University of Minnesota
Department of Writing Studies
612-624-3445
writ@umn.edu


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Tenured and Tenure Track Faculty

Name & Position Teaching & Research Interests Key Publication Contact Information
Carol Berkenkotter
Professor
Genre theory; rhetoric of science; discourse in the professions; sociocultural contexts of writing; qualitative research methodology Genre Knowledge in Disciplinary Communication: Cognition/culture/power (Lawrence Erlbaum) 221 Nolte
612-624-3721
cberken@umn.edu
Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch
Associate Professor,
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Technical communication programs; theory of composition and technical communication instruction; computer pedagogy; visual rhetoric; writing-across-the-curriculum; writing center theory; World Wide Web educational support and development Virtual Peer Review: Teaching and Learning About Writing in Online Environments (SUNY Press) 205 Nolte
612-624-6727
lkbreuch@umn.edu
Patrick Bruch
Associate Professor,
Director of First-Year Writing
Theory and history of composition studies, critical literacy and critical pedagogy, and cultural studies The Hope and the Legacy: The Past, Present, and Future of "Students' Right to Their Own Language" (Hampton Press) 209 Nolte
612-625-6041
patbruch@umn.edu
Ann Duin
Professor, Director of Graduate Studies (M.S. & Certificate)
Collaboration, distance education, and partnerships; working with organizations to provide citizens with better access to post-secondary instruction and other services made available by partnering institutions and businesses Partnering in the Learning Marketspace, Volume 4, Educause Leadership Strategies (Jossey-Bass) 208 Nolte
612-625-9259
ahduin@umn.edu
Richard Graff
Associate Professor
Classical Rhetoric; contemporary rhetorical theory; stylistics & rhetorical criticism The Viability Of The Rhetorical Tradition (SUNY Press) 221 Nolte
612-624-4985
graff013@umn.edu
Laura Gurak
Professor,
Chair
Digital literacies; Internet studies and online research methods; social aspects of computing; rhetoric and technology; technical and professional writing and communication Cyberliteracy: Navigating the Internet with Awareness (Yale University Press) 212 Nolte
612-624-1784
gurakl@umn.edu
Christina Haas
Professor
Editor, Written Communication
Writing theory; history of literacy; methodologies for the study of writing; writing and new media; everyday and workplace literacies; materiality and literacy; gesture and writing Writing Technologies: Studies in the Materiality of Literacy (Erlbaum, 1996)
211 Nolte
612-625-1815
chaas@umn.edu
John Logie
Associate Professor
Rhetorical theory; rhetoric of electronic writing spaces; sophistic rhetorics; constructions of authorship; intellectual property; visual rhetorics; computer-mediated communication; collaborative writing Peers, Pirates, and Persuasion: Rhetoric in the Peer-to-Peer Debates (Parlor) 206 Nolte
612-624-4709
logie@umn.edu
Thomas Reynolds
Associate Professor
Composition studies, including literacy history, popular rhetorics, technologies for writing instruction, and writing across the curriculum "Selling College Literacy to The Boy: The Mass-Market Magazineas Early 20th Century Literacy Sponsor." American Periodicals. 15.2 (2005): 163-177 207 Nolte
612-626-0065
reyno004@umn.edu
Donald Ross
Professor,
Director of Graduate Studies (M.A. & Ph.D.)
Travel writing, especially in 19th century America; rhetoric of argument; literary
stylistics; the role of computers in writing instruction; writing in academic disciplines; 19th-century American literature; relation of history and literature
Edited with James Schramer, American Travel Writers, 1776-1864 and American
Travel Writers, 1850-1915
(Gale); American History and Culture from the
Explorers to Cable TV
(Peter Lang).
223 Nolte
612-625-5585
rossj001@umn.edu
Mary Schuster
Professor
Feminist theory and rhetoric of science and technology; rhetorical and legal analysis of domestic violence, sexual assault, and child protection cases Victim Advocacy in the Courtroom, University Press of New England (Northeastern University Press series on Gender, Crime, and Law, 2011). 225 Nolte
612-624-2262
mmlay@umn.edu
Billie Wahlstrom
Professor,
Vice Provost
Design of distance learning materials; media selection; effects of new and emerging technologies; gender, ethics, and technology interactions Technical Communication (McGraw-Hill) 236 Morrill Hall
612-626-1027
bwahlstr@umn.edu

Affiliate Faculty

Name & Position Teaching & Research Interests
Lisa Albrecht
Associate Professor, AM
School of Social Work
Feminist, multicultural and social justice education; feminist alliance politics; antiracist and cross-class organizing
Robert L. Brown, Jr.
Associate Professor, ASM
Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature
Cultural studies of science and technology, rhetoric, literacy and critical pedagogy, theory and sociology of knowledge and taste, popular culture, culture and the environment, education and institutions, cultural ethnography
Karlyn K. Campbell
Professor, ASM
Communication Studies
Rhetorical criticism, rhetorical theory, political communication, women's communication, and social movement rhetoric
Shirley N. Garner
Professor, ASM
English
Renaissance literature, Shakespeare, feminist studies in literature, feminist psychoanalytic literary theory and criticism, autobiography
Ronald W. Greene
Associate Professor, ASM
Communication Studies
Political communication, debates, civic education; legal and popular perspectives on free speech; film exhibition, educational uses of film/movies; history of debates on population control
Alan G. Gross
Professor, SM
Communication Studies
Scientific communication, rhetorical theory, and visual communication
Joseph A. Konstan
Professor, ASM
Computer Science and Engineering
Human-computer interaction, recommender systems, online community, and computer systems for HIV prevention
Anne Lazaraton
Associate Professor, ASM
Second Language Studies
Applied linguistics, discourse analysis, qualitative and quantitative research methodology, English grammar in use, language teacher education, oral language assessment, language play in political blog discourse
Amy Lee
Associate Professor, ASM
Postsecondary Teaching and Learning
Teaching writing, intersections of feminist, process, and critical pedagogies in composition classrooms, how the learning of teaching happens, engaging diversity as a resource in college teaching and classrooms
Cynthia Lewis
Professor, ASM
Curriculum and Instruction
Critical Literacy and Digital media in urban high schools, classroom discourse, adolescent literacy and identity, critical discourse analysis, classroom ethnography
Daniel J. Philippon
Associate Professor, SM
English
Environmental literature, history, and ethics; ideas of nature, culture, and place; human dimensions of conservation biology
Edward A. Schiappa
Professor, ASM
Communication Studies
Argumentation, classical rhetoric, media influence, and contemporary rhetorical theory
Geoffrey Sirc
Professor, ASM
English, Language/Literature
History, practice & theory of writing instruction; new media; hip hop; popular culture
Elaine E. Tarone
Professor, ASM
ILES
Applied linguistics, bilingualism, immigrant English language acquisition, international student language acquisition, impact of alphabetic literacy on oral processing in second, language acquisition, learner language analysis by language teachers
Arthur E. Walzer
Professor, SM
Communication Studies
History of rhetoric, rhetoric and ethics, moral philosophy, civic rhetoric, classical rhetoric, Renaissance rhetoric, eighteenth-century rhetoric

RSTC Senior Members (SM) or Senior Affiliate Members (ASM) may chair M.A. and Ph.D. degree committees