Education:

   Ph.D., English, New York University
            Dissertation: The Perils of Community: Nationalism and
                    the Shaping of American Writers, 1815-1840
      M.A., English, Washington University
      B.A., English, St. Louis University
 

Scholarly and Pedagogical Interests:

Composition theory, peer tutoring, writing program administration, writing across the curriculum, rhetorical theory, nineteenth-century women's rhetoric.  I am also one of the framers of the Outcomes Statement for first-year
composition recently adopted by the Council of Writing Program Administrators, published in
WPA: Writing Program Administration in Fall 1999.

Selected Publications and Conference Presentations:

"Administration as Emergence:  Toward a Rhetorical Theory of Writing Program
    Administration."  In The Writing Program Administrator as Theorist.  Eds.
    Shirley Rose and Irwin Weiser.  Heinemann, 2002.

"Fighting Across the Curriculum:  The WPA Joins the AAUP."  WPA: Writing
    Program Administration.  Spring 2001.

"Productive Change in a Turbulent Atmosphere: Pipe Dream or Possibility?"
    In Administrative Problem-Solving for Writing Programs and Writing Centers.  Ed.
    Linda Myers-Breslin. Urbana: NCTE, 1999.

"'From the Beginning to the End: Students, Stories and the Future of Comp Theory."
     Paper presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication,
      Chicago, March 1998.

"'The Writing Director is an English Professor'': The WPA in a Union Culture."
    Paper presented at the WPA annual conference, Michigan Tech, 1997.
 

Courses Taught:
This part of my web page is perpetually under construction .  (In fact, this whole thing is
perpetually under construction. )

 Spring 2002 Courses:

        ENG 200, Expository Writing

Fall 2002 Courses:

       ENG 202, Introduction to English Studies

I will be on sabbatic leave in Spring 2003.

For information about the University Writing Program at ECSU, click here.  My e-mail address is
malenczykr@easternct.edu.