Faculty

Professors (Academic Senate Faculty)
	Name / Email / Office	Research Areas
	Andersen, Rebekka Associate Professor randersen@ucdavis.edu Associate Director, Writing in the Professions / Faculty Advisor, Professional Writing Minor 365 Voorhies	Technical communication, focusing on content management and academia-industry partnerships; professional writing research and pedagogy; multimodal literacies; research-practice/theory-practice connections
	Ching, Kory Lawson Associate Professor kching@ucdavis.edu Associate Director, Online Writing Instruction Voorhies 385	writing technologies, digital literacies, composition pedagogy, teacher preparation, qualitative research methods, socio-cultural theories of literacy and learning
	Ferris, Dana Professor drferris@ucdavis.edu 357 Voorhies OR Zoom	second language literacy, teacher preparation, responding to student writing
	Marx, John jmarx@ucdavis.edu Interim Director of the University Writing Program
	Melzer, Dan Professor dlmelzer@ucdavis.edu Associate Director, First-Year Composition / Personnel Committee 377 Voorhies	writing across the curriculum, writing program administration, response and assessment
	Serviss, Trish Associate Professor pcserviss@ucdavis.edu Associate Director, Entry-Level Writing 358 Voorhies	developmental writing, academic source use, writing placement & assessment, feminist rhetorical practices, writing program design and administration, teacher preparation, longitudinal literacy development (1st Gen STEM majors), hybrid research methods.
	Vidal Chiesa, Laura lvidalch@ucdavis.edu 371 Voorhies
	Whithaus, Carl Professor cwwhithaus@ucdavis.edu Associate Director of the University Writing Program / Chair for the DE in Writing, Rhetoric, and Composition Studies / Associate Director, Writing in the Disciplines Voorhies 117	Writing Technologies; Digital Cultures; Writers and their Writing Processes; Science Writing, including Writing in Agriculture; Writing Assessment; Professional and Technical Writing; Multimodal Composition; Critical Pedagogy; the Pacific Rim (Writing and Globalization); Writing and RPGs; Rhetorics and Poetics; Histories of Books and Publishing

Lecturers (Academic Federation Faculty)
	Name / Email / Office	Research Areas
	Abramsky, Sasha Continuing Lecturer sabramsky@ucdavis.edu 350 Voorhies	I specialize in political reporting and social justice journalism, with an emphasis on reporting on poverty, immigration, the criminal justice system. My book The American Way of Poverty was listed as one of the New York Times' 100 Notable Books of the Year, establishing me as a national expert on poverty and on ways of giving voice to those living in poverty. I also write extensively on both documented and undocumented immigration. I am a political correspondent and columnist for the Nation, and am now their west coast correspondent; I have a long track-reoord of writing both about national and also state politics.
	Andersen, Ken Continuing Lecturer kenandersen@ucdavis.edu 112 Voorhies
	Arosteguy, Katie Continuing Lecturer karosteguy@ucdavis.edu WAC Consultant 114 Voorhies	writing in education; teacher preparation/education; k-12 literacy & tutor preparation; rhetorical approaches to writing in the disciplines; professional writing
	Azevedo, Jillian Continuing Lecturer jazevedo@ucdavis.edu Editor, Prized Writing 369 Voorhies	Early Modern History; Women’s History; Writing in History; Writing in Social Justice; Higher Education in Prison
	Beal, Jane Lecturer jbeal@ucdavis.edu
	Bender, Melissa Continuing Lecturer mmbender@ucdavis.edu 311 Voorhies	Writing pedagogy with special interest in rhetorical approaches to disciplinary composition and source work; rhetoric of health and medicine; visual and material rhetoric; the rhetoric of public history; U.S. memoir and life writing.
