Composition:
Literacy, Pedagogy, Rhetoric
Doctoral Student Locations, Dissertations, and Committees by Year of
Completion, 1992-2008
1992
Richard Miller
Rutgers University (Professor, English)
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Link>>“Representing The People: The Problems and Promises of Popular Reading Practices”
Chair: David Bartholomae
Readers: Joseph Harris, Jane Feuer, and Danae Clark
1993
Rita Capezzi
Canisius College (Associate Dean, Student Advisement Center)
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Link>>“Materializing ‘Domesticity’: Women and the Material and Discursive Practices of Culture in the United States, 1800-1916”
Chair: Stephen Carr
Readers: Jonathan Arac, Jean Ferguson Carr, and Patrizia Lombardo
Donna Dunbar-Odom
Texas A&M University-Commerce (Associate Professor, Literature & Languages)
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Link>>“Speaking for others: Failed Claims of Liberatory Pedagogy”
Chair: David Bartholomae
Readers: Jean Ferguson Carr, Philip Smith, Mariolina Salvatori, and Brenda Berrian
1994
Barbara Schroeder
Director of Development, Foundation, and Corporate Relations, Children’s Hospital
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“Educating Female Subjects in England, 1780-1850: A Study of How the Literary and Cultural Representation of the Education of Women Illustrate the Ways in Which Education Both Subjugates and Empowers”
Chair: Stephen Carr
Readers: Carol Kay, Marianne Novy, and Janelle Greenberg
Kathleen Welsch
Clarion University (Associate Professor, English)
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Link>>“19th-Century Composition: Relationships Between Pedagogical Concerns and
Cultural Values in American Colleges, 1859-1890”Chair: David Bartholomae
Readers: Jean Carr, Joseph Harris, and N. Gorman
1995
Barbara McCarthy
Asnuntuck Community College (Dean, Academic Affairs)
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“Riding the Brake: Disciplinary Change in Contemporary English Studies”
Chair: Paul Bové
Readers: Lynn Emanuel, David Bartholomae, Mariolina Salvatori, and Iris Marion Young
Stephen Parks
Syracuse University (Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric)
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“A History of ‘The Students’ Rights to Their Own Language’ Resolution as Promulgated by the Conference on College Composition and Communication, 1974”
Chair: Jonathan Arac
Readers: David Bartholomae, Joseph Harris, Nancy Glazener, and John Beverley
Matthew Willen
Elizabethtown College (Associate Professor, English)
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“Composing Mountaineering: The Personal Narrative and the Production of Knowledge in the Alpine Club of London and the Appalachian Mountain Club, 1858-1900”
Chair: David Bartholomae
Readers: Philip Smith, Margaret Marshall, Mariolina Salvatori, and
Anthony Petrosky
1996
Jeff Galin
Florida Atlantic University (Associate Professor, English)
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“Sixty Years of Multicultural Education Unmasked: A Study of Discursive Strategies and Institutional Practices”
Chair: Paul Kameen
Readers: Nicholas Coles, Michael Helfand, William Smith, and Glynda Hull
Stephen Sutherland
U. Mass Boston (Assistant Professor)
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“In-Citing Change: The Pedagogical Politics of Revision and Citation”
Chair: David Bartholomae
Readers: Philip Smith, Mariolina Salvatori, Joseph Harris, and
Susan Wall
Linda Jordan Platt
La Roche College (Associate Professor, English)
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“Learning to Read in the Real Sense: Stories of Reading and American Schooling”
Chair: Jean Ferguson Carr
Readers: David Bartholomae, William L. Smith, and Isabel Beck
Paula Kristofik
Eastern Kentucky University (Associate Professor, English)
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“The Signification of Chalk: Teacher/Students-in-the-Classroom, John Dewey and U.S. Progressive Education, and the Desire of Pedagogy”
Chair: Mariolina Salvatori
Readers: David Bartholomae, Stephen Carr, and Mark B. Ginsburg
1997
Melanie Dawson
College of William and Mary (Visiting Assistant Professor, English)
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“From Carnival to Nostalgia: The Play of Cultural Literacy in the Nineteenth-Century Parlor”
Chair: Jean Carr
Readers: Joseph Harris, Susan Harris Smith, and Paula Kane
Bianca Falbo
Lafayette College (Associate Professor, English)
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“Authorship and the Circulation of Literate Practices in the Anglo-American Field of Cultural Production, 1790-1860”
Chair: Jean Carr
Readers: Joseph Harris, Stephen Carr, Nancy Glazener, and Patrizia Lombardo
1998
Gwendolen Gorzelsky
Wayne State University (Associate Professor, English)
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“Echoes Half Heard: Community Activists, Collective Moments”
