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After my undergraduate work at the University of Sheffield in English and Drama, I moved to America and completed my Ph.D. at Arizona State University on the public and political poetry of Seamus Heaney. Since that time, my focus has shifted from literature to Rhetoric and Composition. I worked for several years in the National Science Foundation’s integrated program for first-year engineering students at Arizona State University (FIPE) and published a number of papers related to that work on integrated curricula, active and cooperative learning, curricula assessment, and various ways of integrating English with Engineering. My work with the FIPE program allowed me to collaborate with faculty from Engineering, Physics, Math, and Chemistry both here at ASU and at other universities, giving me greater insight into disciplines other than English and effective learning communities. In addition to teaching First-Year Writing, I also enjoy teaching Writing About Literature for non majors which ties into my own interest in contemporary British fiction. As a teacher, I am firmly committed to developing effective pedagogies in the classroom, and I work closely with new and experienced Teaching Assistants in my roles as TA trainer and mentor for the Writing Programs to help them develop their own teaching skills. My areas of research focus on First-Year Writing, and recently I have examined the impact of reduced class size on teachers and students here at ASU. That interest in First-Year writing has also led me to review a number of textbooks. Currently I am working on consumerism and how that impacts both students and teachers at the university. |
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