FACULTY

Rhetoric and Composition

Bill Bolin, Associate Professor of English (PhD, Texas Christian University)

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Shannon Carter, Associate Professor of English (PhD, Texas Woman's University)

Specialization: multiple literacies, writing centers, basic writing, prison literacy, conservative rhetoric

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The Way Literacy Lives: Rhetorical Dexterity and Basic Writing Instruction. State University of New York Press, March 2008.

"Living Inside the Bible (Belt)." College English. July 2007.

"Redefining Literacy as a Social Practice." Journal of Basic Writing. Fall 2006.

"Graduate Courses in Basic Writing Instruction: A Review and Five Recommendations." BWe: Basic Writing e-Journal. Spring 2007.

Related Service: Vice Present, North Texas Writing Centers Association; Co-Editor, "First-Year Feature," Young Scholars in Writing: Undergraduate Research in Writing and Rhetoric; Reviewer, College English; Reviewer, Journal of Basic Writing; Reviewer, BWe: Basic Writing eJournal; Member, Executive Board, Conference on Basic Writing

Contact Information: Shannon_Carter@tamuc.edu; http://faculty.tamuc.edu/scarter/archive/; 903-886-5492

Donna Dunbar-Odom, Professor of English (PhD, University of Pittsburgh)

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Richard Fulkerson, Professor of English (PhD, Ohio State University)

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Linguistics

Robert Baumgardner, Professor of English (PhD, ??)

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Jon Jonz, Professor of English (PhD, ??)

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Salvatore Attardo, Professor of English and Chair of the Department of Literature and Languages, (PhD, ??)

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Stylistics, Fan Studies

Robin Reid, Professor of English (PhD, University of Washington)

Specialization: Creative Writing, Critical Theory, Fan Studies, Queer Theories, Emergent Literatures

Recent Publications:

"Breaking of the Fellowship:  Competing Discourses of Archives and Canons in The Lord of the Rings Internet Fandom" in How We Became Middle Earth, edited by Dr. Adam Lam and Nataliya Oryshchuk.  Walking Tree Press (Europe).  Expected publication:  2007. 

"Cunning Linguists:  The Bisexual Erotics of Worlds/Silence/Flesh," with Eden Lackner and Barbara Lynn Lucas.  Published in:  Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet edited by Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse.  McFarland Press, 2006. 

"Momutes":  Momentary Utopias in Tepper's Trilogies.  The Utopian Fantastic:  Selected Essays from the Twentieth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts.   Edited by Martha Bartter.  Praeger, 2004.  101-108.

Grants:   "From Beowulf to Postmodernism: J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings." National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute (http://www.tamuc.edu/Tolkien/ ) Co-Directed Summer Institute on Tolkien with Dr. Judy Ann Ford http://www.tamuc.edu/history/Faculty.htm in 2004.

Current Projects: Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy: An Encyclopedia (Greenwood Press); Queering the Fantastic (co-editing with Dr. Jes Battis); Wanton Gods: Darker Than Blood (novel)

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GRADUATES (RECENT)

Lori Rios, Assistant Professor of English at Texas Woman's University (PhD, Texas A&M-Commerce, 2005)

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Tonya Scott, Assistant Professor of English at Prairie View A&M (PhD, Texas A&M-Commerce, 2005)

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Hsueh Shih, Assistant Professor of ? at ? (PhD, Texas A&M-Commerce, 2006)

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Paullett Golden, Assistant Professor of English, Harris County Community College (PhD, Texas A&M-Commerce, 2005)

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