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Payne Hall 31B.A., Brigham Young University, 1985
M.A., Duke University, 1986
Ph.D., Duke University, 1991
Rhetoric and Culture; Writing Instruction; the Politics of Higher Education; Native American Literature; Southern American Literature; Western American Literature
English 101—Expository Writing
English 105—Composition and Literature
English 201—Advanced Expository Writing
English 253—Southern American Literature
English 299—Seminar for Prospective Majors
English 380—Advanced Seminar
English 413—Senior Research and Writing
The Creation/Evolution Controversy: a Battle for Cultural Power. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998.
"An Interview with Charles Bazerman." Composition Studies 23 (1995): 21-36. (Co-authored with T. Hugh Crawford.)
"Attacking (Southern) Creationists." Religion in the Contemporary South: Diversity, Community, and Identity. Eds. O. Kendall White, Jr. and Daryl White. Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings, No. 28. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995. 59-66.
"Senkyoshigo: A Missionary English of Japan." American Speech 63 (1988): 137-49.
The Southern Short Story
The Problem of Value in 19th-Century American Literature
Native American Literature
Western American Literature
Cultural Conflicts in the American West
Writing Good English Sentences.
"Don't Tread on Me: Crossing Boundaries in the Liberal Arts." Teaching Writing in the Liberal Arts: Pedagogy and Politics. Eds. Joanna Castner and James A. Inman. Cresskill, NJ.:Hampton Press, forthcoming.
