Profiles in "Composition Studies" Expertise Area

  • Paul Kei Matsuda is Professor of English and Director of Second Language Writing. He has published widely on issues related to language, writing, identity, mentoring, and professional development.
  • Roen's research interests have evolved throughout his career. He is most interested in collaborative writing, audience, portfolio assessment, public intellectuals, and professional development for graduate students.
  • Boyles specializes in popular culture, digital literacy, visual rhetoric, and the rhetoric of higher education.
  • Early is a scholar of English education and secondary literacy. She is the director of the Central Arizona Writing Project, a local site of the National Writing Project.
  • Cryer teaches writing at Arizona State University. His poetry collection, 'Selected Proverbs', won Elixir Press' 2016 Antivenom Poetry Award.
  • Shirley Rose's research focuses on writing program administration, archival research methods, writing across the lifespan and climate activist rhetorics. She directed ASU Writing Programs in The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences from 2009 to 2019.
  • Kenneth Ladenburg holds a PhD in Writing, Rhetorics, and Literacies from Arizona State University. His research focuses on the rhetoric of Race, Racism, Racist Discourse, Composition Theory, and Contemporary Rhetorical Theory
  • Ore's work examines the suasive strategies of aggrieved communities as they operate within a post-emancipation historical context.
  • Completed her PhD in Writing, Rhetorics, and Literacies in May of 2019.
  • Lisa Barca 's research interests include rhetoric and writing; Italian language and literature; comparative literature; women writers; critical animal studies; ecofeminism; language and ideology; mass media.