Contributors
- Contributors
John C. Brereton has taught writing at the City University of New York, Wayne State University, Columbia University, the University of Massachusetts, Brandeis University, and Harvard University. Among his publications are The Norton Reader, Living Literature, The Origins of Composition Studies in the American College, and many articles and reviews. He is professor emeritus of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
William Conlogue is professor of English at Marywood University, where he teaches an introduction to world literature and a variety of courses in American literature. He is the author of Working the Garden: American Writers and the Industrialization of Agriculture (2001).
Jeffry C. Davis is associate professor of English at Wheaton College (IL), where he directs the writing center and the program for interdisciplinary studies. The 2006 – 7 recipient of Wheaton’s Leland Ryken Award for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities, Davis teaches writing, world literature, composition theory and pedagogy, and senior seminars in English. Much of his scholarship focuses on ancient rhetorical connections to composition, liberal learning, and instruction. His work on Quintilian has appeared in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies (2007) and the Journal of Teaching Writing (2002).
Robin Dizard lives in western Massachusetts. Professor emerita of English at Keene State College, she writes about the literature of the Black Atlantic and how to teach race using texts set in the Caribbean. Her publications include “I See What You Mean: It’s a Rebus,” in Perspectives in Developmental Education (1993), “A Tale of Two Colleges,” in Change magazine (1993), and “Toni Morrison, the Slave Narratives and Modernism,” forthcoming in the Massachusetts Review.
Peg Downes is professor in the Department of Literature and Language and director of the Master of Liberal Arts program at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. She has served as a consultant to colleges and universities in the U.S. and abroad. Her publications focus on non-Western literature and on the curricula and pedagogy of interdisciplinary general and liberal arts education. [End Page 451]
Cinthia Gannett is director of Core Writing at Fairfield University in Connecticut. She has also directed writing and WAC programs at Loyola College in Maryland and the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of Gender and the Journal (1992) and various articles on diaries, journals, and portfolios. Her recent research interests include current international work in composition studies, including the uses of translation theory, the development of WAC/WID/Writing Center Archives, and Jesuit rhetoric. With Joseph Janangelo at Loyola University and Thomas Pace at John Carroll University, she is currently coediting a collection on Jesuit rhetorical traditions and rhetorical pedagogy.
Mark C. Long is professor of English and American Studies at Keene State College, where he teaches twentieth-century American poetry, environmental writing, and the teaching of reading and writing. He also writes about the profession of English studies. His most recent publications include an essay on bioregionalism in the Indian Journal of Ecocriticism and a coedited collection of essays, Teaching North American Environmental Literature. He serves as associate editor of Pedagogy and as coordinator of the mentoring program for the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE-US).
Kathleen McCormick is professor of literature and pedagogy at Purchase College, SUNY. She is the author or editor of seven books, including Reading Our Histories, Understanding Our Culture and The Culture of Reading and the Teaching of English, which won the Modern Language Association’s Mina Shaughnessy Award, and Approaches to Teaching James Joyce’s Ulysses (coedited with Erwin Steinberg). She has just finished coediting (with Edvige Giunta) Teaching Italian American Literature, Film, and Popular Culture and is currently working on a book-length memoir, “Why Is God in Daddy’s Slippers?” Chapters from the memoir have appeared in Witness, the South Carolina Review, the Rambler, and the Northwest Review, among others. [End Page 452]
Stuart Y. McDougal grew up in Southern California and attended Haverford College and the University of Pennsylvania. He taught in the Departments of English, Comparative Literature, and Film/Video at the University of Michigan for twenty-six years, more than half that time as chair of Comparative Literature. His publications include Ezra Pound and the Troubadour...
