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Core Faculty

Brian R. Henderson
Ph.D. University of South Carolina
Assistant Professor
Teaching of Writing Graduate Advisor (last names A-L)

Specializations: Composition Pedagogy, Rhetorical Theory, Ecocomposition, and Institutional Labor


Matthew S. S. Johnson
Ph.D. Indiana University
Associate Professor
Director of Expository Writing

Specializations: Composition Pedagogy & Theory; Contemporary Rhetorical Theory; Digital/Electronic Literacies and Technologies; Ludology and Digital Games


Sharon James McGee
Ph.D. Purdue University
Associate Professor
Chair, Department of English Language and Literature
Teaching of Writing Graduate Advisor (last names M-Z)

Specializations: Response and Assessment of Writing, Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods; Pedagogy; Feminist Theory and Research; Technical and Professional Writing; Second Language Writing


Anushiya Ramaswamy
Ph.D. University of Nevada, Reno
Professor

Specializations: Composition Theory; History of Rhetoric; Literary Theory; African-American Rhetoric; Post-colonial Literature


 

Associated Faculty

(Faculty members who on occasion teach courses in the Teaching of Writing program.)

Allison Funk
M.F.A. Columbia University
Professor

Specializations: Teaching Creative Writing; Creative Writing (Poetry); Contemporary American Poetry; Modern British and American Literature


John Pendergast
Ph.D. University of Missouri
Associate Professor

Specializations: History of Rhetoric and Literacy; Renaissance Literature (esp. William Shakespeare and Edmund Spenser); Classical Literature in Translation; The Bible and/as Literature; Modern and Contemporary Poetic Theory; The Epic


Nancy Ruff
Ph.D. Princeton University
Professor

Specializations: Computers; the Internet; Composition Pedagogy; Medieval Literature (esp. Chaucer); Renaissance Literature; Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature; Classical Influences; Greek; Latin; Women's Studies


Geoffrey Schmidt
M.F.A. University of Alabama
Associate Professor

Specializations: Teaching Creative Writing; Creative Writing (Fiction); American Literature; Contemporary American Fiction and Poetry; Popular Literature; Literary Editing


Jeffrey Skoblow
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University
Professor

Specializations: Composition Pedagogy, Politics and Pedagogy, 19th & 20th Century British Literature, Drama, Creative Writing


Carl Springer
Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Professor

Specializations: Classical Mythology, Greek and Latin Language and Literature, Ancient Rhetoric, the Trivium, Aesop's fables, Neo-Latin, the Biblical Epic


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