Position Title
WAC Consultant
Continuing Lecturer
Research Areas:
Biography:
Katie Arosteguy is a lecturer in the University Writing Program at UC Davis, where she has been teaching a variety of upper-division writing courses since 2011, including advanced composition, writing in education, writing in psychology, business writing, writing in the health professions, and legal writing. Her research interests include teacher preparation/education, k-12 literacy & tutor preparation, and rhetorical approaches to professional writing and writing in the disciplines. She and two of her colleagues published a book with Teachers College Press titled A Student’s Guide to Academic and Professional Writing in Education in 2019. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Washington State University, an MA and secondary teaching credential in English from California State University, Sacramento, and a BA in English and BS in Biological Sciences from the University of California, Davis.
Publications:
A Student's Guide to Academic and Professional Writing in Education, with Alison Bright and Brenda Rinard. Teachers College Press, 2019.
https://www.tcpress.com/a-student-s-guide-to-academic-and-professional-w...
"Bridging the Gap Between Writer and Reader: The Benefits of Considering Audience," 2016.
https://writerswhocare.wordpress.com/2016/05/16/bridging-the-gap-between...
‘I have a kind of power I never knew I possessed:’ Transformative Motherhood in The Hunger Games.” The Hunger Games: Critical Examinations, McFarland Press, 2014.
https://books.google.com/books?id=yiMXAwAAQBAJ&pg=PR9&lpg=PR9&dq=have+a+...
“ ‘It Was All a Fog’: Motherhood and the Birth Experience in Mad Men.” Mad Men, Women and Children: Gender and Generation in Mad Men. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2012.
https://www.amazon.com/Mad-Men-Women-Children-Generation/dp/0739197584
"It was a hard, fast ride that ended in the mud": Deconstructing the Myth of the Cowboy in Annie Proulx's Close Range: Wyoming Stories. Western American Literature 45.2 (2010): 117-136.
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/388563
"The Politics of Race, Class, and Sexuality in Contemporary American Mommy Lit." Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 39: 5 (2010): 409-429.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00497878.2010.484327?journal...
“‘Things Men Must Do’: Negotiating American Masculinity in Jack London’s The Valley of the Moon.” Atenea: A Bilingual Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences 28.1 (2008): 37-54.
http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/34853829/things-men-must-do-n...
- writing in education; teacher preparation/education; k-12 literacy & tutor preparation; rhetorical approaches to writing in the disciplines; professional writing