	Bright, Alison Continuing Lecturer asbright@ucdavis.edu WAC Consultant 309 Voorhies	writing program administration; writing across the curriculum; writing centers; tutor preparation; teacher identity; the professional development of teacher/writers
	Carpenter, Russ Lecturer carpenter@ucdavis.edu WAC Consultant	Science communication, scientific posters, STEM teaching, writing center pedagogy, neuroscience, animal behavior, behavioral neuroscience, stress, learning and memory
	Caslin, Kate Continuing Lecturer kmcaslin@ucdavis.edu 368 Voorhies	Second Language Writing, Second Language Acquisition
	Chisum, Pamela pcchisum@ucdavis.edu	Indigenous and digital rhetoric, Composition, ELL
	Collins, Daina Continuing Lecturer dlcollins@ucdavis.edu Personnel Committee Voorhies 362
	Crosby, Kelly Continuing Lecturer kacrosby@ucdavis.edu Zoom	Second language writing, writing assessment, curriculum design, literacy pedagogy
	Davis, Cindy Lecturer cindavis@ucdavis.edu Voorhies 367
	de Genova, Lindsey Lecturer ldegenova@ucdavis.edu Shields 87C-18	Community Building in FYC, Queer Theory, Feminist Rhetoric
	Demchuk, Dana Lecturer bdemchuk@ucdavis.edu Assistant Director, English for Multilingual Students Voorhies 372
	Dragona, Aliki Continuing Lecturer apdragona@ucdavis.edu 375 Voorhies
	Elias, Julian Continuing Lecturer jelias@ucdavis.edu	academic literacy, multilingual writing, writing across the curriculum, second language acquisition
	Evans, Katherine ktevans@ucdavis.edu Shields 87C
	Faye, Sarah Continuing Lecturer sefaye@ucdavis.edu Voorhies 360	Contract grading and assessment, disability studies, the rhetoric of Health and Medicine, the history of Technical Communication, student-centered pedagogy.
	Geier, Ted tegeier@ucdavis.edu	Animals, Environment, Film, Literature, Interdisciplinary Humanities, Cultural History, Critical Theory & Philosophy, Business Culture & Consumerism, Legal Studies, Disney
	Gonzalez-Gomez, Paulina Lecturer plgonzalezgomez@ucdavis.edu Shields Library 87C
	Goodman-Bide, Amy Lecturer agoodmanbide@ucdavis.edu Shields 87C	science writing, healthcare communication, writing across the curriculum, multilingual writing, language and social interaction
	Gubala, Carolyn Lecturer cmgubala@ucdavis.edu Assistant Director of Online Writing Instruction Shields Library, Room 87C	Technical communication, including editing and data visualizations; field-wide programmatic and pedagogical studies.
	Hatzakos, Catherine Lecturer cahatzakos@ucdavis.edu Associate Director, English for Multilingual Students Voorhies 370/Zoom
	Hemstrom, Cassie Continuing Lecturer chemstrom@ucdavis.edu Program Assessment Coordinator Voorhies 381	Community-based writing, rhetorical approaches to genre and audience, information literacy and writing pedagogy, identity theory and critical race theory.
	Herrera, Maria Lecturer mcherreraas@ucdavis.edu
	Herring, Scott Continuing Lecturer srherring@ucdavis.edu 356 Voorhies
	Horton, Joseph Continuing Lecturer jbhorton@ucdavis.edu
	I-Tremblay, Erika Lecturer eitremblay@ucdavis.edu First-Year Writing Placement Coordinator Voorhies 366	lifespan development of writing, second language writing, ethnography
	Jin, Sophia Continuing Lecturer sojin@ucdavis.edu	Language as a political act in refugee communities, Language imperialism, Multilingualism, Second Language Acquisition
	Johnston, Brendan bmjohnston@ucdavis.edu Shields 87C-1	Writing Studies and Pedagogy; Science and Technology Studies; Materialism (historical and scientific); Decolonial Studies; Film and Media Studies; Modernism and Poetics; Transnational American Literature; Literature and the Environment; Diversity in Higher Education (curriculum and access).
	Jones, Andy Continuing Lecturer aojones@ucdavis.edu 353 Voorhies	Computers and composition, journalism, new and digital media, writing in education, creativity, writing motivation, independent publishing.
