Student Information
Graduate Student
English (Writing, Rhetorics, and Literacies)
The College of Lib Arts & Sci
Long Bio
Eric is responsible for teaching, managing, and running the first-year composition courses offered through Learning Enterprise’s Universal Learner Courses. He is also a PhD candidate in ASU’s Writing, Rhetorics and Literacies program, where he is wrapping up his dissertation, “Composition’s Technological Boneyard: Writing Technologies, Keeping Up, and Teaching Writing.”
Over the past five years, he has taught an array of writing courses on ASU's Tempe campus and spent three of those years as Assistant Director of Writing Programs. As Assistant Director, he aided in developing professional development for faculty, as well as establishing new curriculum initiatives like Writing Programs Custom Textbook and Common Read Program. His scholarship has appeared in WPA: Writing Program Administration, and he has contributed instructional materials to Writing Programs’ custom textbook, Bedford/St. Martin’s “Assignments that Work” blog, and Dynamic Activities for First-Year Composition, edited by Michal Reznizki and David T. Coad.
Education
B.A. English (cum laude), University of California Los Angeles
M.A. English with a concentration in Writing and Rhetoric, Monmouth University (thesis awarded distinction)
Research Interests
Multimodality, online teaching, writing pedagogy, writing program administration, writing technologies
Publications
Brown, Eric D. and Savanna G. Conner. “Forty Years of Resistance in T.A. Education. WPA: Writing Program Administration, vol. 42, no. 3, 2019, pp. 65-70.
Courses
2022 Fall
2022 Summer
2022 Spring
2021 Fall
2021 Summer
2021 Spring
2020 Fall
2020 Summer
2020 Spring
2019 Fall
2019 Spring
2018 Fall
Honors / Awards
Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA) Teaching Excellence Award (Fall 2018)
Editorships
WPA: Writing Program Administration, Graduate Assistant Editor (2020-2021)
Service
Arizona State University, Assistant Director of Writing Programs
Arizona State University, Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA) Reviewer
Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Reviewer
WPA: Writing Program Administration, Advertising Manager (2019-2020)