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)	200C Wesbrook Hall 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)	150E Wesbrook Hall 612-624-6727 lkbreuch@umn.edu
Patrick Bruch Associate Professor	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)	200D Wesbrook Hall 612-625-6041 patbruch@umn.edu
Ann Duin Professor, Associate VP and Deputy CIO ADCS	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)	190 Shepherd Labs 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)	150A Wesbrook Hall 612-624-4985 graff013@umn.edu
Alan Gross Professor	Rhetoric of science and scientific controversy; role of scientific methods in the humanities; history of the scientific article from the 17th century to present	The Rhetoric of Science (Harvard University Press)	180 Wesbrook Hall 612-624-1209 agross@umn.edu
Laura Gurak Professor and Chair	Rhetorics of science and technology; rhetorical criticism; Internet studies; online research methods; social aspects of computing; the law and technology (intellectual property and privacy); electronic literacies; technical and professional communication	Cyberliteracy: Navigating the Internet with Awareness (Yale University Press)	180B Wesbrook Hall 612-624-1784 gurakl@umn.edu
Amy Lee Associate Professor and PSTL Chair	Composition theory, critical pedagogy, and writing pedagogy	Composing Critical Pedagogies: Teaching Writing As Revision (Natl Council of Teachers)	276 Appleby Hall 612-625-0884 amylee@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)	202C Wesbrook Hall 612-624-4709 logie@umn.edu
Bernadette Longo Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies (M.S.)	Cultural histories of technical communication; computer technologies in popular culture; technical writing textbooks as cultural artifacts; the idea of community; computer-assisted pedagogy; technical and professional communication	Spurious Coin: A History of Science, Management, and Technical Writing (SUNY Press)	200B Wesbrook Hall 612-624-9781 blongo@umn.edu
Earl McDowell Professor	Technical communication apprehension; technical communication programs; employment cycle interviewing; conflict; gender and psychological sex; international aspects of technical communication; comparison of U.S. and Japanese students on different communication variables	Interviewing Practices for Technical Writers (Baywood)	202D Wesbrook Hall 137 ClaOff Bldg 612-624-3657 mcdow001@umn.edu
Daniel Philippon Associate Professor	Environmental rhetoric, history, and ethics; nature writing; science and religion; American cultural studies; regionalism and place studies	Conserving Words: How American Nature Writers Shaped the Environmental Movement (University of Georgia Press)	143 Wesbrook Hall 612-624-4209 danp@umn.edu
Thomas Reynolds Associate Professor and Director of First-Year Writing	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	150D Wesbrook Hall 612-626-0065 reyno004@umn.edu
Donald Ross Professor	Literature: the American "Renaissance" and movements which preceded and followed it; theory of the novel; travel writing. Composition: the role of computers and word processors in writing instruction; writing in academic disciplines	American History and Culture from the Explorers to Cable TV (Peter Lang)	202F Wesbrook Hall 612-625-5585 rossj001@umn.edu
Chris Russill Assistant Professor	Environmental communication, communication Theory, cultural studies and American pragmatism. My current work examines the tension between expert knowledge and public participation as it shapes the formulation of environmental problems, particularly climate change, and I teach environmental communication as part of the new Environmental Science Policy and Management Program .	Russill, C. 2007. Communication Problems in a Pragmatist Perspective. Communication Monographs 74: 125-130	200E Wesbrook Hall russill@umn.edu
Mary Schuster Professor	Gender and communication; reproductive technologies; feminist theory and rhetoric of science and technology; rhetorical analysis of public hearings on midwifery in Minnesota	Body Talk: Rhetoric, Technology, Reproduction (University of Wisconsin Press)	150B Wesbrook Hall 612-624-2262 mmlay@umn.edu
Billie Wahlstrom Professor and 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
Arthur Walzer Professor	Rhetorical history and theory especially 18th century rhetorical theory; George Campbell. Classical theory, especially Aristotle and Quintilian. Rhetoric and ethics--classical, modern and postmodern.	George Campbell:Rhetoric in the Age of Enlightenment (SUNY Press, 2002)	202E Wesbrook Hall 612-624-3058 awalzer@umn.edu