Senior Lecturer and Director of First-Year Writing
Year Started at JMU: 2012
derisedr@jmu.edu
Contact Info
Education
M.F.A., Creative Writing, UNC-Wilmington, 2007
B.A., Psychology, Minor in English; University of Virginia, 2002
Professional Focuses
first-year writing, information literacy, teaching for transfer, food/body studies
Danielle’s current research focuses on how writing instruction and programs can adapt to meet the challenges of generative AI.
Publications
Schick, K., DeRise, D., Prendergast, C., Varner, J., & Hickman, M. (2026). Making assessment useful, or: How we learned to stop worrying and love assessing rhetorical literacy. Composition Studies, 54(1). https://compstudiesjournal.com/spring-2026-54-1/
DeRise, D. (2025). Back to basics: What if we can un-ring the bell (at least in first-year writing?). Forum: Issues about Part-Time and Full-time Contingent Faculty, 28(1). https://publicationsncte.org/content/journals/10.58680/forum202577102
DeRise, D. (2024). Will I even teach writing anymore? An examination of first-year writing faculty’s responsibility to teach about or with ChatGPT. International Journal on Responsibility, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.62365/2576-0955.1108
DeRise, D. (2023). Everything’s biased: A guide to determining when bias matters. Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, 5, 140–151. https://writingspaces.org/everythings-biased-a-guide-to-determining-when-bias-matters/
Grossman, S., & DeRise, D. (2023). Using the past to inform the future: An interdisciplinary collaboration to address undergraduate pandemic concerns. Currents in Teaching and Learning, 14(2), 49–61. https://webcdn.worcester.edu/currents-in-teaching-and-learning/wp-content/uploads/sites/65/2023/01/Currents-14-02-Grossman-DeRise-Interdisciplinary-Collaboration-to-Address-Undergraduate-Pandemic-Concerns.pdf
DeRise, D. (2020). Fifty shades of bias. Information Literacy Group. https://infolit.org.uk/fifty-shades-of-bias/.
DeRise, D. (2016). Nick Cave predicts the end of western civilization. PopMatters, 10 http://www.popmatters.com/feature/nick-cave-predicts-the-end-of-western-civilization/.
DeRise, D. (2014). Don't ban student emails. Inside Higher Ed. https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2014/09/09/essay-urges-professors-not-ban-student-emails
