Adjunct Instructor
peckhaiw@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Education
Ph.D., English and American Literature; Emphasis on Rhetoric and Composition. University of California, San Diego. 1990
M.A., English Literature. University of Wisconsin, Madison. 1970.
B.S., English Literature. University of Wisconsin, Madison. 1967.
Professional Focuses
Writing program administration, writing assessment, working class studies.
Publications
Books
Peckham, Irvin. Viajando sin Mapas (Traveling without Maps). Purple Breeze Press. Palm Harbor, FL. 2023.
Peckham, Irvin, Edward White, and Norbert Elliot. Very Like a Whale: The Assessment of Writing Programs. Utah State UP. 2015. Received the 2015 Award for Excellence in Program Assessment from the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication.
Peckham, Irvin. Going North, Thinking West: The Intersections of Social Class, Critical Thinking, and Politicized Writing Instruction. Logan, Utah. Utah State UP. 2010. Honorable Mention for 2011 Reflections Outstanding Book Award for Civic Scholarship.
Peckham, Irvin. Introduction to Writing at LSU. Electronic Textbook. McGraw-Hill. 2004.
Editor
Peckham, Irvin, Sherry Linkon, and Benjamin Lanier-Nabors. Special Issue of College English: Social Class and English Studies. 67 (2004).
Articles
Peckham, Irvin. “On the Road.” In Gray Love. Ed. Nan Bauer-Maglin and Daniel E. Hood. New Brunswick, NJ. Rutgers University Press. 2022. Print.
Peckham, Irvin. “Social Class and Sociolects.” In Working-Class Rhetorics. Ed. Jennifer Beach and Matt Guy. Leiden, The Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill. 2021. Print.
Peckham, Irvin, and Karen Nulton. “Writing Program Assessment, Attitude, and Construct Representation: A Case Study.” In Writing Assessment: Social Justice, and the Advancemewnt of Opportunity. Eds. Mya Poe, Asao Inoue, and Norbert Elliot. WAC Clearing House/University Press of Colorado. 2018. Print.
Peckham, Irvin, and Errol Sull. “Creating the Balanced Yet Exciting Online Classroom!” Distance Learning 12.4 (2015): 55-59. Print.
Peckham, Irvin. “Stone Walls Do Not a Prison Make.” Review Essay of A Rhetoric for Writing Program Administrators. WPA: Writing Program Administration. 38 (2015): 190-198.
Peckham, Irvin, and Dylan Dryer. “Social Contexts of Writing Assessment: Toward an Ecological Construct of ‘the Reader.’” WPA: Writing Program Administration. 38 (2014): 12-41. Recipient of the Kenneth Bruffee Best Article in WPA Award, 2014. Print.
Peckham, Irvin. “Placing Assessment and Curriculum in Dialogue with Each Other.” In Writing Assessment in the 21st Century: Essays in Honor of Edward White. Eds. Les Perelman and Norbert Elliot. New York: Hampton Press, 2012: 169-186. Print.
Peckham, Irvin, and Bradley Hammer. “The State of Contingency: A Report from the CCCC Committee on Part-time, Adjunct or Contingent Labor.” Forum 14.1 (2010): A3-A7. Print.
Peckham, Irvin. “Online Challenge Versus Offline ACT.” CCC. 62 (2010): 718-745. Print.
Peckham, Irvin. “Nightmares Can Be Useful: Resituating Re-articulation Agreements for Required Writing Courses in Louisiana.” Journal of College Writing. 10 (2010): 1-14. Print.
Peckham, Irvin. “Online Placement in First-Year Writing.” CCC. 60 (2009): 517-540. Print.
Peckham, Irvin. “Acting Justly.” In A 21st Century Approach to Teaching for Social Justice: Educating for Both Advocacy & Action. Ed. Richard Johnson, III. New York: Peter Lang Press, 2009: 75-90. Print.
Peckham, Irvin. “The Stories We Tell.” In Considering Class: Essays on the Discourse of the American Dream. Eds. Kevin Cahill and Lene Johannessen. Berlin: Lit Verlag. 2007: 169-182. Print.
Peckham, Irvin. “Turning Placement into Practice.” Writing Program Administration. 29 (2006): 65-84. Print.
Peckham, Irvin. “Interchanges: An Impertinent Answer.” CCC. 57 (2005): 159-161. Print.
