Doctoral Program in Composition Studies at UNH

<body background="back.jpg"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" width="600" cellspacing="1" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111"> <tr> <td width="58" rowspan="3"> <a href="http://www.gradschool.unh.edu/" target="_blank"> <img alt="UNH Graduate School" src="thall.icon.gif" align="center" border="0" width="64" height="66"></a></td> <td> <p align="center"> <a href="http://www.unh.edu/" target="_blank"> <img src="unhletter.gif" border="0" vspace="2" alt="University of New Hampshire" width="350" height="21"></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#003366"> <p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#FFFFFF"> PhD Program in Composition Studies</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td nowrap> <p align="center"><font color="#003366" face="Times New Roman" size="2"> Department of English * Hamilton Smith Hall * 95 Main Street * Durham NH 03824-3574</font></td> </tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="1" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="600"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <hr> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b>PROGRAM<br> </b><a href="overview.html">Overview</a> | <a href="courses.html"> Coursework</a> | <a href="language.html">Languages</a> | <a href="exams.html">Exams</a> | <a href="dissertation.html">Dissertation</a> | <a href="funding.html">Funding</a></font></p> <p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b>PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES<br> </b><a href="teaching.html">Teaching</a> | <a href="research.html">Research</a> | <a href="admin.html">Administration</a></font></p> <p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b>COMMUNITY<br> </b><a href="faculty.html">Faculty</a> | <a href="students.html">Students</a> | <a href="alumni.html">Alumni</a></font></p> <p align="center"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b>APPLICATIONS<br> </b><a href="admission.html">Admission</a> | <a href="assist.html">Financial Aid</a> | <a href="international.html">International</a> | <a href="faq.html">FAQs</a></font></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <hr> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <blockquote> <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><a href="http://www.unh.edu/english/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><font color="#000000">The Department of English</font></a> at the <a href="http://www.unh.edu/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><font color="#000000">University of New Hampshire</font></a> offers a well-established Ph.D. program in English with a specialization in Composition Studies. </font></p> <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"> <img border="0" src="thall.jpg" align="left" hspace="5" vspace="3" alt="Thompson Hall" width="104" height="127">Created in 1985, our program is designed to prepare experts in <font size="3">composition theory, research and pedagogy who can contribute to the evolving knowledge in the field through rigorous research and scholarship. In addition to a specialization in composition studies, students will develop a secondary area of specialization such as critical theory, English as a second language, English teaching, linguistics or literature.</font></font></p> <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b>Faculty Interests:</b> second language writing (L2 writing; ESL writing; EFL writing), applied linguistics, contrastive rhetoric, comparative rhetoric, TESOL (TESL / TEFL), written discourse analysis, writing across the curriculum (WAC), writing center, electronic discourse, online discourse, digital rhetoric, literacy, cultural studies, narrative, voice and identity, construction and representation of self, theories of rhetoric, historiography, performance theory, writing process or processes, process and post-process theories, history of composition studies. </font></p> <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b>Courses: </b>second language writing, composition theory, history of composition, research methods and methodology, theoretical and historical studies in rhetoric, issues in L2 writing, WAC, gender and writing, world Englishes.</font></p> <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b>Faculty:</b> Jess Enoch, Paul Kei Matsuda, Thomas Newkirk, Donald M. Murray (Emeritus).</font></p> <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b>Associate Faculty:</b> John Brereton (U Mass Boston), Thomas Carnicelli, Mary Clark, Donald Graves (Emeritus), Sally Jacoby, Rochelle Lieber, John Lofty, Aya Matsuda, Lisa Miller, Naomi Nagy, Paula Salvio, Judith Sharkey. </font></p> <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b>Teaching Opportunities:</b> Introductory Composition (aka Freshman Composition, First Year Composition), Creative Nonfiction, Technical Writing, Persuasive Writing.</font></p> <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b>Publications:</b> <i>Landmark Essays on ESL Writing, On Second Language Writing, </i> <i>More Than Stories:  The Range of Children's Writing</i>;  <i>Listening In: What Children Say About Books (And Other Things)</i>; <i> The Performance of Self in Student Writing</i>;<i> Pedagogy in the Age of Politics</i>; <i>Methods and Methodology in Composition Studies</i>;<i> Writing With: New Directions in Collaborative Teaching</i>;<i> Learning</i>;<i> and Research</i>; and <i>Coming to Class: Pedagogy and the Social Class of Teachers</i>;<i> </i>and <i>Gender and the Journal: Diaries and Academic Discourse</i>. </font> </p> <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Faculty members have published in various journals, including: <i> Academic.Writing College English, College Composition and Communication, Composition Studies, Computers and Composition, Journal of Advanced Composition, Journal of Second Language Writing, Reader,</i> and <i> Written Communication. </i> </font></p> <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b>Conferences:</b> Faculty and graduate students present regularly at conferences such as: American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL); College Composition and Communication, UNH Writing Conference; <a href="http://symposium.jslw.org/">Symposium on Second Language Writing</a>; <a href="http://www.tesol.org/">Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages</a> (TESOL); the World Congress on Applied Linguistics; Northern New England TESOL; Northeastern Writing Center Association Conference.</font></p> <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b>Awards: </b>David Russell Award; James L. Kinneavy Award; James A. Berlin Dissertation Award; TOEFL Outstanding Young Scholar Award.</font></p> <p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><b>In Memorium: </b>Robert J. Connors, author of <em>Composition-Rhetoric</em> (University of Pittsburgh Press).</font></p> </blockquote> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <hr> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> <p align="center"> </td> </tr> </table> </body>