Writing and Rhetoric Faculty - English

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Writing and Rhetoric Faculty

Elizabeth Britt

Professor of English

Beth Britt is a feminist rhetorical theorist and critic whose research focuses on legal rhetoric. She is the author of Reimagining Advocacy: Rhetorical Education in the Legal Clinic (Penn State University Press, 2018) and Conceiving Normalcy: Rhetori…
Ellen Cushman

Dean’s Professor of Civic Sustainability; Professor of English

As Dean’s Professor of Civic Sustainability, Ellen’s research explores the perseverance of people made possible with reading and writing. She’s currently co-leading a team that is developing a digital archive to support the translat…
Chris Gallagher

Professor of English

Chris Gallagher has published widely on the teaching and assessment of writing and on educational innovation at both the K-12 and higher education levels. He is author or co-author of five books and many articles in writing studies and education jour…
Neal Lerner

Professor of English

Neal Lerner teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in writing and the teaching of writing. Lerner is the author of over 40 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on the history, theory, and practice of learning and teaching writing, and is a fi…
Mya Poe

Professor of English

Mya Poe’s research focuses on writing assessment and writing development with particular attention to justice and fairness. For more than 20 years she has advocated for eliminating writing assessment practices that result in unnecessary structural ba…
K.J. Rawson

Professor of English and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Director of the Humanities Center

K.J. Rawson works at the intersections of the Digital Humanities and Rhetoric, LGBTQ+, and Feminist Studies. Focusing on archives as key sites of cultural power, he studies the rhetorical work of queer and transgender archival collections in brick-an…
Qianqian Zhang-Wu

Assistant Professor of English; Director of Multilingual Writing

A passionate researcher, a devoted educator, and a nerdy applied linguist, Dr. Qianqian Zhang-Wu’s research focuses on multilingualism, multilingual writing, translingualism and TESOL. Her work appears in high-impact, peer-reviewed journals, such as …