Composition Program Contact Information
Joanna Wolfe
Director of Composition
Humanities 321
(502) 852-6896
Email: joanna.wolfe@louisville.edu
As a composition researcher, I am dedicated to making general education writing courses interesting, relevant, and useful to students in all academic disciplines. I love all types of writing and have published in education, computer science, literature, and composition journals. I also write fiction and poetry and have experience with a large range of business and professional genres. What matters most to me as a writing teacher is helping students understand the conventions of the genres they will need for their professional and academic lives and seeing students clearly articulate and support arguments written for a variety of audiences. My website can be found at http://louisville.edu/faculty/jlwolf02/.
Linda Baldwin
Program Assistant
Humanities 321
(502) 852-6896
E-mail Linda Baldwin
Linda Baldwin came to the English department in 1995 as Graduate Program Assistant, and later took over her current position as Composition Program Administrative Assistant. Prior to 1995, Linda worked at UofL’s Medical School and in the Office of the Vice-President. Linda received her degree in Psychology with a minor in Theatre Arts in May 05. She has written for the theatre at UofL and would love to have more time to devote to her interest in playwriting. Several evenings each week and on occasional Saturdays, you might find Linda working as your friendly Service Department Cashier at Neil Huffman Nissan in St. Matthews. Other frequent sightings have been at local grocery stores and home improvement centers. Linda has two sons, one of which is a student at UofL. On those rare occasions when she has free time, Linda enjoys visiting with friends and family, browsing estate sales, and planning and making home improvements.
Matthew Dowell
Assistant Director of Composition
Humanities 319F
(502) 852-5919
Office hours for Fall 09: TTh 9-11; TTh 2:30-3:30
E-mail Matthew Dowell
I’m a 3rd year PhD student who was born and raised in Louisville. I received my B.A. from the University of Dayton in 2004 and my M.A. from UofL in 2007. My interest in writing and writing pedagogy developed from my college newspaper and writing center work. At UofL I have taught English 101, 102, and Business Writing. In the fall semester I will take my comprehensive exams. My Research Area addresses the relationship between commenting practices and institutional ideologies, while my Literature Area investigates the role paratexts play in non-dominant discourse literature. My general research interests include first-year composition, writing studies and writing program administration. Outside of these general categories, I’m also interested in the rhetoric of United States slave resistance/revolt and speech act theory relating specifically to apology.
Brice Nordquist
Assistant Director of Composition
Humanities LL4D (Basement)
(502) 852-1252
office hours for fall 09: M 11am-2pm; W 2pm-5pm
E-mail: banord01@louisville.edu
I’m a 2nd year Ph.D. student originally from Texas. I received my B.A. in English from Midwestern State University in 2005 and my M.A. from Abilene Christian University in 2007. I’ve taught courses in composition, medieval literature, British literature, and in the writing center. I’m also interested in teaching with technology, literacy studies, course design, online writing instruction, and working Englishes in global contexts. I can likely serve as a resource if you're interested in course blogs or wikis, Blackboard tips, audio comments on student papers, using student texts in the classroom, multimodal instruction and assignments, and recursive course design. I'm looking forward to serving writing students, my colleagues, and the rest of our faculty--please let me know how I can help. The best way to contact me is through my e-mail address, banord01@louisville.edu.
Scott Rogers
Assistant Director of Composition
Humanities 319F
(502) 852-5919
Office hours for fall 09: TWTh 11am-1pm
E-mail: slroge04@louisville.edu
I am a 4th year PhD student at U of L working on a dissertation that tracks the uses and abuses of "trauma" as a reference point for experience related to the teaching and learning of college writing. My interests, more generally, focus on critical literacy, intersections of cultural and rhetorical studies, civil rhetorics (in particular Mexican American civil rights struggles), as well as life writing and trauma narratives. As a composition teacher, I prioritize two things--first, I want writing to be useful for students (in disciplines across the academy and outside of the university), and second, I want students to challenge themselves to think and work hard while producing texts that represent who they are and where they come from. I'm most useful to people interested in the difficult transition from high school to college writing, assessment strategies, assignment design and implementation, using student texts in the class room, as well as text selection and reading/discussion strategies. As an assistant director of composition, I am available to any instructor or student who wants to talk about teaching and/or writing strategies, the goals and purposes of the writing program, or European soccer.
