Department of English

Profile

Chris Warnick received his Ph.D. in English, with a concentration in Composition, Literacy, Pedagogy, and Rhetoric, from the University of Pittsburgh in 2006. In addition to teaching courses in composition, he currently serves as the Director of Writer's Group. His teaching and research interests include undergraduate student writing, public literacy, and the history and theory of the essay. He is currently at work on a research project that examines students' attitudes toward creative nonfiction in the composition classroom.

Recent Publications and Confrence Papers

"Locating the Archives: Finding Aids and Archival Scholarship in Composition and Rhetoric." Working in the Archives: Methods, Sources, Histories. Ed. Barbara L'Eplattenier, Lisa Mastrangelo, Wendy Sharer, and Alexis Ramsey. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP (forthcoming)

"'Creative Nonfiction frequently pisses off professors': Students' Perceptions of Creative Nonfiction." Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, April 2008.

"Place Based Learning in First-Year Composition." Co-presented with Erica Artiles. South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, November 2007.

"I'm Your Teacher, Not Your Friend: Half Nelson and the Teacher-Student Dialectic." Teachers, Teaching, and the Movies Conference, Charleston, SC, October 2007.

Rev. of Creating a New Kind of University: Institutionalizing Community-University Engagement, ed. Stephen L. Percy, Nancy L. Zimpher, and Mary Jane Brukhardt. Community Literacy Journal 1.2 (Spring 2007): 95-7.

"Sixties Student Memoirs and the Collective Identity of the Student Radical." Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, March 2007.

Rev. of Tactics of Hope: The Public Turn in Composition Studies, by Paula Mathieu. Composition Studies 34.1 (Spring 2006): 143-6.