Department of English

Composition: Literacy, Pedagogy, and Rhetoric
Doctoral Student Locations, Dissertations, and Committees by Year of Completion

2008

Tara Lockhart                   

Assistant Professor, English, San Francisco State University
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“Revising the Essay:  Intellectual Arenas and Hybrid Forms”

Chair: David Bartholomae
Readers: Don Bialostosky, Mariolina Salvatori, and Nancy Glazener

 Margaret Stahr                

Assistant Professor, English, and Director of the Writing Center, Catawba College
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"'As If Through Another's Eyes': A Study of Peer Tutoring and First-Year Students' REvision Behaviors"
Chair: Stephen L. Carr
Readers: Jean Ferguson Carr, James Seitz, and Amanda
Godley.

2007

Malkiel Choseed                

Assistant Professor, English/Reading/Communication, Onondaga Community College
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Representations of Teaching, Curriculum Reform, and the Formation of Collegiate English”
Chair:   Jean Ferguson Carr
Readers: Paul Kameen, John Twyning, and Dennis Looney

Ellen Gerber Carillo        

Assistant Professor / Writing Coordinator, Waterbury Campus, University of Connecticut
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“Modernist Pedagogies: Conrad, Wolf, Pound, and the Reading Public”
Co-Chairs:  James Seitz and Troy Boone
Readers:  Colin MacCabe and Phil Watts

Brenda M. Glascott          

Assistant Professor, California State – San Bernardino
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“The Ends of Literacy Education:  Evangelical Protestantism and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of Contemporary Writing Instruction”
Chair:  Kathryn Flannery
Readers:  Nancy Glazener, Stephen L. Carr, and Donna Strickland

Kirstin M. Hanley             

Assistant Professor, English, SUNY Fredonia
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“Redefining Didactic Convention: Mary Wollstonecraft and Feminist Discourses of Appropriation”
Chair:  Stephen L. Carr
Readers:  Don Bialostosky, Jean Ferguson Carr, and Amanda Godley

2006

Christopher Warnick       

Assistant Professor, English, College of Charleston, South Carolina
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“Student Writing, Politics, and Style, 1962-1979”
Chair:  Jean Ferguson Carr
Readers:  James Seitz, David Bartholomae, and Lester Olson

2005

Richard E. Parent                             

Assistant Professor of English, University of Vermont
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“The Digital Affect: A Rhetorical Hermeneutic for Reading, Writing, and Understanding Narrative in Contemporary Literature and New Media”
Chair: Mariolina Salvatori
Readers:  Philip Smith, James Seitz, and Stuart Moulthrop

2002

Patricia Sullivan

Assistant Professor, English, Northeastern University
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Avant-Garde Composition:  Pedagogies of Experimental Writing
Chair:  James Seitz
Readers:  Paul Kameen, Kathryn Flannery, and Jonathan Arac

2001

Christine Abbott                

Associate Professor, Director of Writer’s Center, LaRoche College
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Heresies, Dreams, and Emotions Reclaimed:  Feminist Refigurings of Composition’s Outposts”
Chair:  Jean Ferguson Carr
Readers:  James Seitz, Lorraine Higgins, and Noreen Garman

Anne A. Stafford                               

Lecturer, English, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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Looking at Voice in Composition Through the Lens of Drama from Rhetoric to Role  Play 20th Century Dramatic Pedagogies
Co-Chairs:  Joseph Harris and Philip Smith
Readers:  James Seitz and Stephen M. Koziol, Jr.

1999

John Nichols                       

Associate Professor, English, Christopher Newport University
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Instituting Interpretation:  Amateurs and Advice Texts
Co-Chairs:  Susan Harris Smith and Mariolina Salvatori
Readers:  David Bartholomae, Jean Ferguson Carr, and David Shumway

Cherise Pollard                 

Associate Professor, English, West Chester University
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“They Can Burn All the Papers but They Can’t Burn Conscious:An Exploration of the Problematics of Historical Experience In African-American Culture”
Chair:  Jean Ferguson Carr
Readers:  Kirk Savage, Brenda F. Berrian, Jonathan Arac, and Jim Knapp

Julia Sawyer                      

Early Childhood Consultant, Williamsport, PA
Telling Time:  Temporality and the Educational Enterprise
Chair:  David Bartholomae
Readers:  Jean Ferguson Carr, Jonathan Arac, and Tony Petrosky

1998

Gwendolen Gorzelsky      

Associate Professor, English, Wayne State University
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Echoes Half Heard:  Community Activists, Collective Moments
Chair:  David Bartholomae
Readers:  Stephen L. Carr, Jonathan Arac, Marianne Novy, and James Thompson

Lynn Casmier-Paz            

Associate Professor, English, University of Central Florida
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The Effects of Literacy in English Language Slave Narrative
Chair:  Jonathan Arac
Readers:  Ronald Judy, James Seitz, and Henry Krips

