Contributors
- Contributors
W. Douglas Baker is assistant professor of English education at Eastern Michigan University, where he teaches courses in elementary and secondary English methods. He is a codirector of the Eastern Michigan Writing Project and the coordinator of an annual conference for new teachers.
Patricia Bills is a fifth-grade teacher at Washington Writers’ Academy, an urban elementary writing magnet school in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Her work as a teacher consultant for the Third Coast Writing Project, a National Writing Project site in Kalamazoo, includes leading the New Teacher Initiative and providing professional development in writing to area elementary schools. She has taught for eleven years at the elementary and middle school levels, including teaching appointments in the School of Education at Western Michigan University.
Patricia Bizzell is professor and chair of the English department at the College of the Holy Cross, where she has directed the Writers’ Workshop, the Writing-across-the-Curriculum Program, and the Honors Program. Among her publications are The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical to Contemporary Times (2001), coauthored and coedited with Bruce Herzberg, and ALT-DIS: Alternative Discourses and the Academy, coedited with Christopher Schroeder and Helen Fox (2002). She is president of the Rhetoric Society of America and is editing the proceedings of the 2004 biennial international RSA conference.
Jonathan Bush is assistant professor of English education at Western Michigan University, where he teaches courses in teacher education and composition studies. He is the coauthor (with Janet Alsup) of But Will It Work with Real Students? Scenarios for Teaching Secondary English Language Arts (NCTE, 2003). He is also a codirector in the Third Coast Writing Project and coeditor of the Language Arts Journal of Michigan.
Miriam Marty Clark is an associate professor at Auburn University, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in poetry, the short story, and American literature and culture. She also frequently teaches one of Auburn’s freshman honors writing seminars. She has published on a range of modern and contemporary writers, including Ernest Hemingway, William Trevor, A. R. Ammons, Alice Munro, and Ann Beattie.
Brenda Daly is University Professor of English and women’s studies at Iowa State University. During a year’s leave in 2003–4, she worked on two book-lengt interdisciplinary, mixed-genre projects: “Deep Learning: An Aging Feminist’s Continuing Education” and a study of the familial gaze, tentatively titled “Lost Albums.” An earlier book, which also mixes autobiography with scholarship, Authoring a Life: A Woman’s Survival in and through Literary Studies, was published in 1998.
Audrey Fisch is an associate professor of English and elementary and secondary education at New Jersey City University, where she coordinates the secondary English education program. She is the author of American Slaves in Victorian England: Abolitionist Politics in Popular Literature and Culture (2003) and coeditor of The Other Mary Shelley (1993). She has also written for Salon.com and the New York Times.
Ann Jurecic is the associate director of the Princeton Writing Program, where she teaches and assists in administrating the three branches of the program: the Writing Seminars, Writing in the Disciplines, and the Writing Center. She has recently published in WPA: Journal of the Council of Writing Program Administrators and is working on a book titled “On Writing and Healing” that examines writing in the traditional humanities and in medicine and that asks whether writing can humanize medical institutions’ practices.
Ivan Kreilkamp is assistant professor in the Department of English at Indiana University, where he coedits the journal Victorian Studies. His book Voice and the Victorian Storyteller will be published in 2005.
Anna Leahy is an assistant professor at North Central College. Her coauthored (with Debora Rindge) article about a team-taught writing course recently appeared in Composition Studies, and her creative work has appeared in the Connecticut Review, The Journal, Quarter After Eight, and other literary journals. She is the editor of the forthcoming collection The Authority Project: Power and Identity in the Creative Writing Classroom.
Sherry Linkon is a professor of English and American studies and is codirector of the Center for Working-Class Studies at Youngstown State University. She was named a Carnegie Scholar in 1999. In 2003, she was named Ohio...
