Denise K. Comer, Professor of the Practice and Director

Teaching (Fall 2024):

• Writing 271.01, Reflective wtg & intern/work Synopsis Tba, -
  
• Writing 271.02, Reflective wtg & intern/work Synopsis Tba, -
  
• Writing 271.06, Reflective wtg & intern/work Synopsis Tba, -
  

• Ph.D., University of South Carolina, Columbia, 1999
• M.A., University of Maryland, College Park, 1995
• B.A., Virginia Polytech Institute and State University, 1993

Research Interests:
Writing Studies
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-present)

• Comer, D. "Providing Peer Feedback as a Threshold Concept for Writing Transfer." Composition Forum 52 (December, 2023).
• Comer, D. "Embodied CV (Abridged)." Our Body of Work. Embodied Administration and Teaching. Edited by Nicolas, M; Sicari, A. Utah State University Press August, 2022.
• Comer, D. "Collective Bargaining, Heterogeneity, and Non-Tenure Track Faculty." Speaking Up Speaking Out: Lived Experiences of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty in Writing Studies. Edited by Sanchez, R; McGuire, M; Edwards, J. Utah State University Press September, 2021.
• Comer, D; Dasgupta, A. "Globalizing Writing: Exposure, Exchange, and Reflection." Currents in Teaching and Learning 11.2 (February, 2020).
• Baker, RS; Wang, Y; Paquette, L; Aleven, V; Popescu, O; Sewall, J; Rosé, C; Tomar, GS; Ferschke, O; Zhang, J; Cennamo, MJ; Ogden, S; Condit, T; Diaz, J; Crossley, S; McNamara, DS; Comer, DK; Lynch, CF; Brown, R; Barnes, T; Bergner, Y. "Educational Data Mining." Data Mining And Learning Analytics: Applications in Educational Research JOHN WILEY & SONS INC 2019: 55-66. [doi]  [abs]