Professor, Second Language Acquisition / Teaching - GIDP | Professor, English | Member of the Graduate Faculty | Executive Director, General Education
Her research focuses on writing in the disciplines, technology in writing instruction, writing program and higher education administration, labor in writing programs, and L2 writing. Her work has appeared in the journals WPA: Writing Program Administration, College Composition and Communication, Composition Studies, Computers and Composition, Enculturation, and Teaching English in the Two-Year College, as well as several edited collections. She is a co-editor of Composition, Rhetoric, and Disciplinarity Utah State UP, 2018) Rhetorically Rethinking Usability Hampton Press, 2009) and Strategies for Teaching First-Year Composition National Council of Teachers of English, 2002) She is also a co-author of An Insider’s Guide to Academic Writing Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2017) The Cengage Guide to Research Wadsworth/Cengage, 2017) and Keys for Writers Cengage, 2016) She has been the PI or co-PI on fifteen separate grants related to technology, writing instruction, and classroom design totaling nearly 120,000) She has served on the Executive Committee of the Conference on College Composition and Communication and the Executive Board of the Council of Writing Program Administrators, and she is a Past President of the Council of Writing Program Administrators 2015-2017)