Faculty Administrators

Director and Associate Directors

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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
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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
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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.
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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