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Dissertation Titles and Current Positions of Ph.D. in Composition Graduates
2024
- Ashley Barry (Composition), Flexibility and Accountability: Lessons on Accessibility from Pandemic Learning
Assistant Professor, Bentley University
2023
- Krista Jackman (Composition), Screen Time Reconsidered: Exploring Student Perceptions of the Multimodal Composing Process
Associate Director of First-Year Writing, University of New Hampshire
2022
- Christine O'Keefe (Composition), “I’ve Had a Bad War:” Writing at Work, Writing in War. American Library in Paris Workplace Writing in WW II
Coordinator of Professional Writing, University of New Hampshire
2021
- Kristin Raymond (Composition), The Intersection of Gender, Race, and Accent for Multilingual Students in College Classrooms
Lecturer, Bentley University - Scott Lasley (Composition), 'Why Are We Doing This': How Students Find Meaning in Research Writing Across Contexts
Lecturer, University of Wisconsin - Cory Chamberlain (Composition), An Improv-able Legacy: Shining The Composition Spotlight on Viola Spolin’s Improvisational Pedagogy
Lecturer, Kennesaw State University - Samantha Donnelly (Composition), Composition as Bodily Rhetoric: A Multimodal Understanding of Student-Athlete Literacy Practices
Instructor, The Founders Academy - Meaghan Dittrich (Composition), Toward a Rhetorical Strategy of Sass: Sheila Hibben as America’s Early 20th Century Culinary Influencer
Director of the Connors Writing Center and of University Writing Programs, University of New Hampshire - Allison Giannotti (Composition), Becoming Scientists: Undergraduate Students’ Literacy Activities in Laboratory Education
Lecturer, Brandeis University
2020
- Danielle Lavendier (Composition), Fat in the Academy: Reimagining the Experience of the Fat Academic
- Lauren Short (Composition), Full Disclosure: Scholars in Rhetoric and Composition Discuss Transparency in Religious-Based Research.
Lecturer in Professional Writing and Rhetoric and Assistant Director of the University Writing Center, Baylor University, Waco, TX
2019
- Matt Switliksi (Composition), Common Ground: Response to Student Writing Across Contexts
Professional Tutor, Merrimack College Writing Center, Merrimack, MA - Corey McCullough (Composition), Collecting a Discipline: A Pan-History of the National Archives of Composition and Rhetoric
Assistant Professor, Fort Lewis College
2018
- Adam Cogbill (Composition), Working Alliances: The Implications of Person-Centered Theory for Student-Teacher Relationships and Learning
Content Strategist at Executive Office of Technology Services and Security - Wendy VanDellon (Composition), Revisiting the Personal Essay: Examining the Neglected Sophistication and the Rhetorical Dexterity of Student Writing
Assistant Director at the University Tutorial Center, North Carolina State University
2017
- Bradfield Dittrich (Composition), Edward Channing's Writing Revolution: Composition Prehistory at Harvard, 1819-1851
Assistant Professor and Writing Program Coordinator, Southern New Hampshire University
2016
- Sarah Franco (Composition), Liberation Through Listening: Learning from Student Veterans in Composition Classrooms
Assistant Professor, New England Institute of Technology
2015
- Erin Wecker (Composition), Mind the Gap: Rhetorical Bridging and Academic Literacy Among Transitional Students
Assistant Professor and Director of Composition, University of Montana - Shauna Wight (Composition), "Upward Bound is College Bound": Pre-College Outreach Programs' Sponsorship of Academic Writing
Assistant Professor, Southeast Missouri State University - Patricia Wilde (Composition), By Her Available Means: The Sensational Rhetoric of Women's Civil War Memoirs
Assistant Professor, Washington State University
2014
- Patricia Portanova (Composition), The Rhetoric of Distraction: Exploring the Impact of Portable Media Technology on the Writing Process and Product of Student Writers
Assistant Professor, Northern Essex Community
2013
- Maja Wilson (Composition), Writing Assessment's "Debilatating Inheritance": Behaviorism's Dismissal of Experience
Chair of the Division of Secondary and Special Education and Assistant Professor of Secondary Education
2012
- Beth Kramer Simpson (Composition), Learning From Feedback: How Students Read, Interpret and Use Teacher Written Feedback in the Composition Classroom
Assistant Professor and Director of the Bachelor's of Science in Technical Communication, New Mexico Tech - Michael Peterson (Composition), Created in the Image of: Mormonism and the Rhetorical Production of Identity in Privately-Published Family Histories
Department Chair and Assistant Professor, Dixie State University - James Webber (Composition), Towards Public Professionalism: A Pentadic Intervention in Debate Between the Common Core Standards Initiative (CCSI) and the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
Assistant Professor, University of Nevada-Reno
2011
- Alexandria Peary (Composition), The Self-Help of Composition: Peter Elbow's Writing Without Teachers, Composition Studies, and the Extracurriculum
Professor of English, Salem State University and Poet Laureate of New Hampshire
2010
- Michael DePalma (Composition), Archiving the Sacred: Austin Phelps and the Adaptation of Nineteenth-Century Rhetorical Education at Andover Theological Seminar
Associate Professor and Coordinator of Professional Writing and Rhetoric, Baylor University - Mike Garcia (Composition), Politics and Ethics of Student Self-Assessment in the Composition Classroom
