Lisa Sperber
Lisa Sperber teaches a range of writing upper and lower division composition courses, with a specialization in Writing in Health and Writing in Education.
Ph.D. in English, University of California, Davis, 2012
M.A. in English, University of California, Davis, 2000
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College, 1994
Aaron Swartz Award for Best Web Text, Writing Commons, 2020.
Academic Federation Professional Development Award, 2019.
Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award, 2008 (UCD)
“The Adoption of Contract Grading in a University Writing Program: Navigating Disruption to Assessment Ecologies.” Sarah Faye, Erika I-Tremblay, Dan Melzer, and Lisa Sperber. Writing Program Administration Journal, Volume 46, No.2, 2023.
“Making What We Know Explicit: Perspectives from Graduate Writing Consultants on Supporting Graduate Writers.” Stacy Wittstock, Lisa Sperber, Gabi Kirk, Kristin McCarty, Karen de Sola-Smith, Jasmine Wade, Mitchell Simon and Lauren Fink. Praxis: A Writing Center Journal, Volume 19, No. 2, 2022.
“So, Your Instructor is Using Contract Grading,” Sarah Faye, D.J. Quinn, Dan Melzer, and Lisa Sperber. Writing Commons— an online encyclopedia for writers, 2019.
Teachers on the Edge: The WOE Interviews: 1989-2017. David Masiel, Lisa Sperber, John Boe and Eric Schroeder. Routledge, 2017.