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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