Chair: David Bartholomae
Readers: Stephen Carr, Jonathan Arac, Marianne Novy, and James Thompson
Lynn Casmier-Paz
University of Central Florida (Associate Professor, English)
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“The Effects of Literacy in English Language Slave Narrative”
Chair: Jonathan Arac
Readers: Ronald Judy, James Seitz, and Henry Krips
James Zukowski
Lake Superior State University (Associate Professor, English)
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“Negotiating Reading and Writing through History: The British Novel and Other Instructional Texts, 1740-1829”
Chair: Stephen Carr
Readers: Mariolina Salvatori, James Seitz, and Janelle Greenburg
1999
John Nichols
Christopher Newport University (Associate Professor, English)
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“Instituting Interpretation: Amateurs and Advice Texts”
Co-Chairs: Susan Harris Smith and Mariolina Salvatori
Readers: David Bartholomae, Jean Ferguson Carr, and David Shumway
Cherise Pollard
West Chester University (Associate Professor, English)
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“They Can Burn All the Papers but They Can’t Burn Conscious:An Exploration of the Problematics of Historical Experience In African-American Culture”
Chair: Jean Ferguson Carr
Readers: Kirk Savage, Brenda F. Berrian, Jonathan Arac and Jim Knapp
Julia Sawyer
Early Childhood Consultant, Williamsport, PA
“Telling Time: Temporality and the Educational Enterprise”
Chair: David Bartholomae
Readers: Jean Ferguson Carr, Jonathan Arac, and Tony Petrosky
2001
Christine Abbott
LaRoche College (Associate Professor, Director of Writer’s Center)
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“Heresies, Dreams, and Emotions Reclaimed: Feminist Refigurings of Composition’s Outposts”
Chair: Jean Carr
Readers: James Seitz, Lorraine Higgins, and Noreen Garman
Anne A. Stafford
University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Lecturer, English)
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“Looking at Voice in Composition Through the Lens of Drama from Rhetoric to Role Play 20th Century Dramatic Pedagogies”
Co-Chairs: Joseph Harris and Philip Smith
Readers: James Seitz and Stephen M. Koziol, Jr.
2002
Patricia Sullivan
Northeastern University (Assistant Professor, English)
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“Avant-Garde Composition: Pedagogies of Experimental Writing”
Chair: Jim Seitz
Readers: Paul Kameen, Kathryn Flannery, and Jonathan Arac
2005
Richard E. Parent
University of Vermont (Assistant Professor of English)
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“The Digital Affect: A Rhetorical Hermeneutic for Reading, Writing, and Understanding Narrative in Contemporary Literature and New Media”
Chair: Mariolina Salvatori
Readers: Philip Smith, James Seitz and Stuart Moulthrop
2006
Christopher Warnick
College of Charleston, South Carolina (Assistant Professor, English)
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“Student Writing, Politics, and Style, 1962-1979”
Chair: Jean Ferguson Carr
Readers: James Seitz, David Bartholomae, and Lester Olson
2007
Malkiel Choseed
Onondaga Community College (Assistant Professor, English/Reading/Communication)
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“Representations of Teaching, Curriculum Reform, and the Formation of Collegiate English”
Chair: Jean Ferguson Carr
Readers: Paul Kameen, John Twyning and Dennis Looney
Ellen Gerber Carillo
University of Connecticut (Assistant Professor / Writing Coordinator, Waterbury Campus)
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“Modernist Pedagogies: Conrad, Wolf, Pound, and the Reading Public”
Co-Chairs: James Seitz and Troy Boone
Readers: Colin MacCabe and Phil Watts
Brenda M. Glascott
California State – San Bernardino (Assistant Professor)
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“The Ends of Literacy Education: Evangelical Protestantism and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of Contemporary Writing Instruction”
Chair: Kathryn Flannery
Readers: Nancy Glazener, Stephen L. Carr, Donna Strickland
Kirstin M. Hanley
SUNY Fredonia (Assistant Professor, English)
“Redefining Didactic Convention: Mary Wollstonecraft and Feminist Discourses of Appropriation”
Chair: Stephen L. Carr
Readers: Don Bialostosky, Jean Ferguson Carr, Amanda Godley
2008
Tara Lockhart
San Francisco State University (Assistant Professor, English)
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“Revising the Essay: Intellectual Arenas and Hybrid Forms”
Chair: David Bartholomae
Readers: Don Bialostosky, Mariolina Salvatori, Nancy Glazener
Margaret Stahr
Catawba College (Assistant Professor, English, Director of the Writing Center)
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"'As If Through Another's Eyes': A Study of Peer Tutoring
and First-Year Students' REvision Behaviors"
Chair: Stephen Carr
Readers: Jean Ferguson Carr, James Seitz, Amanda
Godley.