RHETORIC - Key Persons
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- Graduate Programs Coordinator
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- Director of First - Year Writing
- Director of First Year Writing / Interim Chair
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- Associate Professor Emerita
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- Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies
- Senior Teaching Specialist / Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies
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- Executive Office & Administrative Specialist
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- Coordinator, Advanced Writing
- Senior Lecturer / Coordinator, Advanced Writing
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- Professor
- Professor Emeritus
Donald Ross (Professor) (Ph.D., English, University of Michigan) has served as director of composition and co-chair of the Task Force on Writing. He is currently working on how to relate what we know about the writing process to the processes of reading and research.
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- Professor of Writing Studies
Dr. Ann Hill Duin is Professor of Writing Studies and Graduate-Professional Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Minnesota where her research and teaching focus on the impact of emerging technologies on international and technical communication, digital literacy, and writing futures. In 2021 she received both the 2021 Ronald S. Blicq Award for Distinction in Technical Communication from the IEEE Professional Communication Society and the 2021 J. R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Society for Technical Communication. She's published in Computers and Composition, Communication Design Quarterly, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Technical Communication Quarterly, edited collections, the 2021 book Writing Futures: Collaborative, Algorithmic, Autonomous (Springer), and her upcoming book, Augmentation Technologies and Artificial Intelligence in Technical Communication: Designing Ethical Futures (Routledge).
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- Co - Director, Center for Writing / Co - Director, Minnesota Writing Project
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- Writing Program Administration, First - Year Writing Pedagogy, Writing across the Curriculum / Writing in the Disciplines, Program Assessment
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- Certificate Advisor
- Teaching Specialist / MS / Certificate Program Advisor
John Logie is best known for "Peers, Pirates, and Persuasion," a book on the role of rhetoric in the debates over peer-to-peer technologies (e.g. Napster, Grokster). He writes on the Internet, visual rhetoric, remix cultures, copyright, and the conflicts that arise with changes in communicative technologies. His next project is titled "Writing in the Cloud" and examines the material and conceptual shifts we are experiencing as writing moves farther and farther away from the composer.
Joseph Moses, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer of writing studies at the University of Minnesota. His current research focuses on measuring the effectiveness of instructional designs for writing-to-learn in teams.
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- Co - Director, Center for Writing
Kim Strain (Senior Lecturer) (M.A., TESOL, Southern IL University, Carbondale) is a multilingual writer specialists. She teaches first year, technical and professional, and graduate writing as well as consults in the Student Writing Center to students across the curriculum.
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- Associate Director of First - Year Writing
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- Director, Minnesota Writing Project
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- Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies
- Department Chair
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- Senior Teaching Specialist
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- Professor
- Professor Emerita
Mary Lay Schuster (Professor) (Ph.D., English, University of New Mexico) studies the intersection of the law, science, and rhetoric. In the past, she has focused on direct-entry midwives and their attempts to become licensed professionals. Her current project involves interviewing judges to determine how they weigh victim impact statements in sentencing hearings involving domestic violence/sexual assault cases. She is also interviewing advocates who work with victims to determine how they advise victims and observing judges' verbal and nonverbal responses during sentencing when a victim offers a statement. Dr. Schuster is a Faculty Fellow in the Law School and has served also as a Deputy Director in the Office for Conflict Resolution.
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- Senior Teaching Specialist
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- Senior Teaching Specialist
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- Director of Graduate Studies ( Ph.D., MA, MS, Cert )
- Director of Graduate Studies, ( Ph.D, MA, MS, and Certificate )
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- Associate Director of First - Year Writing
Dr. Graff is a past president of the American Society for the History of Rhetoric (ASHR). At the University of Minnesota, he has held an Institute for Advanced Studies Faculty Fellowship and a McKnight Summer Research Fellowship, and has been a visiting senior associate member of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece.
Dr. Graff is an Associate Professor in the Department of Writing Studies and director of the interdisciplinary graduate minor in Literacy & Rhetorical Studies. He teaches courses and graduate seminars in Classical and Modern Rhetoric, Communication Theory, and Rhetorical Stylistics. He is a recipient of the College of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences' (now CFANS) Distinguished Teaching Award.
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- Director of Undergraduate Studies
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- Senior Lecturer / Interim Director - Center