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Faculty
Composition
Studies faculty at UNH work closely with graduate students, providing
multiple and ongoing opportunities for professional growth. Some
graduate students also work with faculty from English Language and Linguistics,
Literary Studies, and the Doctoral Program in Literacy and
Schooling, an interdisciplinary program housed in the Department of
Education.
Composition Studies Core Faculty
 Thomas
Newkirk (Ph.D., University of
Texas, Austin)
is Professor of English. For the past
20 years he has built and directed the New Hampshire Writing Program,
a
set of summer institutes attended by teachers from across the country.
He
has studied literacy learning at all levels, from the first scribbles
a child makes to the writing of college students. He is the author
of
four books, More Than Stories: The Range of Children's Writing;
Listening In: What Children Say About Books (And Other Things);
Misreading
Masculinity : Boys, Literacy, and Popular Culture, and The
Performance of Self in Student Writing, for
which he has won the
David Russell Award. He is currently
studying the ways in which upper elementary school students appropriate
visual narratives (cartoons, TV shows) in their writing.
Associate Faculty
 Gesa
Kirsch (Ph.D., University of San Diego) is a visiting
faculty member who will teach a doctoral seminar in Composition
Studies in Spring 2008. She is Professor of English at Bentley
College, where she currently directs the Communication Across the
Curriculum Program. She has also served as co-founding director
of the Institute for Women in Leadership. She has authored or co-edited
six books and published over two dozen articles and book chapters
on topics such as feminism and composition studies, feminism and
business ethics, qualitative research methodology, women’s
role in higher education, women’s memoir, autobiography and
oral history. She is currently editing, with Liz Rohan, Labor
of Love: Research as a Lived Process (forthcoming from Southern
Illinois UP).
In addition to the core faculty in Composition Studies, graduate
students might be interested in working with faculty members with
expertise in related fields. A
complete list of faculty members in the English Department is available here.
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