Denise K. Comer, Assistant Professor of the Practice in Writing and Director, 1st Year Writing Program
Contact Info:Office Location: 101 Art Buildin
Office Phone: +1 919 660 4357, 919 660 4368
E-mail Address:
Teaching (Fall 2009):
- Writing 20.06, Academic writing
Synopsis
Art 116, TuTh 11:40 AM-12:55 PM
- Ph.D., University of South Carolina, Columbia, 1999
Rhetoric
Research Interests:
Writing 20
Denise Comer's research interests include composition, nineteenth-century British literature, travel writing, and women's studies. Her current scholarship focuses on issues of the profession in composition and rhetoric, as well as Romantic and Victorian British women's travel writing in India.
Postdocs Mentored
- Thompson Writing Fellows (2008/11-present)
Recent Publications
- with D.K. Comer and Bradley Hammer. "“Surveying the Efficacy of Digital Response: Pedagogical Imperatives, Faculty Approaches, and Student Feedback.." Teaching Writing with Technology Fountainhead Press 2008.
- D.K. Comer. "'White child is good, black child his [or her] slave': Children, Women, and Empire in Early Ninteenth-Century India." European Romantic Review 16.1 (January, 2005): 39-58.
- D.K. Comer. ""Negotiating Privilege in the Teaching of Travel Literature"." Methods for Teaching Travel Literature and Writing. Exploring the World and Self. Edited by Eileen Groom. Peter Lang 2005.