Dr. Larry Burton, Professor and Program Director

Office Location:
Harrison 2283
(540) 568-2334
burtonlw@jmu.edu


aley

Dr. Shelley Aley, Associate Professor and Internship Coordinator

Office Location:
Harrison 1119
(540) 568-6162
aleysb@jmu.edu

Research Interests:
Histories of rhetoric, 18th- and 19th-century Scottish rhetoric, computers and writing in the FYC course, teaching writing online, tech. and rhetoric, rhetoric of science, writing in the public sphere

allen

Ms. Cindy Allen, Instructor

Office Location:
Harrison 2264
(540) 568-3763
allen2cj@jmu.edu

Research Interests:
Editing; document design; communication ethics; adult/non-traditional learners; service learning/real world applications

bednar

Dr. Lucy Bednar, Assistant Professor

Office Location:
Harrison 2263
(540) 568-8160
bednarla@jmu.edu

Research Interests:
How technology impacts cultures worldwide, intercultural technical communication, technology mediated fiction

 

Ms. Heather Comfort, Assistant Professor

Office Location:
Harrison 1118
(540) 568-2292
comforhe@jmu.edu

Research Interests:
Poetry writing, contemporary poetry, rhetorical analysis, writing across the disciplines, and visual rhetoric in popular culture

jared

Mr. Jared Featherstone, Assistant Professor

Office Location:
Wilson 413
(540) 568-1759
feathejj@jmu.edu

Research Interests:
Fiction, multi-media narrative, creative nonfiction, online learning, instructional technology, Writing Across the Curriculum, and writing center theory

susan

Dr. Susan Ghiaciuc, Assistant Professor

Office Location:
Harrison 2271
(540) 568-1613
ghiacisx@jmu.edu

Research Interests:
Literacy studies, ESL writers, participatory action research, rural rhetorics, social justice

elisabeth

Dr. Elisabeth Gumnior, Associate Professor

Office Location:
Harrison 1117
(540) 568-6133
gumnioec@jmu.edu


 

Dr. Mark Hawthorne, Professor

Office Location:
Harrison 2256
(540) 568-6655
hawthomd@jmu.edu

Research Interests:
Web design, electronic graphics, publication management, and document design

eleanor

Ms. Eleanor Henderson, Assistant Professor

Office Location:
Harrison 1128
(540) 568-7981
henderea@jmu.edu

Research Interests:
Narrative argument, popular writing, the short story cycle, the workshop

kevin

Mr. Kevin Jefferson, Instructor

Office Location:
Harrison 2293
(540) 568-3579
jefferkx@jmu.edu

Research Interests:
Rhetoric, FYC, 19th- and 20th-century British and American literature

 

Dr. Billie Jones, Assistant Professor

Office Location:
Harrison 2295
(540) 568-2512
jonesbj@jmu.edu

Research Interests: Visual rhetoric, rhetoric of memorials, semiotics, technologies and writing, writing pedagogy, FYC

kate

Dr. Kate Kessler, Associate Professor

Office Location:
Harrison 2265
(540) 568-7943
kesslekj@jmu.edu

Research Interests:
Truth, justice, atonement, forgiveness

michaelk

Dr. Michael J. Klein, Assistant Professor

Office Location:
Harrison 2260
(540) 568-8018
kleinmj@jmu.edu

Research Interests:
Rhetoric of science; visual rhetoric; technology and culture; film studies

erin

Ms. Erin Lambert, Assistant Professor

Office Location:
Harrison 2262
(540) 568-3301
lambe2ek@jmu.edu

Research Interests:
Contemporary poetry; Irish literature; surrealism and magical realism; influences of visual arts in/on writing; writing centers; critical reading/thinking

scott

Dr. S. Scott Lunsford, Assistant Professor

Office Location:
Harrison 2292
(540) 568-4925
lunsfoss@jmu.edu

Research Interests:
Rhetoric and writing studies; disciplinarity of the field; genre theory; Foucault

 

