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Bruce Horner

Appointments

  • Professor
  • Endowed Chair Rhetoric and Composition

Departments

Location

  • Room 317 D
  • Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus

Phone Number

  • 502-852-2185

Email Address

Website

Bio

Office Hours: MW 3:45-5:30; M 6:45-7:15

English Courses Recently Taught:

ENGL 101 - 75: Introduction to College Writing - WC (Spring, 2009)
ENGL 401 - 01: Histories, Theories, and Pedagogies of Literacy Honors Seminar (Fall, 2008)
ENGL 674 - 01: Writing, Cognition, and Culture in Curriculum Design (Fall, 2008)
ENGL 506 - 75: Teaching of Writing (Spring, 2008)
ENGL 101 - 76: Introduction to College Writing - WC (Fall, 2007)
ENGL 674 - 75: Critical Pedagogy, Its Discontents, and Beyond in English Studies (Fall, 2007)
ENGL 101 - 75: Introduction to College Writing - WC (Spring, 2007)
ENGL 101 - 76: Introduction to College Writing - WC (Spring, 2007)
ENGL 687 - 01: Basic Writing in History, Theory, and Practice (Fall, 2006)


Educational Background

  • Ph.D. from University of Pittsburgh

Teaching Areas

  • Composition and composition history, theory, and pedagogy
  • Histories, theories, and pedagogies of literacy

Research Interests

  • Relationships between the globalizing English, the globalizing economy, the U.S. “English Only” movement, and composition studies; labor, class, and composition; histories, theories, and pedagogies of basic writing; critical forms of literacy ethnography; the politics of literacy instruction; the cultural study of musics.

Professional Activities

  • “The Logic of Listening to Global Englishes.” Presidential forum with Min-Zhan Lu. Modern Language Association Conference. San Francisco, CA, 29 December 2008.
  • “From English-Only to Multilingual Pedagogy: World Englishes, Linga Franca English, and the Response to Difference in Student Writing.” Keynote lecture, Louisiana Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Conference. Baton Rouge, LA, 17 October 2008.
  • "Toward Multilingual University Discourse(s): Negotiating Global Englishes.” Conference presentation. Les discours universitaires: Formes, pratiques, mutations. Colloque international, Universités de Bruxelles, Liège, & Louvain. Brussels, Belgium, 25 April 2008.
  • “Globalizing, English-Only, and Difference in Student Writing: Toward a Multilingual Pedagogy.” National University of Singapore. 15 November 2007.

Honors & Awards

  • Richard Braddock Award for Most Outstanding Article Published in College Composition and Communication 2002 (for “English Only and U.S. College Composition”)
  • 2001 W. Ross Winterowd Award for the Most Outstanding Book Published Each Year on Composition Theory (for Terms of Work for Composition: A Materialist Critique, SUNY 2000).

Professional Memberships

  • Editorial Advisory Board, Studies in Writing and Rhetoric book series, Southern Illinois UP/NCTE Conference on College Composition and Communication.

Publications

  • “Resisting Monolingualism in English: Reading and Writing the Politics of Language.” With Min-Zhan Lu. Rethinking English in the Classroom. Ed. Viv Ellis, Carol Fox, and Brian Street. London: Continuum, 2007. 141-57.

  • Cross-Language Relations in Composition

    College English Special Issue, co-edited with Min-Zhan Lu and Paul Kei Matsuda.   College English 68 (2006).

  • "Class, Class Consciousness, and ‘Good Teaching Jobs.'"

    JAC 26 (2006): 139-55.

  • "Critical Ethnography, Ethics, and Work: Rearticulating Labor."

    Ethnography Unbound: From Theory Shock to Critical Praxis. Ed. Stephen G. Brown and Sidney I. Dobrin. Albany: State U of New York P, 2004. 13-34.

  • "Mixing It Up: The Personal in Public Discourse."

    The Private, the Public and the Published.  Ed. Thomas Kent and Barbara Couture. Logan: Utah State UP, 2004. 185-97.

  • “Plagiarism, Difference, and Power.”

    Pluralizing Plagiarism: Identities, Contexts, Pedagogies.  Ed. Rebecca Moore Howard and Amy E. Robillard.  Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 2008.  171-77.

  • “James Slevin and the Identifying Practices of Composition.”

    ADE Bulletin no. 143 (Fall 2007): 14-17.

  • Writing Conventions

    Co-authored with Min-Zhan Lu.  New York: Pearson Longman/Penguin Academics, 2008.

  • “Rhetoric and(?) Composition.”

    With Min-Zhan Lu.  The Sage Handbook of Rhetorical Studies.  Ed. Andrea A. Lunsford, Kirt H. Wilson, and Rosa E. Eberly.  Los Angeles: Sage, 2009.  293-315.