Peckham, Irvin, Linda Bergmann, William Condon, Susanmarie Harrington, and Keith Rhodes. “The Outcomes Project: The Insiders’ History.” In The Outcomes Project: Debate and Consensus after the Outcomes Statement. Eds. Susanmarie Harrington, Keith Rhodes, Ruth Fisher, and Rita Malenczyk. Logan, Utah: Utah State UP, 2005: 8-18. Print.
Peckham, Irvin, Sherry Lee Linkon, and Benjamin G. Lanier-Nabors. “Struggling with Class in English Studies,” Introduction to special issue of College English, Peckham, Linkon, and Lanier-Nabors, Guest Editors. 67 (2004): 149-153. Print.
Peckham, Irvin. “Freirean Codifications: Walls and Windows.” Pedagogy. 3.2 (2003): 227-244. Print.
Peckham, Irvin. “An Idealized Outcomes-based First-year Writing Program.” In Strategies for Teaching First-year Composition. Eds. Duane Roen, Veronica Pantoja, Lauren Yena, Susan K. Miller, Eric Waggoner. Urbana Il: National Council of Teachers of English. 2002: 69-89. Print.
Peckham, Irvin, Susanmarie Harrington, Rita Malencyzk, Keith Rhodes, and Kathleen Yancey. "WPA Outcomes Statement for First-year Composition." College English, 63(2001): 321-325 Print.
Peckham, Irvin. “The Flute.” Journal of Critical Pedagogy. 2.2 (1999). http://www.lib.wmc.edu/pub/jcp/jcp.html.
Peckham, Irvin. “Whispers from the Margin: A Class-based Interpretation of the Conflict between High School and College Writing Teachers.” In History, Reflection and Narrative: The Professionalization of Composition, 1963-1983. Ed. Debra Journet, Mary Rosner. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Company, 1999: 253-269. Print.
Peckham, Irvin. "The Yin and Yang of Genres." In Genres of Writing: Mapping the Territories of Discourse. Ed. Hans Ostrom and Wendy Bishop. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1997: 37-44. Print.
Peckham, Irvin. “Capturing the Evolution of Corporate Email: An Ethnographic Case Study.” Computers and Composition 14 (1997): 343-360. Print.
Peckham, Irvin. “If It Ain’t Broke, Why Fix It?” Computers and Composition 13 ( 1996): 327-38. Print.
Peckham, Irvin. “Their Sticks, Our Chalk.” Composition Studies/Freshman English News 24.1-2 (1996): 94-110. Print.
Peckham, Irvin. “Replaying the Grammar Game by Macro-Editing Student Texts.” Wings 4 (Spring 1996): 12-15. Print.
Peckham, Irvin. "Complicity in Class Codes." This Fine Place So Far From Home: Voices of Working Class Academics. Ed. Carolyn Law and Barney Dews. Philadelphia. Temple UP, 1995: 263-76. Print.
Peckham, Irvin. "Beyond Grades." Composition Studies/Freshman English News 21.2 (1993): 16-31. Print.
Grants and Awards
Peckham, Irvin, and Dylan Dryer. “Social Contexts of Writing Assessment: Toward an Ecological Construct of ‘the Reader.’” Received the Kenneth Bruffee Best Article in WPA Award, 2014.
Peckham, Irvin, Edward White, and Norbert Elliot. Very Like a Whale: The Assessment of Writing Programs. Received 2015 Award for Excellence in Program Assessment from the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication.
Peckham, Irvin. Going North, Thinking West: The Intersections of Social Class, Critical Thinking, and Politicized Writing Instruction. Honorable Mention for 2011 Reflections Outstanding Book Award for Civic Scholarship.
Board of Regent’s ATLAS grant for fall 2011 and spring 2012. $49,778.00.
Board of Regent’s Humanities Enhancement Grant. “Writing Teacher Training and On-line Book Development.” $40,520. Spring 2006.
Regent’s Research Grant. “ACT verses LSU: Generic or Genre-based Writing Assessment.” Two-course release for Spring 2007 semester. Fall 2005.
Brij Mohan Distinguished Professor Award. 2005
University Committee for the Advancement of Teaching. “A Writing Across the Curriculum Website.” $1,000. Spring 2000.
Nebraska Consortium for Service Learning in Higher Education Grant. “Literacy and Social Justice.” $2,200. Spring 2000.
University Committee on Research. “The Learning Situation of Workplace Writing.” $6,400. 1995.
University Committee for the Advancement of Teaching Pedagogical Grant. “Pilot Project for Placement by Portfolio Assessment.” $4,900. 1994.
