiatry, discourse analysis, and in particular, the phenomena of multi-modality and hybrid discourses that incorporate print with electronic media. She is also interested in science communication to popular audiences/public understanding of science and teaches a graduate course on this topic in the Writing Studies department. |
Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch
Writing Studies
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Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch’s interests include technical communication programs; theory of composition and technical communication instruction; computer pedagogy; visual rhetoric; writing across the curriculum; writing center theory; and World Wide Web educational support and development. She has recently taught the graduate courses “Development of Principles in Technical Communication Pedagogy I” and “Computer Pedagogy.”
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 Robert Brown
Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature
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Robert Brown's areas of specialization include
cultural studies of science and technology, rhetoric, literacy and critical pedagogy, theory and sociology of knowledge and taste, popular culture, culture and the environment, education and institutions, and cultural ethnography. |
Patrick Bruch
Writing Studies
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Patrick Bruch’s areas
of interest include the theory and history of composition
studies, critical literacy and critical pedagogy, and cultural
studies.
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Karlyn Kohrs Campbell
Communication Studies
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Karlyn Kohrs Campbell conducts
research in rhetorical criticism, rhetorical theory, political
communication, women’s communication, and social movement
rhetoric. Campbell teaches graduate courses on rhetorical
theory, rhetorical criticism, feminist rhetoric, and political
communication.
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Andrew Cohen
English as a Second
Language
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Andrew Cohen's interests
include the intersection of learning styles, language learning
strategies, motivation on language tasks, as well as test-taking
strategies in performing language assessment measures. Specifically
with regard to writing, he has done research on the impact
of written feedback on writing, on reformulation of L2 writing
by native writers, and on direct vs. translated writing
in a second language.
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Pamela Flash
Center for Writing
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Pamela Flash's research interests include writing pedagogy (particularly at post-secondary levels), writing across the curriculum, writing in the disciplines, and the use of qualitative research methods (particularly collaborative action research and ethnographic research) to enable pedagogic change on individual, departmental, and institutional levels. She currently directs the Writing-Enriched Curriculum project, a grant-funded program facilitating instructional change within the University's academic units. |
Richard Graff
Writing Studies
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Richard Graff’s interests
include classical and modern rhetorical theory; stylistic
theory and methods of rhetorical criticism; & history
of rhetorical education. Graff’s graduate teaching
focuses on modern and contemporary rhetorical theory and
communication theory and practice including a course on
“Major Figures in the Rhetorical Tradition: Modern
Era.”
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Edward Griffin
English
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Edward Griffin's central
interests include American literature (especially colonial)
and American Studies, use of early American history &
literature by modern American writers, & American religion,
& teaching. Griffin's graduate classes have included
“American Literature, History and Culture: Case Studies,” “The American Jeremiad,” & “The First
American Novels.”
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Alan Gross
Communication Studies
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Alan Gross’s research interests include
rhetorical theory, rhetorical criticism, philosophy of science,
sociology of science, medical science, especially the rhetoric
of science and scientific controversy, the role of scientific
methods in the humanities, and the history of the scientific
article from the 17th century to present. |
Laura Gurak
Writing Studies
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Laura Gurak’s interests
include rhetorics of science and technology, rhetorical
criticism, internet studies, online research methods, social
aspects of computing, the law and technology (intellectual
property and privacy), and technical and professional communication.
She has recently taught the graduate course “Rhetoric,
Privacy, and Persuasion in Cyberspace.”
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Michael Hancher
English |
Michael Hancher’s
interests include the history of the book, book production
and illustrations, social conditions for literacy, and technology
and literacy. Hancher has taught the graduate course “The
History of Writing Technologies.”
