Faculty

Faculty

Rebekka Andersen

  • Associate Director & Faculty Advisor, Professional Writing Minor | Associate Professor
365 Voorhies
Office Hours
By appointment Summer 2024 (in person or Zoom). Email to schedule.
Research Areas
Technical communication, focusing on the content discipline and academia-industry partnerships; professional writing research, pedagogy, and internships; multimodal literacies; research-practice/theory-practice connections

Kory Lawson Ching

  • Associate Professor
Voorhies 385
Office Hours
W 1:30-3:00; R 1:30-3:00; by Zoom appointment at https://calendly.com/koryching/meet
Research Areas
writing technologies, digital literacies, composition pedagogy, teacher preparation, qualitative research methods, socio-cultural theories of literacy and learning

Dana Ferris

  • Professor
357 Voorhies
Office Hours
T 10 a.m.-2 p.m. (UWP 7V students only, Zoom)
other times by appointment (please email)
Research Areas
Second language literacy, teacher preparation, responding to student writing

Dan Melzer

  • Associate Director, First-Year Composition | Professor
377 Voorhies
Office Hours
T 1:00-3:00, F 11:00-12:00 by appt. on Zoom and other days by appt. on Zoom
Research Areas
writing across the curriculum, writing program administration, response and assessment

Trish Serviss

  • Director of Entry-Level Writing and Writing Placement System | Associate Professor
358 Voorhies
Office Hours
Fall 2024: Tuesdays, 2:30-4pm and by appointment
Research Areas
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.

Carl Whithaus

  • Director of the University Writing Program | Chair for the DE in Writing, Rhetoric, and Composition Studies | Professor
Voorhies 157
Office Hours
T 2:00-3:00, R 11:00-12:00 & by appt.
Research Areas
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