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Denise K. Comer

Denise K. Comer, Professor of the Practice and Director of Language, Arts and Media Program and Director

Contact Info:
Office Location:  1 Brodie Gym Drive, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone: +1 919 660 4357
E-mail Address:  send me a message
Web Page:   http://twp.duke.edu/

Teaching (Spring 2024):

  • Ethics 89s.01, First-year seminar (top) Synopsis Art 116, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
Education:
  • 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
Specialties:
Rhetoric

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)

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  • 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]

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