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 Kirsten Jamsen
Center for Writing
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Kirsten Jamsen is a teacher-researcher-writing program administrator whose current interests include writing consultancy, writing across the curriculum, composition pedagogy, the role of technology in writing centers and classrooms, and the relationship between writing centers and institutional change. |
Amy Lee
Writing Studies, Postsecondary Teaching & Learning
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Amy Lee’s research
interests include composition theory, critical pedagogy,
and writing pedagogy. |
 Timothy Lensmire
Curriculum & Instruction
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Timothy Lensmire's current research and writing focus on race and education, and especially on how white people learn to be white in our white supremacist society. Grounded in critical white studies, his work contributes to the ongoing effort to figure out how best to work with white students (in K-12 schools and universities, in teacher education, in teacher development) on issues of race and social justice. |
Cynthia Lewis
Curriculum & Instruction
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Cynthia Lewis teaches graduate courses in Critical Discourse Analysis, Politics of Race and Literacy in K–12 Education, and Sociocultural Perspectives on Literacy. Her research focuses on critical literacy, classroom discourse about literature, digital/new literacies among adolescents, and English/language arts teacher education. Currently, she is working with teacher colleagues on ELA reform in urban schools. In all of her work, she is interested in the connection between literacy practices and social identities. |
John Logie
Writing Studies
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John Logie’s research
interests include rhetorical theory, rhetoric of electronic
writing spaces, sophistic rhetorics, constructions of authorship,
intellectual property, visual rhetorics, computer-mediated
communication, and collaborative writing. Logie has recently
taught the graduate course “Science Writing for Popular
Audiences.”
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Rosemarie Park
Work, Community, & Family Education
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Rosemarie Park’s
research and teaching interests include adult education;
educational needs of the workforce; assessment of basic
skills as they relate to hiring and promotion; and the development
of plain-language criteria for use in legal, technical,
and government settings.
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Thomas Reynolds
Writing Studies
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Tom Reynolds’s research
interests include various aspects of composition studies,
including literacy history, popular rhetorics, technologies
for writing instruction, and writing across the curriculum. |
Donald Ross
Writing Studies
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Donald Ross’s central
interests revolve around literature, including the American
“Renaissance” and movements which preceded and
followed it, the theory of the novel, and travel writing.
Ross is also interested in composition, including the role
of computers and word processors in writing instruction
and writing in academic disciplines. |
Edward Schiappa
Communication Studies
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Edward Schiappa conducts
research in argumentation, classical rhetoric, media influence,
and contemporary rhetorical theory. His current research
explores the scope and function of rhetorical studies, including
the relationship between rhetorical theory and critical
media studies. Schiappa teaches graduate courses on contemporary
rhetorical theory, critical communication studies, rhetorical
criticism, and popular culture criticism. |
Amy Sheldon
Communication Studies
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Amy Sheldon’s research
is in the area of naturally occurring talk, including studying
gender differences in preschoolers’ conversations
and investigation of how gesture is synchronized with speech.
Sheldon teaches graduate courses on discourse analysis;
communication and gender; and language, culture, and identity. |
Geoffrey Sirc
English
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Geoffrey Sirc’s research
interests revolve around composition studies and writing
pedagogy. |
Thom Swiss
Curriculum & Instruction
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Thom Swiss's background is in creative writing, but these days his writing and teaching focus on interdisciplinary subjects, including popular culture as pedagogy, both in and out of the classroom. Drawing on research practices in cultural and media studies, he's interested in the contexts in which popular culture takes place and how the emergence of new media is changing the face of teaching and learning. |
Elaine Tarone
English as a Second Language
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Elaine Tarone’s research
interests include variation in interlanguage (learner language)
related to social contextual factors; the role of learner
creativity and language play in SLA; language teacher education;
communication strategy use; needs assessment in English
for specific purposes; interlanguage phonology, and sociolinguistics. |
Diane Tedick
Curriculum & Instruction
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Diane Tedick’s research
interests include the education of language minority students,
bilingual pedagogy, content-based language instruction and
technology, immersion schools, collaborative action research,
and teacher development. |
Arthur Walzer
Communication Studies
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Arthur Walzer’s research
interests include rhetorical theory and criticism, 18th-century
rhetorical theory, George Campbell, Aristotle, rhetoric
in the modern era, and ethics and technical communication.
Walzer teaches the following graduate courses: “Science
and Rhetoric: Perspectives on Knowledge, Power, and Rhetoric
in the Eighteenth Century” and “Major Figures
in the Rhetorical Tradition: Classical Era.” |
Kirt Wilson
Communication Studies
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Kirt Wilson’s research
moves from African American to presidential rhetoric, as
well as from the history of rhetoric to the rhetoric of
history including theories and practices of imitation in
the rhetoric of 19th and 20th century African Americans.
Wilson teaches graduate courses on U.S. public address,
African American civil rights rhetoric, textual analysis
and criticism, and rhetoric, race, and culture. |
