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Dana Ferris
- Professor
Office Hours: T 1-3 p.m., W 11 a.m.-noon & by appt.
Education:
- Ph.D., Applied Linguistics, University of Southern California, 1991
- M.A., Linguistics, University of Southern California, 1988
- M.A., English (emphasis in TESOL), California State University, Sacramento, 1985
- B.A., English (emphasis in Creative Writing), University of California, Davis, 1982
Biography:
Dana Ferris is Professor and Associate Director
for Lower-Division Writing in the UWP. She oversees the UWP 1 course and teaches upper-division writing courses, pedagogy courses and Ph.D. seminars on second language writing and other areas of interest. Dana is also a participating faculty member in the Graduate Group in Education, the Graduate Group in Linguistics, and the Designated Emphasis in Writing, Rhetoric, and Composition Studies.
Dana returned to UC Davis, her undergraduate alma mater, in 2008 after 18 years as Professor of English at California State University, Sacramento, where she at different times directed the graduate MA TESOL Program and the ESL writing program. Dana has been living in Davis with her family since 1991.
Dana has published many books and chapters in edited volumes. Her books include Written Corrective Feedback in Second Language Acquisition and Writing (2012, Routledge, with John Bitchener);
Teaching ESL Composition (2005, Erlbaum) and Teaching Readers of English (2009, Routledge), both with John Hedgcock; Response
to Student Writing (2003, Erlbaum); Treatment of Error in Second Language Student Writing (2011, Michigan); and Teaching College Writing to Diverse Student Populations (2009, Michigan). Teaching Readers of English won the 2009 CATESOL David E. Eskey Award.
Her research has
focused extensively on response to student writing and on written corrective feedback in second
language writing. Her work has been published in a range of journals including TESOL Quarterly, Research in the Teaching of English, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Journal of Second Language Writing, Across the Disciplines, Writing and Pedagogy, TESOL Journal, and CATESOL Journal. One of her articles won the Best Article of the Year in the Journal of Second Language Writing (1997) and another (2001) was Honorable Mention.
Dana is the Teaching Issues Editor of the TESOL Quarterly and serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Second Language Writing, Language Teaching Research, and New Zealand Studies in Applied Linguistics. She has served
on the Board of Directors of CATESOL (California Teachers of English to Speakers of Other
Languages) and the TESOL Nominating Committee. She is also a member of the CCCC Committee on Second Language Writing.
UWP lecturers present papers at popular culture conference in Boston