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Bruce Ballenger

Bruce Ballenger

Boise State University

Bruce Ballenger, a professor of English at Boise State University, teaches courses in composition, composition theory, the essay tradition, and creative nonfiction. He is the author of seven books, including the three texts in the Curious series: The Curious Researcher 6/e, The Curious Reader 2/e, and The Curious Writer 3/e, all from Longman/Pearson Publishers. He lives with his wife and two children in Boise, Idaho. Explore Bruce's recently published texts.

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Barclay Barrios

Barclay Barrios

Florida Atlantic University

Barclay Barrios came to FAU from Rutgers University, where he completed his degree while serving as an Assistant Director in the writing program. Currently, he serves as the Director of Writing Programs for FAU, and has just completed a new freshman composition reader, Emerging, A Reader, published by Bedford/St. Martin's. His work focuses on writing program administration, institutional power and change, digital media, pedagogy, and computers and composition. His work has been published in Computers and Composition, MeatJournal, and Computers and Composition Online

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David Damrosch

David Damrosch

Harvard University

David Damrosch is a Professor of Literature and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He is a past president of the American Comparative Literature Association and has written widely on world literature from antiquity to the present. His books include The Narrative Covenant: Transformations of Genre in the Growth of Biblical Literature (1987), We Scholars: Changing the Culture of the University (1995), What Is World Literature? (2003), The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (2007), and How to Read World Literature (2008). He is the founding general editor of the six-volume Longman Anthology of World Literature (2009) and the editor of Teaching World Literature (2009) and co-editor of The Text and the World: A Comparative Literature Sourcebook (2009). Current research projects include a cultural history of the conquest of Mexico and its colonial aftermath, and a book on the role of global scripts in the formation of national literatures. Explore David's recently published texts.

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Dana Gioia

Dana Gioia

Poet, Former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts

Dana Gioia, poet, served two terms as the ninth Chair of the NEA and was responsible for "The Big Read", the largest literary program in the history of the federal government. Gioia is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning poet who has published three full-length collections of poetry. His poetry collection, Interrogations at Noon, won the 2002 American Book Award. An influential critic as well, Gioia's 1991 volume Can Poetry Matter? which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award, is credited with helping to revive the role of poetry in American public culture. Gioia's many literary anthologies include Twentieth Century American Poetry, 100 Great Poets of the English Language, The Longman Anthology of Short Fiction, and Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama and Writing. His poems, translations, essays, and reviews have appeared in many magazines including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Washington Post Book World, The New York Times Book Review, State, and The Hudson Review. He has written two opera libretti and is an active translator of poetry from Latin, Italian, and German. As Chairman of the NEA, Gioia succeeded in garnering enthusiastic bi-partisan support in the U.S. Congress for the mission of the Arts Endowment, as well as in strengthening the national consensus in favor of public funding for the arts and arts education. Business Week Magazine referred to him as "The Man Who Saved the NEA." Explore Dana's recently published texts.

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Muriel Harris

Muriel Harris

Purdue University

Muriel Harris is professor emerita of English, Writing Lab Founder and Director (retired), founder and current editor of the Writing Lab Newsletter (http://writinglabnewsletter.org/), member of NCTE, and founder of Purdue's award-winning Online Writing Lab (OWL). She has authored several books, including The Prentice Hall Reference Guide (now being revised for the Eighth Edition) and The Writer's FAQs (soon to appear in the Fourth Edition), both published by Pearson. When she and several graduate students started the Writing Lab at Purdue University, their goal was to create a friendly and collaborative environment where students could talk comfortably about their writing in an informal, one-to-one setting. Harris grew up in Chicago, IL and then went to the University of Illinois, in Champaign-Urbana, IL and then to Columbia University for her doctoral work. She and her husband, Samuel Harris, now live in West Lafayette, IN, where they are retired and from which they travel to Evanston, IL to visit their daughter, her husband, and their magnificent children, and to Washington, D.C. to visit their son and his wife. Harris is an enthusiastic supporter of writing centers as a highly effective environment for students to work on their writing. Her awards, books, book chapters, articles, workshops, and conference presentations can be found on the CV linked to her page on the Writing Lab Newsletter website (http://writinglabnewsletter.org/contact.php). Explore Muriel's recently published texts.

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Deborah Holdstein

Deborah Holdstein

Columbia College Chicago

Deborah H. Holdstein, PhD, is Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of English at Columbia College Chicago. Dr. Holdstein has published widely in such areas as film, literary studies, and rhetoric and composition. Until December, 2009, she was editor of the premier journal in rhetoric and composition, College Composition and Communication as well as an Officer of the international organization, the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Before her arrival at Columbia, Holdstein served as a member of the graduate faculty at Northern Illinois University, where she was Chair of the PhD-granting Department of English. For twenty years, Holdstein taught and advised graduate and undergraduate students at Governors State University, where she also led the program in English, chaired the Graduate Council, and served as Faculty Associate for Graduate Studies and Research in the Office of the Provost. From 1997-2000, she also led GSU's university-wide North Central Association re-accreditation effort. Dr. Holdstein's books include On Composition and Computers; Rhetorical Choices (with Charles Schuster and Keith Gilyard); The Prentice-Hall Anthology of Women Writers ; Personal Effects (with David Bleich); and her most recent volume, Judaic Perspectives in Rhetoric and Composition (edited with Andrea Greenbaum). Deborah Holdstein also serves as a consultant to colleges and universities (and directs the Consultant-Evaluator Program of the Council of Writing Program Administrators). She is also a regular speaker at major scholarly conferences. Holdstein received the B.A. from Northwestern University (English and French) and the A.M. and PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Comparative Literature).