Writing Director, Luther College - Jeffrey Ringer (Composition), Who Do I Say I Am? Evangelical Identity and Academic Writing
Associate Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Steven Simpson (Composition), Learning Systems: An Ecological Perspective on Advanced Academic Literacy Practices of Multilingual Writers
Chair and Associate Professor of Communication, New Mexico Tech
2009
- Joleen Hanson (Composition), Knowing More Than They Can Tell: An Assessment of Genre Awareness Among Students in Writing Intensive Zoology and Civil Engineering Courses
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Stout - Meagan Rodgers (Composition), "Racism is a Misunderstanding": Rhetorically Listening to White Students' Performances of Race
Manager of Operations and Strategic Initiatives, Case Western Reserve University - Kuhio Walters (Composition), Arresting Beauty, Framing Evidence: An Inquiry into Photography and the Teaching of Writing
Assistant Professor, West Chester University
2008
- Alison Knoblauch (Composition), Teaching Toward Understanding: Feminist Rhetorical Theories and Pedagogies in the College Composition Classroom
Assistant Professor, Kansas State University
2007
- Michael Michaud (Composition), IT Managers, Construction Marketers, and Emergency Medical Technicians: Professional Adult Learners in Higher Education
Professor, Rhode Island College - Kate Tirabassi (Composition), Revisiting the "Current Traditional Era": Innovations in Writing Instruction at the University of New Hampshire, 1940-1949
Professor of English and Communications, Keene State College
2006
- Michelle Cox (Composition), When the Workplace is on Campus: Learning to Write for a University Speech Language Clinic, 2006
Director and Senior Lecturer of the English Language Support Office, Cornell University
2005
- Joyce Rain Anderson (Composition), Indians and Immigrants: Survivance Stories of Literacies, 2005
Professor of English, Bridgewater State University, Massachusetts
2004
- Amy Zenger (Composition), Writing American Subjects: Race, Composition, and the Daily Themes Assignment for English 12 at Harvard, 1886-86
Associate Professor of English, American University of Beirut
2003
- Megan Fulwiler (Composition), Reading the Personal: Toward a Theory and Practice of Self in Student Writing
Associate Professor, The College of Saint Rose, Albany
2001
- Gregory Bowe (Composition), Taking a Pedagogical Turn: What Happens When the Student/Teacher Conference Moves to the Center of the Basic Writing Course
Assistant Professor of English and Director of Writing, Florida International University - Timothy Dansdill (Composition), The Composition of Anonymity: Toward a Theory, History, and Pedagogy
Associate Professor of English, Quinnipiac College - Christopher Dean (Composition), Layering Literacies: Computers and Peer Response in the Twenty-first Century
Assistant Professor of English, Southern Connecticut State University - Mary Hallet (Composition), Grief (W)rites: Composing Loss in the Composition Classroom
Assistant Professor of English, Director of the Writing Program, Long Island University - Stephanie Paterson (Composition), Embodied Narratives: Ways of Reading Student Literacy Histories
Associate Professor of English, Composition Director, California State University at Stanislaus
2000
- Bronwyn T. Williams (Composition), Tuned In: Television and the Teaching of Writing
Professor of English and Director of University Writing Center, University of Louisville
1998
- Deborah Hodgkins (Composition), Constructive Texts: Theory, Practice and the “Self”
Associate Professor of English, University of Maine at Presque Isle - Dorothy Kasik (Composition), Issues of Engendered Entitlement: Who Owns the Classroom? Who Owns Knowledge?, Tumani University, Iringa Tanzania
- Carol Kountz (Composition), The Role of Shame in Writing: How Lived Experience Affects the Writing Process
(retired) Associate Professor, Department of Writing, Grand Valley State University
1997
- Stephen Barrett (Composition), This Gonna Hurt Like Hell: A Pentecostal Student Enters the Academy, Idaho State Library System
- Anne Malone (Composition), Unruly Acts: An Inquiry into the Art of Letter Writing
Director of Women's Studies and Associate Professor of English, Department of English & Communication, SUNY Potsdam (deceased) - Michelle Payne (Composition), Bodily Discourses: When Students Write about Sexual Abuse, Physicl Abuse, and Eating Disorders
Chair, Department of English, and former Director of the Writing Program, Boise State University - Lance Svehla (Composition), Composition as a Mode of Being: Politics, Ethics, and History in the Writing Classrooms of Postmodernity
Associate Professor of English, Director of Akron Writing Institute, University of Akron
1996
- Donald Jones (Composition), Beyond the Post-Modern Impasse of Contemporary Composition: The NonFoundational Alternative of Deweyan Pragmatism
Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Professional Writing, University of Hartford - Lisa M. Stepanski (Composition), “There is No School Like the Family School:” Literacy, Motherteaching, and the Alcott Family
Professor of English, Coordinator, First Year Seminars and Writing Program, Emmanuel College
1995
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Bruce Ballenger (Composition), Beyond Note Cards: Rethinking the Freshman Research Paper
Professor of English and former department Chair at Boise State University
1992
- Xiaoming Li, (Composition)
Professor of English, Long Island University