Denise K Comer
Contact Info:Office Location: Art Building, East Campus, Room 101
Office Phone: +1 919 660 4357, 919 660 4368
E-mail Address:
Teaching (Summer2 2008):
- Writing 10.01, Intro critical reading/writing
Social sciences 229, MTuWThF 09:30 AM-10:45 AM
- Writing 10.02, Intro critical reading/writing
Social sciences 229, MTuWThF 11:00 AM-12:15 PM
- Writing 10.03, Intro critical reading/writing
Social sciences 109, MTuWThF 11:00 AM-12:15 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.
Recent Publications
- 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.