	Klotz, Lisa Continuing Lecturer lklotz@ucdavis.edu	Legal Reasoning and Writing; Early Modern English Law and Literature
	Kurzer, Kendon Lecturer kckurzer@ucdavis.edu Associate Director, Writing Across the Curriculum--Undergraduate / Entry Level Writing Peer Educators (UWP 197T) Voorhies 350	Writing Across the Curriculum and multilingual writing, language/grammar support, multilingual writers in writing program administration contexts Select Research Publications: (2022). Accuracy gains from unfocused feedback: Dynamic Written Corrective Feedback as meaningful pedagogy. Journal of Language and Education. (2021). More than just grammar deficiencies: Moving faculty in the disciplines toward a difference-as-resource pedagogical paradigm. In E. Lee, N. Fahim, J. Johnson, and B. R. Schreiber (Eds.), Building a more linguistically just campus: Theory, pedagogy, and advocacy. (2018). Student perceptions of dynamic written corrective feedback in developmental multilingual writing classes. Journal of Response to Writing. (2018). Dynamic written corrective feedback in developmental ESL writing classes. TESOL Quarterly. Ferris, D. R., Evans, K., & Kurzer, K. (2017). Placement of multilingual writers: Is there a role for directed self-placement? Assessing Writing.
	Lane, Janet Continuing Lecturer jrlane@ucdavis.edu 87(A) Shields	Materials Development in Writing for Multilingual Students Responding to Writing of Multilingual Students Assessment and Training of International Teaching Assistants
	Lester, Shannah Continuing Lecturer srlester@ucdavis.edu Voorhies 383	Multimodal Feedback and its Implications with Multilingual Writers; Second Language Curriculum Design, Professional Writing and Multimodal Composition; Culture, Writing, and Rhetorical Implications; Professional Writing and Multicultural Communication ; Rhetoric of Social Media; Teaching Writing Online, Hybrid and Asynchronous Modalities; Visual Rhetoric in Digital Writing Environments
	Lore, Elisabeth Continuing Lecturer emlore@ucdavis.edu Voorhies 364 an	French, Caribbean, Chicana/o, Multilingual Literature, and Mediating Literature, particularly in relation to immigration and identity construction.
	MacArthur, Marit Lecturer mjmacarthur@ucdavis.edu Associate Director for Writing Across the Curriculum--Grad	Digital voice studies, Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC), AI and writing, first-generation support, collaborative & interdisciplinary research and writing, open-source software development, performance studies, cultural analytics, 20th century poetry and the Anglo-American poetic tradition
	Magagnini, Stephen Continuing Lecturer stmagagnini@ucdavis.edu Voorhies 367
	Magnin, Jeff Emeritus Lecturer jamagnin@ucdavis.edu
	Masiel, David Continuing Lecturer drmasiel@ucdavis.edu 390 Voorhies
	McCollom, Elaine Continuing Lecturer mccollom@ucdavis.edu Voorhies 368
	McDonnell, Sean Continuing Lecturer sjmcdonnell@ucdavis.edu 392 Voorhies
	Meisenheimer, Donald Continuing Lecturer dkmeisenheimer@ucdavis.edu 359 Voorhies
	Michaels, Ann Lecturer amichaels@ucdavis.edu
	Miller, Greg Continuing Lecturer glmiller@ucdavis.edu Voorhies 363	Composition Studies, Interdisciplinary Writing, Creative Writing, Creative Non-Fiction, Journalism, Literary Reviews, Film Studies, Critical Theory, Literature
	Milton, Heather Continuing Lecturer hnmilton@ucdavis.edu 379 Voorhies
	Miniaci, Miles Continuing Lecturer mbminiaci@ucdavis.edu Shields Lower L
	Mitchell, Rebecca Continuing Lecturer rlmitchell@ucdavis.edu
	Moore, Alison Lecturer armoore@ucdavis.edu Shields 87C	rhetoric and composition; antiracist writing pedagogies; intersectional feminist theory and practice; diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) & social justice; critical literacies; & writing across the curriculum
	Morales, Sylvia Continuing Lecturer sylmorales@ucdavis.edu Voorhies 360	Composition and Rhetoric, Pedagogy, Technical & Professional Communication, Genre Analysis, Contract Grading, Learning Transfer
	Morris, Angela Lecturer almorris@ucdavis.edu
	Niu, Catherine Lecturer cniu@ucdavis.edu Shields Library 87C
