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Department of Writing Studies
612-624-3445
writ@umn.edu
612-624-3445
writ@umn.edu
Tenured and Tenure Track Faculty
| Name & Position | Teaching & Research Interests | Key Publication | Contact Information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carol Berkenkotter Professor |
Genre theory; rhetoric of science; discourse in the professions; sociocultural contexts of writing; qualitative research methodology | Genre Knowledge in Disciplinary Communication: Cognition/culture/power (Lawrence Erlbaum) | 200C Wesbrook Hall 612-624-3721 cberken@umn.edu |
| Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies |
Technical communication programs; theory of composition and technical communication instruction; computer pedagogy; visual rhetoric; writing-across-the-curriculum; writing center theory; World Wide Web educational support and development | Virtual Peer Review: Teaching and Learning About Writing in Online Environments (SUNY Press) | 150E Wesbrook Hall 612-624-6727 lkbreuch@umn.edu |
| Patrick Bruch Associate Professor |
Theory and history of composition studies, critical literacy and critical pedagogy, and cultural studies | The Hope and the Legacy: The Past, Present, and Future of "Students' Right to Their Own Language" (Hampton Press) | 200D Wesbrook Hall 612-625-6041 patbruch@umn.edu |
| Ann Duin Professor, Associate VP and Deputy CIO ADCS |
Collaboration, distance education, and partnerships; working with organizations to provide citizens with better access to post-secondary instruction and other services made available by partnering institutions and businesses | Partnering in the Learning Marketspace, Volume 4, Educause Leadership Strategies (Jossey-Bass) | 190 Shepherd Labs 612-625-9259 ahduin@umn.edu |
| Richard Graff Associate Professor |
Classical Rhetoric; contemporary rhetorical theory; stylistics & rhetorical criticism | The Viability Of The Rhetorical Tradition (SUNY Press) | 202E Wesbrook Hall 612-624-4985 graff013@umn.edu |
| Laura Gurak Professor, Chair |
Rhetorics of science and technology; rhetorical criticism; Internet studies; online research methods; social aspects of computing; the law and technology (intellectual property and privacy); electronic literacies; technical and professional communication | Cyberliteracy: Navigating the Internet with Awareness (Yale University Press) | 180B Wesbrook Hall 612-624-1784 gurakl@umn.edu |
| John Logie Associate Professor |
Rhetorical theory; rhetoric of electronic writing spaces; sophistic rhetorics; constructions of authorship; intellectual property; visual rhetorics; computer-mediated communication; collaborative writing | Peers, Pirates, and Persuasion: Rhetoric in the Peer-to-Peer Debates (Parlor) | 202C Wesbrook Hall 612-624-4709 logie@umn.edu |
| Bernadette Longo Associate Professor |
Cultural histories of technical communication; computer technologies in popular culture; technical writing textbooks as cultural artifacts; the idea of community; computer-assisted pedagogy; technical and professional communication | Spurious Coin: A History of Science, Management, and Technical Writing (SUNY Press) | 102 Folwell Hall 612-624-9781 blongo@umn.edu |
| Earl McDowell Professor, Director of Graduate Studies (M.S.) |
Technical communication apprehension; technical communication programs; employment cycle interviewing; conflict; gender and psychological sex; international aspects of technical communication; comparison of U.S. and Japanese students on different communication variables | Interviewing Practices for Technical Writers (Baywood) | 202D Wesbrook Hall 137 ClaOff Bldg 612-624-3657 mcdow001@umn.edu |
| Thomas Reynolds Associate Professor, Director of First-Year Writing |
Composition studies, including literacy history, popular rhetorics, technologies for writing instruction, and writing across the curriculum | "Selling College Literacy to The Boy: The Mass-Market Magazineas Early 20th Century Literacy Sponsor." American Periodicals. 15.2 (2005): 163-177 | 150D Wesbrook Hall 612-626-0065 reyno004@umn.edu |
| Donald Ross Professor, Director of Graduate Studies (M.A. & Ph.D.) |
Literature: the American "Renaissance" and movements which preceded and followed it; theory of the novel; travel writing. Composition: the role of computers and word processors in writing instruction; writing in academic disciplines | American History and Culture from the Explorers to Cable TV (Peter Lang) | 202F Wesbrook Hall 612-625-5585 rossj001@umn.edu |
| Mary Schuster Professor |
Gender and communication; reproductive technologies; feminist theory and rhetoric of science and technology; rhetorical analysis of public hearings on midwifery in Minnesota | Body Talk: Rhetoric, Technology, Reproduction (University of Wisconsin Press) | 150B Wesbrook Hall 612-624-2262 mmlay@umn.edu |
| Billie Wahlstrom Professor, Vice Provost |
Design of distance learning materials; media selection; effects of new and emerging technologies; gender, ethics, and technology interactions | Technical Communication (McGraw-Hill) | 236 Morrill Hall 612-626-1027 bwahlstr@umn.edu |
Affiliate Faculty
| Name & Position | Teaching & Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Lisa Albrecht Associate Professor, AM School of Social Work |
Feminist, multicultural and social justice education; feminist alliance politics; antiracist and cross-class organizing |
| Robert L. Brown, Jr. Associate Professor, ASM Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature |
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, cultural ethnography |
| Karlyn K. Campbell Professor, ASM Communication Studies |
Rhetorical criticism, rhetorical theory, political communication, women's communication, and social movement rhetoric |
| Shirley N. Garner Professor, ASM English |
Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, feminist studies in literature, feminist psychoanalytic literary theory and criticism, autobiography |
| Ronald W. Greene Associate Professor, ASM Communication Studies |
Political communication, debates, civic education; legal and popular perspectives on free speech; film exhibition, educational uses of film/movies; history of debates on population control |
| Alan G. Gross Professor, SM Communication Studies |
Scientific communication, rhetorical theory, and visual communication |
| Joseph A. Konstan Professor, ASM Computer Science and Engineering |
Human-computer interaction, recommender systems, online community, and computer systems for HIV prevention |
| Cynthia Lewis Professor, ASM Curriculum and Instruction |
Critical Literacy and Digital media in urban high schools, classroom discourse, adolescent literacy and identity, critical discourse analysis, classroom ethnography |
| Daniel J. Philippon Associate Professor, SM English |
Environmental literature, history, and ethics; ideas of nature, culture, and place; human dimensions of conservation biology |
| Edward A. Schiappa Professor, ASM Communication Studies |
Argumentation, classical rhetoric, media influence, and contemporary rhetorical theory |
| Geoffrey Sirc Professor, ASM English, Language/Literature |
History, practice & theory of writing instruction; new media; hip hop; popular culture |
| Elaine E. Tarone Professor, ASM ILES |
Applied linguistics, bilingualism, immigrant English language acquisition, international student language acquisition, impact of alphabetic literacy on oral processing in second, language acquisition, learner language analysis by language teachers |
| Arthur E. Walzer Professor, SM Communication Studies |
History of rhetoric, rhetoric and ethics, moral philosophy, civic rhetoric, classical rhetoric, Renaissance rhetoric, eighteenth-century rhetoric |
| Kirt H. Wilson Associate Professor, ASM Communication Studies |
Afro-American discourse and civil rights, presidential rhetoric, 1875 Civil Right Act, rhetorical theory and criticism, textual analysis and criticism, United States public address criticism, late nineteenth-century political rhetoric, W. E. B. Du Bois, social movement theory and criticism, reconstruction, abolitionism, civil rights movement |
RSTC Senior Members (SM) or Senior Affiliate Members (ASM) may chair M.A. and Ph.D. degree committees
