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