I specialize in political reporting and social justice journalism, with an emphasis on reporting on poverty, immigration, the criminal justice system. My book The American Way of Poverty was listed as one of the New York Times' 100 Notable Books of the Year, establishing me as a national expert on poverty and on ways of giving voice to those living in poverty. I also write extensively on both documented I am a political correspondent and columnist for the Nation, and am now their west coast correspondent; I have a long track-reoord of writing both about national and also state politics.
writing in education; teacher preparation/education; k-12 literacy & tutor preparation; rhetorical approaches to writing in the disciplines; professional writing
T 10:30-12:30 on Zoom; R 10:30-11:30 in 311 Voorhies
Research Areas
Writing pedagogy with special interest in rhetorical approaches to disciplinary composition and source work; rhetoric of health and medicine; visual and material rhetoric; the rhetoric of public history; U.S. memoir and life writing.
writing program administration; writing across the curriculum; writing centers; tutor preparation; teacher identity; the professional development of teacher/writers
Contract grading and assessment, disability studies, the rhetoric of Health and Medicine, the history of Technical Communication, student-centered pedagogy.
Community-based writing, rhetorical approaches to genre and audience, information literacy and writing pedagogy, identity theory and critical race theory.
M 12:00-1:00PM, R 4:00-5:30 in Person; and by appointment on Zoom
Research Areas
Writing Studies and Pedagogy; Science and Technology Studies; Materialism (historical and scientific); Decolonial Studies; Film and Media Studies; Modernism and Poetics; Transnational American Literature; Literature and the Environment; Diversity in Higher Education (curriculum and access).
W 11:00-12:30 Zoom (https://usfca.zoom.us/j/81989894513), R 12:00-1:30
Research Areas
Writing Across the Curriculum and multilingual writing, language/grammar support, multilingual writers in writing program administration contexts Select Research Publications: (2022). Accuracy gains from unfocused feedback: Dynamic Written Corrective Feedback as meaningful pedagogy. Journal of Language and Education. (2021). More than just grammar deficiencies: Moving faculty in the disciplines toward a difference-as-resource pedagogical paradigm. In E. Lee, N. Fahim, J. Johnson, and B. R. Schreiber (Eds.), Building a more linguistically just campus: Theory, pedagogy, and advocacy. (2018). Student perceptions of dynamic written corrective feedback in developmental multilingual writing classes. Journal of Response to Writing. (2018). Dynamic written corrective feedback in developmental ESL writing classes. TESOL Quarterly. Ferris, D. R., Evans, K., & Kurzer, K. (2017). Placement of multilingual writers: Is there a role for directed self-placement? Assessing Writing.
Multimodal Feedback and its Implications with Multilingual Writers; Second Language Curriculum Design, Professional Writing and Multimodal Composition; Culture, Writing, and Rhetorical Implications; Professional Writing and Multicultural Communication ; Rhetoric of Social Media; Teaching Writing Online, Hybrid and Asynchronous Modalities; Visual Rhetoric in Digital Writing Environments
M 3:15-4:15 pm and W 9:10-10:10 am (87C), R 11:00 am – 12 noon, and by appt.
Research Areas
Digital voice studies, Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC), AI and writing, first-generation support, collaborative & interdisciplinary research and writing, open-source software development, performance studies, cultural analytics, 20th century poetry and the Anglo-American poetic tradition
Mondays and Wednesdays from 10:30-11:30 and by appointment
Research Areas
rhetoric and composition; antiracist writing pedagogies; intersectional feminist theory and practice; diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) & social justice; critical literacies; & writing across the curriculum
T 10:00-11:30 (Zoom Only); W 1:00-2:30 (in office or Zoom) & by appt.
Research Areas
second language writing; peer and teacher feedback; international graduate writing, reading, and oral skills; curriculum development; building students' transferable skills; program administration;
Teaching and research interests include Writing in Health Sciences and Writing in Education, Writing Across the Curriculum, labor-based contract grading, learning transfer, graduate writing and writing with AI.
