Lisa Tremain

Department Chair

PhD, University of California Santa Barbara
Biography: 

My research investigates the ecologies of writing knowledge development and transfer, including how writing and literacy are taught and learned in and beyond the classroom and post-secondary institution. My most recent interests have turned toward mulitmodality and transfer, linguistic justice, and writing in, across, and beyond the academic disciplines. I am currently co-editing a collection (forthcoming from Peter Lang Publishing) with Dr. Libbi Miller (Humboldt Professor of Education) where authors theorize, describe and/or analyze writing transfer through lenses of radical epistemological justice. In the classroom, I am interested in working in community to support collaborative and individual writing that enacts transformation of dominant textual structures, including scholarly genres.

Research: 

Rhetoric, Writing Studies, Writing Pedagogy and Assessment, Ways of Knowing and Writing, Writing Across the Curriculum

Courses Taught: 
English 102/103:Composition and Rhetoric A & B
English 104: Accelerated Composition & Rhetoric
English 215: Information Literacy & Writers Seminar
English 406: Theories and Technologies of Writing
English 422: Professional Research Pathways: Research, Libraries, & Graduate School Planning
English 581: Becoming a College-Level Instructor
English 611: Literacies and Epistemologies
English 612: Theories of Rhetoric and Composition
Publications: 
Radical Frameworks for Writing Transfer: Epistemological Justice in the Writing Classroom, co-edited with L. Miller (Peter Lang Publishing, forthcoming).
"Possibilities and Pathways: Connecting Multimodality and Educational Equity in the FYC Program" in Multimodal Composition: Faculty Development Programs and Institutional Change, co-authored with K. Stelter & J. Abidari (Routledge).
“Heavy Lifting: How WPAs Facilitate Uptake and Knowledge Transfer for Faculty," in Making Administrative Work Visible: Data-Driven Approaches to Understanding the Labor of Writing Program Administration (Univ. Press of Colorado).
“Creando Raíces: Sustaining Multilingual Students’ Ways of Knowing at the Developing HSI," in Composition Forum, Special Issue: Promoting Social Justice for Multilingual Writers on College Campuses, co-authored with J. Citti, L. Miller, N. Pérez & C. Well
“Extending What We Know: Reflections on the Transformational Value of Threshold Concepts for Writing Studies Faculty," in (Re)Considering What We Know: Learning Thresholds in Writing, Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy (Univ. Press of Colorado).
“(Dis)Positioning Writing about Writing Knowledge, Reflecting on Writer Identity: A Curriculum Aimed at Writing Knowledge Transfer", in Next Steps: New Directions for/in Writing About Writing (Univ. Press of Colorado).
Lisa Tremain
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