Associate Dean for the Humanities
Office: Holton Hall 244
Phone: 414-229-5891
e-mail: cis@uwm.edu
Curriculum Vita: Vita (pdf 108k)
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1978
M.A., Hunter College, CUNY, 1971
B.A. Ohio State University, 1967
Composition Studies
Rhetorical Theory
Writing Program Administration
Nonfictional Prose
Bakhtinian Theory
Narrative Theory
Editing and Publishing
Introductory and Advanced Writing
Composition Studies
Rhetorical Theory
Writing Program Administration
The Essay, Bakhtin as Rhetorical Theorist
Style and Language
Creative Nonfiction
Associate Dean for the Humanities, 1999-present
College Editor, Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 2001-present
Director of the Edison Initiative (Freshman Scholars, Peer Mentoring, Writing across the Curriculum), 1996-99
Director of the Writing Center, 1994-96
Director of Composition, 1985-92
Participant in the Carnegie Foundation's Teachers for a New Era Project
President, Council of Writing Program Administrators, 1994-96
Rhetorical Choices, 2nd edition, Penguin Academic Series, co-edited with Keith Gilyard and Deborah Holdstein, Longman Publishers, 2006; 1st edition, 2004.
Speculations: Culture, Identity, and Values, A multicultural freshman anthology with assignment sequences, Blair Press (Simon & Schuster/Prentice Hall), 1992; 2nd ed. 1996.
"Introduction" to The War Against Grammar by David Mulroy, Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 2003, vii-x.
"Confessions of an Associate Dean," WPA Journal, 24,3 (Spring, 2001), 83-98.
"Writing about Literature and Culture," Literature and the Environment (and published in all the other volumes in this series 1999-2002), Longman, 1999, 504-29.
"Mikhail Bakhtin as Rhetorical Theorist," reprinted in Landmark Essays on Bakhtin, Rhetoric, and Writing, ed. Frank Farmer (Erlbaum), 1998.
"Foreword: Two Stories Absent Their Morals," Grading in the Post-Process Classroom, ed. Libby Allison, Lizbeth Bryant, Maureen Hourigan. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 1997, ix-xiii.
"Foreword," Popular Fiction, ed. Gary Hoppenstand. New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 1997, vii-ix.
"Seeking a Disciplinary Reformation," Composition in the Twenty-First Century, ed. Lynn Z. Bloom, Donald Daiker, Edward White. Carbondale: Southern Illinois U. Press, 1996, 146-49.
