Debra Journet

Appointments

• Professor
• Director, Watson Conference

Departments

• Current Faculty

Location

• Room 318 A
• Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus

Phone Number

• 502-852-3056

Email Address

• debra.journet at louisville.edu

Website

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Bio

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English Courses Recently Taught

ENGL 302 - 75: British Literature II (Spring, 2008)
ENGL 595 - 01: Studies in Literature and Science (Spring, 2008)
ENGL 105 - 07: Advanced Composition for Freshmen - WC (Fall, 2007)
ENGL 687 - 01: Seminar in Rhetorical Studies (Fall, 2007)
ENGL 674 - 10: Digital Media and Composition (Summer, 2007)
ENGL 302 - 01: British Literature II (Spring, 2007)
ENGL 548 - 75: The Novel in the Twenty-First Century (Spring, 2007)
ENGL 105 - 06: Advanced Composition for Freshmen - WC (Fall, 2006)
ENGL 620 - 01: Research in the Composing Process (Fall, 2006)
ENGL 302 - 02: British Literature II (Spring, 2006)
ENGL 552 - 75: Special Topics in Literature in English (Spring, 2006)

Educational Background

• Ph.D. from McGill University

Teaching Areas

• Rhetoric and Composition

Research Interests

• Rhetoric of science. Narrative theory. Technical and scientific communication. Science and literature. Narrative and gaming. Multimodal Composition. Research methodologies in rhetoric and composition. First-year composition. Modern British literature.

Professional Activities

• Director, 2006 Thomas R.Watson Conference in Rhetoric and Composition. "Narrative Knowledge/Narrative Action." October 5-7, 2006
• Director, 2008 Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition: "The New Work of Composing." October 16-18, 2008

Honors & Awards

• Senior Fulbright Scholar. Lucian Blaga University. Sibiu, Romania. Spring 2002. Fulbright Senior Specialist. Lucian Blaga University. Sibiu, Romania. Spring 2005.
• University of Louisville Distinguished Teaching Professor.

Publications

• Narrative, Action, and Embodiment

  "Narrative, Action, and Embodiment: The Stories of Myst.”Gaming Lives in the Twenty-First Century. Ed. Cynthia L. Selfe and Gail Hawisher. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan. Forthcoming.

• Learning While Doing

  “Learning While Doing:  Observations of a Multimodal Classroom.”  Multimodal Resources.  Ed.  Cynthia L. Selfe.  Cresskill, NJ:  Hampton Press.  Forthcoming. 

• Metaphor, Ambiguity and Motive in Evolutionary Biology

  “Metaphor, Ambiguity and Motive in Evolutionary Biology:  W.D. Hamilton and the ‘Gene’s Point of View.’”  Written Communication.  22 (2005), 379-420.  NCTE Award for Excellence in Technical and Scientific Communication:  Best Article Reporting Historical or Textual Research

• The Ethics of Reading

  “The Ethics of Reading:  Beloved in Romania."  Visions and Revisions:  Festschrift for Dumitru Cicoi-Pop.  Ed. Alexandra Mitrea.  Sibiu, Romania:  Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu Press, 2003:  23-43.