James Zukowski                

Associate Professor, English, Lake Superior State University
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Negotiating Reading and Writing through History:  The British Novel and Other Instructional Texts, 1740-1829
Chair:  Stephen L. Carr
Readers:  Mariolina Salvatori, James Seitz, and Janelle Greenburg

1997

Melanie Dawson                

Visiting Assistant Professor, English, College of William and Mary
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From Carnival to Nostalgia:  The Play of Cultural Literacy in the Nineteenth-Century Parlor
Chair:  Jean Ferguson Carr
Readers:  Joseph Harris, Susan Harris Smith, and Paula Kane

Bianca Falbo                      

Associate Professor, English, Lafayette College
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Authorship and the Circulation of Literate Practices in the Anglo-American Field of Cultural Production, 1790-1860
Chair:  Jean Ferguson Carr
Readers:  Joseph Harris, Stephen L. Carr, Nancy Glazener, and Patrizia Lombardo

1996

Jeff Galin                            

Associate Professor, English, Florida Atlantic University
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Sixty  Years of Multicultural Education Unmasked:  A Study of Discursive Strategies and Institutional Practices
Chair:  Paul Kameen
Readers:  Nicholas Coles, Michael Helfand, William Smith, and Glynda Hull

Stephen Sutherland       

Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston
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In-Citing Change:  The Pedagogical Politics of Revision and Citation
Chair:  David Bartholomae
Readers:  Philip Smith, Mariolina Salvatori, Joseph Harris, and
Susan Wall

Linda Jordan Platt          

Associate Professor, English, La Roche College
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Learning to Read in the Real Sense:  Stories of Reading and American Schooling”               
Chair:  Jean Ferguson Carr
Readers:  David Bartholomae, William L. Smith, and Isabel Beck

Paula Kristofik   

Associate Professor, English, Eastern Kentucky University
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The Signification of Chalk: Teacher/Students-in-the-Classroom, John Dewey and U.S. Progressive Education, and the Desire of  Pedagogy
Chair:  Mariolina Salvatori
Readers:   David Bartholomae, Stephen L. Carr, and Mark B. Ginsburg

1995

Barbara McCarthy          

Dean, Academic Affairs, Asnuntuck Community College
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Riding the Brake:  Disciplinary Change in Contemporary English Studies
Chair:  Paul Bové
Readers:  Lynn Emanuel, David Bartholomae, Mariolina Salvatori, and Iris Marion Young

Stephen Parks    

Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric, Syracuse University
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A History of  ‘The Students’ Rights to Their Own Language’ Resolution as Promulgated by the Conference on College Composition and Communication, 1974
Chair:  Jonathan Arac
Readers:  David Bartholomae, Joseph Harris, Nancy Glazener, and John Beverley

Matthew Willen                 

Associate Professor, English, Elizabethtown College
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Composing Mountaineering:  The Personal Narrative and the Production of Knowledge in the Alpine Club of London and the Appalachian Mountain Club, 1858-1900
Chair:  David Bartholomae
Readers:  Philip Smith, Margaret Marshall, Mariolina Salvatori, and Anthony Petrosky

1994

Barbara Schroeder          

Director, Corporate and Foundation Relations, Children's National Medical Center, Washinton, DC
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Educating Female Subjects in England, 1780-1850:  A Study of How the Literary and Cultural Representation of the Education of Women Illustrate the Ways in Which Education Both Subjugates and Empowers
Chair:  Stephen L. Carr
Readers:  Carol Kay, Marianne Novy, and Janelle Greenberg

Kathleen Welsch                               

Associate Professor, English, Clarion University
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19th-Century Composition:  Relationships Between Pedagogical Concerns and Cultural Values in American Colleges, 1859-1890
Chair:  David Bartholomae
Readers:  Jean Ferguson Carr, Joseph Harris, and Noreen Gorman

1993

Rita Capezzi   

Associate Dean, Student Advisement Center, Canisius College
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Materializing ‘Domesticity’:  Women and the Material and Discursive Practices of Culture in the United States, 1800-1916
Chair:  Stephen L. Carr
Readers:  Jonathan Arac, Jean Ferguson Carr, and Patrizia Lombardo

Donna Dunbar-Odom

Associate Professor, Literature & Languages, Texas A&M University-Commerce
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Speaking for others:  Failed Claims of Liberatory Pedagogy
Chair: David Bartholomae
Readers:  Jean Ferguson Carr, Philip Smith, Mariolina Salvatori, and Brenda Berrian

1992

Richard Miller

Professor, English, Rutgers University
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Representing The People:  The Problems and Promises of Popular Reading Practices
Chair:  David Bartholomae
Readers:  Joseph Harris, Jane Feuer, and Danae Clark


 
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