Writing Program
2015-16 General Catalog
209 Humanities 1
(831) 459-2431
http://writing.ucsc.edu/
Program Statement | Course Descriptions
Faculty and Professional Interests
Lecturer with Security of Employment
Heather Shearer, Chair
Writing program administration; curriculum design and assessment; rhetorical practices of intentional communities; technical communication; usability of complex information products
James Wilson
Modern European literary, artistic, intellectual, and political movements (especially of France, Italy, and Spain); poetry of Ezra Pound; Provencal poetry; classical Chinese poetry and philosophy; poetry translation; argument in popular culture; the rhetoric of sports; public speaking; medical science; graduate student teaching mentorship; composition pedagogy for first-year and multilingual students
Kimberly Helmer
Spanish heritage language learning, English for academic purposes, assessing multimodality
Tonya Ritola
Writing program administration; curriculum design and assessment; organizational rhetoric; genre studies
Roswell Spafford, Emerita
Senior Lecturer with Security of Employment
Elizabeth Abrams
Composition and rhetoric; writing pedagogy, writing across the curriculum; 19th-century and 20th-century American history and literature, especially concerning the Civil War
Carol M. Freeman, Emerita
Lecturer
Margaret Amis
Writing; pre- and early modern English literature; prose style
Sondra Archimedes, College Nine Writing Coordinator
Writing pedagogy; 19th- and early 20th-century British literature; gender studies; cultural studies
Derede Arthur
Cultural studies, 18th–20th-century British literature, theory of the novel, theories of education, cognitive ethology
Mark Baker, Oakes College Writing Coordinator
Media and democracy, postmodernism, 20th-century literature and culture of the Americas, community participation, writing and social responsibility
Farnaz Fatemi
Writing, poetry, writing pedagogy, comics and graphic novels, Middle East issues and cross-cultural perspectives, contemporary American literature.
BK Faunce
Late 18th-century and early 19th-century British literary culture, film, literary theory
Joy Hagen, College Eight Writing Coordinator
Science writing; writing for physical and biological sciences; ecological risks of genetically engineered organisms; population dynamics; agroecology and food systems; entomology; science and uncertainty (Science and Technology Studies); California Common Core standards
Erica Halk, College Ten Writing Coordinator
Post-secondary reading and writing pedagogy; American literature; cultural criticism; gender studies
Roxanne Power Hamilton
Writing, poetry, magazine editing, inter-arts performance, gender and queer studies
Robin King, Oakes College Writing Coordinator
Visual arts, media criticism, sociology of learning and emotions, multi-cultural studies, politics of food
Lindsay Knisely
Digital identity production in youth; establishing ethos in writing; writing of witness; African-American literature and literary theory; writing as social activism; writing as identity development; poetry analysis and interpretation; development of critical consciousness
Toby Loeffler
Writing pedagogy; early 20th-century British and Spanish literature; history and theory of the British and European novel; British and European modernism; literature and nationalism; ideology; cultural studies
Brij Lunine, Stevenson College Writing Coordinator
Writing pedagogy; writing across the curriculum, teaching research; reception studies, cultural studies, popular culture and youth subcultures
Patrick McKercher
Virtual reality educational environments, outreach projects, collaborative research with James Burke, environmental education
Ingrid Moody Lariviere, Porter College Writing Coordinator
Ellen Newberry, Merrill College Writing Coordinator
Educational partnerships with K–12 schools, transfer/re-entry student writing, women’s studies, and queer studies
Sarah-Hope Parmeter, Coordinator, Entry Level Writing Requirement (ELWR)
Writing and democracy; multilingual, multicultural rhetorics; cross-age writing partnerships and public school collaboratives; lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender young adult literature; rhetoric of the sciences
Annalisa Rava, Crown College Writing Coordinator
Animals and human society, science fiction studies, literature and postmodernism
Denise Silva
Cultural studies; urban studies; gender studies; 19th- and 20th-century British literature; composition and rhetoric
Robin Somers
Sustainable agriculture and cooking organically; online journalism (blogging), Native American literature, culture and politics
Amy Weaver
Creative nonfiction, writing pedagogy
Revised: 09/01/15
