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Writing Program

Writing Program
Division of Humanities and Fine Arts
South Hall 1401, 1510-1523 and Girvetz 1306-1325 (Faculty Offices)
South Hall 3400 Suite (Advising & Administrative Offices)
Telephone: (805) 893-2613
Email: wpinfo@writing.ucsb.edu
Website: www.writing.ucsb.edu
Program Director: Linda Adler-Kassner, Ph.D.


 
Faculty
Linda Adler-Kassner, PhD, University of Minnesota, Professor (writing program administration; public policy and writing instruction; representations of writing and teaching; theories of writing and communication; writing studies; history/historiography of education and writing; writing pedagogy)
Katie Baillargeon, PhD, UC Santa Barbara, Continuing Senior Lecturer (Academic Research Writing [humanities, social sciences]; Legal Writing; Baroque Musicology; Food Studies; Graduate-Level and Dissertation Writing)
Kara Mae Brown, MFA, Emerson College, Lecturer SOE (creative writing; online writing instruction; e-portfolios; comics) Joint Appointment: CRSTU
Ljiljana Coklin, PhD, University of Western Ontario, Continuing Senior Lecturer (Academic Research Writing, Film and Film Studies, Writing in Global Contexts [Non-profit Sector, Immigration, Social Justice])
Craig Cotich, MA, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, Continuing Senior Lecturer (Professional Editing; Rhetorical Grammar; Style; Professional Writing)
Chris Dean, PhD, University of New Hampshire, Continuing Lecturer (computers and writing; writing assessment; adjunct and contingent faculty research; First-year Composition; Urban Legends and counter-knowledge)
James Donelan, PhD, Yale University, Continuing Lecturer (interdisciplinary humanities writing, Romanticism, aesthetics, literature and music, philosophical approaches to writing and literature)
Trish Fancher, Continuing Lecturer
Gina Genova, JD, McGeorge School of Law, Continuing Lecturer (Professional writing: law, business)
Michelle Grue, Lecturer Potential SOE Joint Appointment: CRSTU
Leslie Hammer, PhD, UC San Diego, Continuing Lecturer (writing in the disciplines, first-year composition; US women's writing; multi-ethnic US literature; US literature and culture; critical race theory; postcolonial studies)
Jeffrey Hanson, MA, UC Santa Barbara, Continuing Lecturer (Professional writing: business, global careers; English for multilingual students; TA and ITA training and supervision)
Deborah Harris, PhD, University of Arizona, Continuing Lecturer (materialist rhetoric; medical rhetoric; film and media; popular culture; academic writing)
Sarah Hirsch, Continuing Lecturer
Victoria Houser, Lecturer Potential SOE
Peter Huk, PhD, University of Southern California, Continuing Lecturer (academic research writing, writing and sustainability, film studies, engineering writing)
Jennifer Johnson, PhD, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Continuing Senior Lecturer (Writing across the Curriculum; Academic Research Writing; Professional Writing: Accounting; Teacher Training)
Robert Krut, MA, Arizona University, Continuing Lecturer (Creative Writing, Composition, Outreach, Professional Writing, Popular Culture, Film Studies)
Karen Lunsford, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Associate Professor (writing across the curriculum and in the disciplines (WAC/WID); argumentation; computers and writing; international writing programs; writing studies; library and information science; collaboration)
Patrick McHugh, PhD, Binghamton University, Continuing Senior Lecturer (Literature and philosophy; business and administrative communication,environmental writing)
Nomi Morris, Continuing Lecturer
Ellen O'Connell Whittet, Continuing Lecturer
Paul Rogers, Associate Professor
Robert Samuels, PhD, University of Paris VIII, Kent State, Continuing Senior Lecturer (Social Science Writing, Public Discourse, Writing for the Teaching Professions, Higher Education and Public Policy)
Kenneth Smith, Continuing Lecturer
Madeleine Sorapure, PhD, SUNY-Binghamton, Senior Lecturer SOE (writing in new media; computers and composition; professional writing; writing and popular culture)
Amanda Stansell, PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Continuing Lecturer (writing studies, writing across the curriculum and in the disciplines (WAC/WID), computers and writing)
Christian Thomas, Continuing Lecturer
Nicole Warwick, PhD, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Continuing Lecturer (writing assessment; rhetoric; social science writing; first-year writing; teacher development; narrative research)

 
Emeriti Faculty
Susan McLeod, PhD, University of Wisconsin
Muriel Zimmerman, PhD, Temple University