Joseph D Harris Associate Professor and Director of the University Writing Program
Office Location: Art Building 115, Box 90025
Office Phone: 919-684-0812
Email Address: joseph.harris@duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.duke.edu/~jdharris/
- Education and Interests:
- Ph.D., New York University
- Teaching Writing, History of Composition, Images of Teaching in Fiction and Film
- I have centered my career on teaching academic writing and directing college writing programs. In my book, **A Teaching Subject: Composition Since 1996**, I trace the recent history of how writing has been taught in US colleges, and I have also written a series of articles arguing for more support for the work of students and teachers of writing. My most recent book, **Rewriting: How to Do Things with Texts**, offers students a set of strategies for making strong and generous use of the work of other writers in their own prose. And I am currently at work on a book project looking at how the teaching of writing has been portrayed in fiction and film.
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- CCCC Studies in Writing & Rhetoric (SWR). From 2007 to present [swr] [author's comments]
- Rewriting: How to Do Things with Texts. Utah State University Press, July, 2006. [index.cfm] [PDF] [author's comments]
- "Undisciplined Writing." Delivering Composition. Ed. Kathleen Blake Yancey. Boynton/Cook, April, 2006. 155-67. [abs]
- "Deja Vu All Over Again." CCC 57 (February, 2006): 535-42. [PDF] [abs]
- A Teaching Subject: Composition Since 1966. Prentice Hall, 1997. [PDF] [author's comments]
- CCC: College Composition and Communication. 1994-1999 [author's comments]
- "Thinking like a Program." Pedagogy 4.3 (Fall, 2004): 357-63. [Harris_Pedagogy.pdf] [author's comments]
- "Revision as a Critical Practice." College English 65.6 (July, 2003): 577-92. [PDF] [author's comments]
- "Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss: Class Consciousness in Composition." CCC 52 (Sept. 2000): 43-68. [PDF] [author's comments]
- "Behind Blue Eyes: A Response to Marc Bousquet." JAC 22 (Fall, 2002): 891-99. [author's comments]