Ms. Cynthia Martin, Lecturer and Director of Composition

Office Location:
Harrison 2286
(540) 568-7817
marti2cs@jmu.edu

Research Interests:
Researched argument, teacher education, assessment

karen

Ms. Karen McDonnell, Instructor

Office Location:
Harrison 2294
(540) 568-7941
mcdonnkm@jmu.edu

Research Interests:
style, usage and mechanics, idiom, 19th-century British female novelists, gender and rhetoric, popular culture

michaelm

Dr. Michael Moghtader, Associate Professor

Office Location:
Harrison 1113
(540) 568-5634
moghtamx@jmu.edu

Research Interests:
First-year composition, critical pedagogy,
English studies history and reform, graduate education

sarah

Ms. Sarah H. O'Connor, Associate Professor

Office Location:
Harrison 2272
(540) 568-6242
oconnosh@jmu.edu

Research Interests:
Service learning, creative nonfiction, ESL, literature in the composition classroom, autobiography

Pass

Dr. Elizabeth Pass, Associate Professor and Advisor to the TSC Minor

Office Location:
Harrison 2258
(540) 568-8139
passer@jmu.edu

Research Interests:
The study and production of the online and webbed environments, primarily to prepare students for cutting-edge industries in technical communication.


 

Dr. Alice Philbin, Professor

Office Location:
Harrison 2252
(540) 568-8138
philbiai@jmu.edu

Research Interests:
Technical communication program leadership; academic and business partnerships; technical, governmental, and managerial communication; technical communication editing, electronic editing, and work place communication

kurt

Dr. Kurt Schick, Associate Professor and
Interim Director, Writing Resource Center

Office Location:
Wilson 418
(540) 568-6203
schickke@jmu.edu

Research Interests:
Pedagogy, classical and modern rhetoric, propaganda, civic discourse, stylistics, evaluation, research methodology

laura

Ms. Laura Schubert, Instructor

Office Location:
Harrison 1125
(540) 568-2335
schubelk@jmu.edu

Research Interests:
Writing center pedagogy, critical reading, service learning, narratology, Isabel Allende


 

Mr. Michael Smith, Assistant Professor

Office Location:
Harrison 1114
(540) 568-3146 and (540) 958-3345
smithmx@jmu.edu


julia

Dr. Julia Sochacki, Assistant Professor

Office Location:
Harrison 2273
(540) 568-7360
socha2sj@jmu.edu

Research Interests:
Social justice education, technology and culture, environmental ethics

mark

Dr. Mark E. Thomas, Assistant Professor and
Mentor, FYI Writing Centor

Office Location:
Harrison 2270
(540) 568-3584
thomasme@jmu.edu

Research Interests:
Poetry, 19th-century British literature, writing centers, tutoring, peer tutoring, plagiarism, intellectual property

ken

Dr. Ken Wright, Associate Professor

Office Location:
Maury 209
(540) 568-4379
wrigh2kr@jmu.edu

Research Interests:
Kenneth Burke and piety

Dr. Pavel Zemliansky, Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator

Office Location:
Harrison 2285
(540)-568-7056
zemliapx@jmu.edu

Research Interests:
Research writing pedagogy, computers and writing, visual rhetoric and multimedia writing, alternative venues for textbook and academic publications

jim

Dr. Jim Zimmerman, Associate Professor

Office Location:
Harrison 1115
(540) 568-7087
zimmerjr@jmu.edu

Research Interests:
Rhetorical practice in 21st century American culture; WAC; rhetoric of contemporary art; freshman composition theory and practice; fiction, film, and poetry; videotape as a learning tool for instructors

traci

Dr. Traci Zimmerman (Pipkins), Associate Professor and Advisor to the Writing and Retoric Minor

Office Location:
Harrison 1111
(540) 568-3978
zimmerta@jmu.edu

Research Interests:
Cultural rhetoric, literac(ies), assessment, authorship, film, technology and the human condition, 17th-century literature/literacies, print rev., history of the book, semiotics, lang. theory