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Workshop Speakers and Mentor Faculty Members 2014

Kerrie Carsey, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition, York College of Pennsylvania 

Research Interests:     

  • History of Rhetoric

  • Rhetorical Theory

  • Composition Pedagogy, including Digital Pedagogy

  • Religious Rhetoric and Homiletics

  • History of Composition

 

Cynthia Crimmins, MS Ed

Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning and English and Humanities Instructor,

York College of Pennsylvania 

Research Interests:     

  • Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 

  • Faculty Learning Communities 

  • Student Learning 

  • Methods: Focus groups, surveys, interviews, examining artifacts 

 

Gabriel Cutrufello, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition,  York College of Pennsylvania 

Research Interests: 

  • Rhetoric of Science

  • History of Rhetoric

  • Rhetorical Genre Studies

  • Composition Pedagogy 

 

Dominic DelliCarpini, Ph.D.

Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of English, York College of Pennsylvania 

Research Interests: 

  • Writing Program Administration

  • The Teaching of Writing

  • Civic Rhetoric and Civic Engagement

  • Student Learning Assessment

  • Early Modern Literature and Reformation Culture/Theology

 

Bill Fitzgerald, Ph.D.

Associate Professor  and Director of the  Teaching Matters and Assessment Center,

Rutgers University: Camden 

Research Interests: 

  • Rhetoric of Religion

  • Kenneth Burke

  • The Rhetoric of Style

  • Literacy Studies

  • Media Studies

  • Genre

 

Jennifer Follett, M.A. 

Writing Center Director, York College of Pennsylvania 

Research Interests: 

  • Writing Center Tutors and their Strategies

  • Meeting the Needs of Students in the Writing Center

  • Emotion in the Writing Center

  • Conversational Analysis of Tutoring Session

 

Jessie Moore, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of English and Associate Director of the Center for Engaged Learning,

Elon University 

Research Interests: 

  • Writing Transfer

  • Writing Lives of University Students

  • Digital Literacies and Writing

  • Second Language Writing

  •  Writing, Rhetoric, and Civic Action

 

 

Leigh Ryan, Ph.D.

Writing Center Director, University of Maryland 

Research Interests: 

  •     Writing Program Administration

  •     Teaching of Writing

  •     Writing Center Theory and Practice

  •     Tutor Training and Development

  •     19th Century Antebellum South

  •     Archival Research 

 

Erec Smith, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition, York College of Pennsylvania 

Research Interests: 

  • Political Rhetoric

  • Buddhist philosophy and rhetoric

  • Rhetorics of diversity

  • Composition Pedagogy

  • Discourse and Identity

 

 

Sam Waddell, M.A. 

Instructor of Writing, York College of Pennsylvania 

Research Interests: 

  • Developmental Writing Best Practices

  • First Year Writing Assessment

  • Writing Center Activities

  • Peer Writing Tutor

  • Involvement in First Year Composition Course Work

  • Quantitative Research Methods 

 

Madeline D. Yonker, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition, York College of Pennsylvania 

Research Interests: 

  • Rhetoric and Technology

  • Composition Pedagogy

  • Digital Humanities

  • The Rhetoric of Motherhood

  • Participatory Culture and Rhetoric

 

Michael Zerbe, Ph.D.

Writing Program Administrator  and Associate Professor of English, York College of Pennsylvania 

Research Interests: 

  • Rhetorics of Science and Medicine

  • Rhetoric and Composition and Science Literacy

 

Lisa Zimmerelli, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor and Writing Center Director, Loyola University 

Recent Research Interests: 

  • Tutor Training and Development

  • Feminist Historiography 

  • Women's Religious Rhetoric

  • Genre Studies

 

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