Joseph D Harris, Associate Professor of English and Thompson Writing Program and Director, Thompson Writing Program
Contact Info:I will be on leave during the Fall 2009 semester. Please contact me by email.
Office Location: 115 Art Building, East Campus
Office Phone: 919 684 0812, 919 660 4368
E-mail Address: 
Web Page: http://www.duke.edu/~jdharris/
Typical Courses Taught:
- English 391, Writing pedagogies (mat program)
- english 173s, Special topics: dead poets and wonder boys: teaching and learning in ficiton and film
Synopsis
- Writing 20, Academic writing: lost in the supermarket: writing cultural criticism
Synopsis
- writing 20, Academic writing:reframing the 2004 election: metaphors and media
Synopsis
- Ph.D., New York University, 1986
- M.A., New York University, 1982
- B.A., Haverford College, 1979
Rhetoric
Research Interests:
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 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.
Curriculum Vitae
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 (2006): 155-67. [PDF] [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]