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Nancy Allen (Ph.D., Purdue University, 1991). Allen retired as a professor of Written Communication in 2011. She taught courses in professional communication, rhetoric, and advanced composition. Her research interests include visual rhetoric, and her edited volume on that topic, Working with Words and Images, is part of the New Studies in Computers and Composition series.
Phillip Arrington (Ph.D., University of Louisville, 1984). Arrington teaches in the areas of literature, composition, and the teaching of writing. He has published extensively in the area of composition and the teaching of writing.
Steven T. Benninghoff (Ph. D., Purdue University, 2002). Benninghoff teaches courses in technical communication, and he maintains a web site at http://benninghoff.emich.edu/.
Ann Blakeslee (Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 1992). Blakeslee joined the EMU faculty in 1996 and is currently the director of the EMU Writing Across the Curriculum program and EMU's University Writing Center. Blakeslee teaches courses in technical writing and editing and in research. Her scholarship focuses on writing in technical and scientific disciplines and on concerns with audience. She has numerous articles in journals and edited collections and is currently finishing a co-authored textbook with Cathy Fleischer on qualitative research.
Cheryl Cassidy (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1988). Cassidy joined the EMU faculty in 1990 and is a professor in the English Department. She teaches undergraduate composition classes and a graduate course in Women’s Rhetoric. Cassidy’s research focuses on nineteenth-century British and American prose, examining the formation of collective identities based upon commonly-held social and religious views. Her recent research examines the ‘new woman’ in nineteenth-century female missionary magazines.
John Dunn (Ph.D., Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2007). Dunn joined the EMU faculty in 2007 and is the associate director of the first year writing program.
Steven D. Krause (Ph.D, Bowling Green State University, 1996). Krause joined the EMU faculty in 1998. Most of his scholarship and teaching explores the connections between technology and writing. Some of his recent writings have appeared in Kairos, Computers and Composition, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He maintains a website at http://www.stevendkrause.com
Bernard Miller (Ph.D., Purdue University, 1987). Miller joined the faculty in 1987, and he teachers courses in rhetorical theory and literature.
Derek Mueller (PhD, Syracuse University, 2009). Mueller joined the faculty in 2009 and he teaches courses concerned with rhetoric, composition, and technology. His research inquires into the forms of knowledge available via distant reading methods (Moretti), through which computational processes, data-mining, and visual models augment conventional approaches to “reading.” Mueller blogs at http://www.earthwidemoth.com/mt/.
William Douglas Baker (Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2001). Doug Baker is an associate professor in the English Education program, and he teaches courses in the Written Communication program.
Cathy Fleischer (Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1990). Fleischer is a professor in the English department where she is Coordinator of the English Education program and teaches courses in both English education and Written Communication. She writes and presents extensively on issues of literacy education–in particular about teacher research, professional development, and parent outreach.
Rebecca Bowers Sipe (Ed.D, Boston University, 1995) As Professor of English Education, Sipes is currently the director of the Honors College at EMU. She has taught at EMU and served as an Associate Director of the Eastern Michigan Writing Project for the past eight years. Her research interests focus on identifing and providing essential cognitive skills, processes, and strategies necessary for academich success, working particularly with students who struggle. Her most recent publications include They Still Can’t Spell? Understanding and Supporting Challenged Spellers in Middle and High School and a text series entitled Strategies for Writers. Currently, she is working on a book with a high school teacher that is intened to demonstrate the benefits and possibilities for workshop classes at the high school level.
William Tucker (Ph.D, Boston College, 1994) Tucker joined the EMU faculty in 1994 after teaching high school English in Massachusetts for twenty years. Since 1984 he has worked with the National Writing Project, first as a high school teacher, then as a co- director, and now as director of the Eastern Michigan Writing Project. His current research concerns the reflective writing of K-12 teachers, most recently published in the Journal of Teaching Writing.
James Pinson (Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1996) Pinson joined Eastern’s faculty in 1990 after teaching six years at the Missouri School of Journalism. He has worked on newspapers in three states, teaches in the Dow Jones Editing Internship workshops, and is co author of the books (and related workbooks) Working With Words (Bedford/St. Martin’s), The Art of Editing in the Age of Convergence (Allyn and Bacon) and the computer program “St. Martin’s Wire-Service Hotline.” His web page is http://www.jamespinson.com.
Carol Schlagheck (Ph. D, Bowling Green State University, 1997) Schlagheck is a former full-time journalist who helped to start a community weekly newspaper while she was still in high school. She then worked for The Monroe (MI) Evening News for a decade as a government reporter, feature writer and copy editor. She continues to freelance for newspapers and magazines.
Charles Simmons (JD, Georgetown University, 1983). Simmons’ articles have appeared in African American, national and international newspapers and magazines, and he has hosted a radio program in Los Angeles. He has reported news in Africa, the Middle East, Europe as well as in the United States. A former legislative assistant to U.S. Rep. John Conyers, Simmons has taught at Howard University in Washington and California State University-Los Angeles.
Christine Tracy (Ph.D., Rensselaer, 2005). Tracy joined the EMU faculty in 2005. She is an
assistant professor and teaches courses in media theory, news writing, and digital journalism. Her research interests include emergent media and technology, media ecology, and the rhetoric of journalism. She maintains a web site at www.ninthmuse.org.
Lolita Cummings Carson (MA, APR, Eastern Michigan University,1992).
Cummings Hendrix joined the EMU faculty in 1994 after working as a public relations professional for nearly 10 years. She is now a professor of public relations and continues to serve as a consultant to numerous non profit organizations and for profit corporations. Her scholarship and research focuses mainly in the areas of academic service-learning and intergenerational relationships. Cummings Hendrix is published in Teaching Public Relations and Public Relations Quarterly. Her most recent article was published in PR Tactics, a publication of the Public Relations Society of America, an organization from which she has also earned universal accreditation.
