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- Position Title
- Director of Composition, Professor of English
- Institution or Organization
- Drew University
- URL of Writing Program
- http://www.depts.drew.edu/composition/
- URL of Homepage
- http://users.drew.edu/sjamieso/
- Rank
- Professor
- Areas of Research/Teaching/WPA Interests
Research: ideology, WAC/WID, pedagogy, faculty development, basic writing, program design, plagiarism Teaching: composition, graduate theory, creative non-fiction, travel writing, American lit, "ethnic" writers WPA-related: ideology, WAC/WID, pedagogy, faculty development, program design,
- Publications of Interest to WPAs
Coming of Age: The Advanced Undergraduate Writing Curriculum. An edited volume, with Robert Schwegler, Linda Shamoon, & Rebecca Moore Howard. A book in the Cross-Currents Series. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 2000. (Winner of the Council of Writing Program Administrators' Best Book of 2000-2001 Award)
The Bedford Guide to Teaching Writing in the Disciplines: An Instructor's Desk Reference. With Rebecca Moore Howard. Boston: Bedford Books, 1995.
"Re-examining the Theory-Practice Binary in the Work of Writing Program Administrators" with Linda Shamoon, Rebecca Moore Howard, & Robert Schwegler, in The Writing Program Administrator as Theorist: Making Knowledge Work Ed. Shirley K. Rose and Irwin Weiser. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 2002.
"Composition Readers and the Construction of Identity" in Writing in Multicultural Settings. Ed. Carol Severino & Johnnella E. Butler. New York: MLA, 1997.
"The United Colors of Multiculturalism: Rereading Composition Textbooks" in Mainstream(s) and Margins: Cultural Studies in the 90s. Ed. Michael Morgan & Susan Leggett. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996.
"Text, Context, and Teaching Literature by African American Women" in Understanding Others: Cultural and Cross-Cultural Criticism and the Teaching of Literature. Ed. Joseph Trimmer & Tilly Warnock. NCTE, 1992.
- Reassigned Time for WPA Work
The normal teaching load is 2/3 (or 3/2). I have one course release per year on the normal faculty 10 month contract (I teach 2/2)