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English Faculty 

 

Marcia Taylor, Ph.D. , Chair

Professor & Chair of the Department

Composition & Communication
Language & Literature

Anspach Hall 215
(989) 774-3171
Marcy.taylor@cmich.edu

 

Education

Ph.D., University of Washington, 1996
M.A., University of Idaho, 1991
B.A. & B.S., University of Idaho, 1987


Teaching Expertise

Composition Theory & Pedagogy
English Education
Rhetorical Theory/History

 

Research Interests

GA Training
Pedagogy
Post Process Theory
Ethnographic Research Methods

 

Publications

“Editors’ Introduction”  Pedagogy:  Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 7.1 (forthcoming Winter 2007). (Co-authored with Jennifer L. Holberg).Special Issue:  "Wayne Booth as Teacher."

“Editors’ Introduction.”  Pedagogy:  Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 6.3 (Fall 2006): 205-208  (Co-authored with Jennifer L. Holberg).

“English 101:  First-Year Composition.  Second Edition.  Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 2006. (Co-authored with Elizabeth Brockman and Laura Grow).

“Editors’ Introduction: The Teaching Self.”  Pedagogy:  Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 6.2 (Spring 2006): 205-208  (Co-authored with Jennifer L. Holberg).

“Editors’ Introduction.” Pedagogy:  Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 5.3 (Fall 2005):  367-369.  (Co-authored with Jennifer L. Holberg).

“Editors’ Introduction:  Vision, Excellence, and the Values of Being Difficult.”  Pedagogy:  Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 5.2 (Spring 2005):  167-174. (Co-authored with Jennifer L. Holberg).

“Editors’ Introduction:  An Open Letter to our Readers.”  Pedagogy:  Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 5.1 (Winter 2005): 1-3.  (Co-authored with Jennifer L. Holberg).

“Editors’ Introduction.” Pedagogy:  Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 4.3 (Fall 2004):  353-355.  (Co-authored with Jennifer L. Holberg).

English 101: First-Year Composition.  Dubuque, IA:  Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 2004.  (Co-authored with Elizabeth Brockman).

"Exploring Teacher Evaluation within a Community of Truth: Testing the Ideas of Parker Palmer." Innovative Higher Education 28.3 (forthcoming Spring 2004): 163-185. (Co-authored with Susan Schiller and Pamela S. Gates).

"Always Beginning": Nancie Atwell's In the Middle and the Ongoing Transformation of the Writing Workshop." English Journal 90.1 (Sept 2000): 46.52.

"Teaching Writing with a Capital T:  Rethinking Writing Workshop In the Middle." Language Arts Journal of Michigan 15.2 (Fall 1999): 72-76.

"'Tales of Neglect and Sadism':  Disciplinarity and the Figuring of the Graduate Student in Composition."  College Composition and Communication 50.4 (1999):  607 - 25. (Co-authored with Jennifer L. Holberg.)

"Telling Tales (in and Out) of School: Ethnographies of Schooling and the Preparation of English Teachers."  English Education 30.2 (1998):  101 - 120.

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