	Oliver, Matt Continuing Lecturer mjoliver@ucdavis.edu Voorhies 353
	Padda, Randeep Continuing Lecturer rkpadda@ucdavis.edu Zoom
	Pearsall, Beth Lecturer nepearsall@ucdavis.edu Zoom
	Pokharel, Ramesh Lecturer rkpokharel@ucdavis.edu SHLDS 87C-2	Rhetorical Situation, Second Language Writing, TESOL
	Proctor, Mandy Lecturer mproctor@ucdavis.edu Assistant Director, Entry-Level Writing 376 Voorhies
	Quinn, DJ Lecturer djquinn@ucdavis.edu 201 Voorhees
	Rabie, Brigitte Lecturer brabie@ucdavis.edu Shields 87C
	Ramirez, Fairuze Ahmed Lecturer farramirez@ucdavis.edu
	Rinard, Brenda Continuing Lecturer bjrinard@ucdavis.edu Personnel Committee
	Rodger, Katie Continuing Lecturer karodger@ucdavis.edu Internship Coordinator (UWP 92/192) 113 Voorhies	Science communication; professional science writing; environmental science writing; science journalism
	Ross, Andrea Lecturer amross@ucdavis.edu Personnel Committee Voorhies 361
	Schmidli, Danielle Continuing Lecturer dmschmidli@ucdavis.edu Voorhies 383	second language writing; peer and teacher feedback; international graduate writing, reading, and oral skills; curriculum development; building students' transferable skills; program administration;
	Sententia, Wrye Continuing Lecturer sotoole@ucdavis.edu 373 Voorhies
	Sewell, William Continuing Lecturer wjsewell@ucdavis.edu Associate Director, Advanced Composition / WOE Editor (UWP 280) Voorhies 369	Technical & professional communication. Rhetoric of Science. Classical, material, visual, and sensory rhetorics. Native-American & indigenous rhetorics. Computers and technology. Graphic design. UX & Usability. Online instruction. Instructional Design. Narrative. Creative Nonfiction. Prose style.
	Sperber, Lisa Continuing Lecturer ldsperber@ucdavis.edu Personnel Committee 309 Voorhies	Teaching and research interests include Writing in Health Sciences and Writing in Education, Writing Across the Curriculum, labor-based contract grading, learning transfer, graduate writing and writing with AI.
	Stark, Agnes Continuing Lecturer agnstark@ucdavis.edu UDCE Coordinator Voorhies 115	Teaching Areas: Writing in the Health Professions; Advanced Composition; English for Multilingual Writers // Research Areas: Special topics in Social Justice & Health; Narrative Medicine; Special Topics in Mental Health; Environmental Justice & Equity; Ethics in Science; Linguistics for TESOL // Personal Writing Interests: Essayist; Poet; Writer of Short Stories. // Personal Reading Interests: Contemporary Latin American Literature by Women Writers // Bilingual English & Spanish
	Strandjord, Erika Lecturer ecstrandjord@ucdavis.edu Voorhies 376	I research community-building rhetoric through the lenses of feminist, cultural, and craft rhetorics.
	Wallis, Wally cjwallis@ucdavis.edu 285 Voorhies	Gender and sexuality in early modern literature and culture
	Walsh, Theresa Continuing Lecturer tnwalsh@ucdavis.edu Zoom	Intersectional Feminism, Feminist Phenomenology, Queer Phenomenology, Embodiment, Affect, Sensory Rhetoric, Comedy Studies, Humor Studies, Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, Narrative Medicine, Rhetoric of Science, Ancient Rhetoric, Teaching Writing in Online, Hybrid, and Hyflex Modalities, Student Self Efficacy, Journaling, Cultural Humility, Safety, and Structural Competence in Healthcare Settings
	Waltonen, Karma Continuing Lecturer kjwaltonen@ucdavis.edu 355 Voorhies	Rhetoric and Composition, Margaret Atwood, Science Fiction/Fantasy, The Simpsons, Humor and Satire, Stand-Up, Narrative Medicine, Shakespeare, Drama, Popular Culture, Graphic Novels, 20th and 21st C Anglophone Literature Dr. Karma has specialized training in theatre, film, feminist theory, and anti-racist pedagogy, in addition to professional certification in online teaching.
	Whitaker, Anne Lecturer amwhit@ucdavis.edu 372 Voorhies
	Williams, Nathaniel Continuing Lecturer ntlwilliams@ucdavis.edu 363 Voorhies	Science and Technical Communication, American Literature and Culture, Science Fiction, Genre and Rhetoric

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