Ross-Blakley Hall 239 PO Box 871401
TEMPE, AZ 85287-1401
Mail code: 1401
Campus: Tempe
Long Bio
Having taught at a number of different institutions, Andrea Dickens currently teaches a wide variety of Writing Programs classes at ASU-Tempe, including ENG 101, 102, 107, 108, 301, 302 and WAC 107. She's particularly focused on working with students from diverse backgrounds and cultures in both first-year and advanced writing. Her current research focuses on thinking about sustainability of people and ways that contemplative pedagogies can be used in the composition classroom to foster deeper engagement that sustains a career. In her spare time she is a ceramic artist, poet, and spends time in creative fiber arts and volunteering at the Desert Botanical Garden.
Education
Ph.D. University of Virginia 2005
M.F.A. Ohio State University 2013
M.A. University of Virginia 2005
M.A.R. Yale University 1998
B.A. University of Virginia 1994
A.A. Piedmont Virginia Community College 2000
Research Interests
Andrea Janelle Dickens's work spans both academic and creative disicplines. She's particularly interested in rehtoric, religion and literature, and creative writing. Her book The Female Thinker (IB Tauris, 2009) looks at the 12 medieval women's textual legacies. Her current research interests include approaches to writing across the curriculum and developing a rhetoric for the creative process. She is also currently at work on a book-length study of the work of Mechtilde of Hackeborn and has just completed a book of poetry.
