EDUCATION

B.A., Earlham College
M.A. University of Chicago
Ph.D., University of New Hampshire

ACADEMIC PROFILE

Specializes in composition theory and creative nonfiction. Interests include history and theory of essay; ways of reading and responding to student writing; and memoir and autobiography.

COURSES

EN010 - First Writing Seminar

EN412 - Writing Workshop:Creative Nonfiction

EN825 - Composition Theory and the Teaching of Writing

PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)

• Reading Student Writing: Confessions, Meditations, and Rants (Heinemann 2004).
• Writing Relationships: What Really Happens in the Composition Class (1993).
• Co-Editor, Taking Stock: Reassessing the Writing Process Movement in the 90s (1994).
• "You Virtually Can't Get There From Here," The Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction 4 (2002): 14-25.
• "You Are Invited . . . To Leave," The Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction 1 (1999): 44-51.