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Christine Hult

Christine Hult

Utah State University

Christine Hult is Associate Dean at Utah State University. She received her PhD in 1982 from the University of Michigan. Christine has written several successful writing textbooks, including: The New Century Handbook, 5d and The New Century Pocket Guide for Writers, 3e (with Thomas Huckin), and Researching and Writing Across the Curriculum, 3e. Her research interests include computers in the writing classroom, writing in the disciplines, program and teacher assessment, and women in academia. She is past editor of the Council of Writing Program Administrator's journal, WPA: Writing Program Administration and is active in numerous professional organizations, speaking at conferences, chairing panels and programs, and leading workshops, including the National Council of Teachers of English, the Conference on Computers and Writing (Conference Chair 1996), the Council of Writing Program Administrators (Conference Chair 1987), the Alliance for Computers in English Studies, and the Conference on College Composition and Communication.Explore Christine's recently published texts.

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Melissa Ianetta

Melissa Ianetta

University of Delaware

Melissa Ianetta received her B.A. and M.A. from Bridgewater State College and her Ph.D. from Ohio State University. She teaches courses in rhetoric and writing. Her research on the history of rhetoric and writing program administration has appeared in PMLA, College English, Composition Studies, The Writing Center Journal, WPA: Writing Program Administrator, Rhetoric Review and elsMelissa Ianetta is Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing at the University of Delaware, a flagship research university with 20,000 students. At UD, Melissa leads the composition program, the writing center and the writing-across-the-curriculum initiative. With Lauren Fitzgerald of Yeshiva University, she edits The Writing Center Journal and she is an executive board member of the International Writing Center Association Conference and the Council of Writing Program Administrators. Her research is published or forthcoming in College English, PMLA, College Composition and Communication, Rhetoric Review, Composition Studies, and WPA.ewhere. With Lauren Fitzgerald (Yeshiva University), she edits The Writing Center Journal. Professor Ianetta currently serves as UD's Director of Writing.

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Maria Jerskey

LaGuardia Community College

Maria Jerskey (Ph.D., English Education, New York University) teaches writing and linguistics to undergraduates at LaGuardia Community College and academic writing to doctoral students at CUNY's Graduate Center. Prior to her current role as Assistant Professor at LaGuardia, Maria served as Director of the Baruch College Writing Center for five years. While directing the Writing Center, she completed her doctoral research on writing handbooks, English language learners, and the selective tradition. Maria holds an undergraduate degree in English and a Master of Arts in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from Hunter College. In addition to co-authored handbooks with Ann Raimes, Maria's recent publications include chapters in The SAGE Handbook of Writing Development (2009), Meeting the Learning Needs of Advanced Multilingual Writers (with Suresh Canagarajah), and Transformative Spaces: Designing Creative Sites for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (2010). She presents internationally at conferences and holds membership in several academic associations.

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Richard Johnson-Sheehan

Richard Johnson-Sheehan

Purdue University

Richard Johnson-Sheehan is a Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at Purdue University. At Purdue, he has directed the Introductory Composition program, and he has mentored new teachers of composition for many years. He teaches a variety of courses in composition and professional writing as well as in classical rhetoric and the rhetoric of science. He has published widely in these areas. His prior books on writing include Technical Communication Today, now in its third edition, and Writing Proposals, now in its second edition. Professor Johnson-Sheehan was awarded 2008 Fellow of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing and has been an officer in the Council for Writing Program Administrators.Explore Rick's recently published texts.

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Martha Kolln

Martha Kolln

Pennsylvania State University

Martha Kolln, who is now retired, taught grammar and rhetoric at Penn State for 25 years. In 1980 she wrote "Understanding English Grammar, a text that combines the sentences patterns of "new" grammar--what she calls "linguistic grammar"--with the sentence diagrams of traditional grammar. In 1990 she began working on "rhetorical" grammar--a way of putting grammar into the writing classroom--to help writers understand the power and possibilities of their grammar tools. Martha and her husband grew up in Oregon, where they will be traveling this summer for the 60th reunion of their graduating class at Silverton High School. Explore Martha's recently published texts.

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Charles Paine

Charles Paine

University of New Mexico

Charles Paine is an Associate Professor of English at the University of New Mexico, where he teaches undergraduate courses in first-year, intermediate, and professional writing as well as graduate courses in writing pedagogy, the history of rhetoric and composition, and other areas. At UNM, he has directed the Rhetoric and Writing Program and the First-Year Writing Program. He is an active member of the Council of Writing Program Administrators and currently serves on its Executive Board. He co-founded and coordinates the Consortium for the Study of Writing in College, a joint effort of the National Survey of Student Engagement and the Council of Writing Program Administrators. The Consortium conducts general research into the ways that undergraduate writing can lead to enhanced learning, engagement, and other gains related to student success.Explore Chuck's recently published texts.

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Shelley Reid

Shelley Reid

George Mason University

Shelley Reid is Associate Professor and Director of Composition at George Mason University, where she joined the faculty of in 2004. She previously taught at Oklahoma State University, Austin College (in Sherman, Texas) and the University of Wyoming. She earned her PhD in American literature in 1994 from SUNY Buffalo, focusing on contemporary women novelists. Her recent work in composition studies addresses the issues of teacher preparation, program administration, and curriculum development. At George Mason, Shelley directs the composition program, which serves about 7000 students each year; she also serves on the Writing Across the Curriculum Committee and the Coordinating Committee for the Center for Teaching Excellence.

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