Scott Rogers

Assistant Director of Composition

Humanities 319F

(502) 852-5919

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.