Leslie Chilton

Leslie Chilton teaches first year composition at the ASU Downtown campus. She commenced teaching in 1979, as a teaching assistant and continued teaching until 1993. At this time her professional interests at ;Arizona State Universit shifted to student success classes and programming; she directed ASU 101 for the Division of Undergraduate Academic Services (now University College). In 1998 she commenced directing the Writing Center at ASU Tempe, and created and led two "Success at ASU" conferences. In 2007 she returned to teaching at the two-year old Arizona State University Campus downtown as a faculty associate and an instructor. At this time, 2018, she is still teaching first year compositon, as well as advanced compositon, writing for the professions, as well as teaching film and literature. Holding a doctorate in eighteenth century British literature, she collaborated with OM Brack, Jr., Professor of English at ASU in editing and publishing in the Tobias Smollett project, conducted by the University of Georgia Press. She edited Smollett's translations of Telemachus, the Son of Ulysses, The Devil on Crutches, and The Adventures of Gil Blas de Santillane. She also published on Samuel Johnson and picareque literature.