Background:
I grew up in Seattle, did my graduate work at Rutgers University in New Jersey, got my first job at Long Island University in Brooklyn, then joined the IU South Bend English Department in 1999.
Rebecca Brittenham, Professor of English
Contact Information
Office Location: Wiekamp Hall, Room DW3129
Office Phone: (574) 520-4826
Email: rbritten@iu.edu
Education:
BA University of Washington
MA and PhD, Rutgers University
Research Interests
My work in Composition/Rhetoric focuses on the impact of 1960s counter-cultural politics, in television, in the canon of anthologies used in writing classroom, and on the field of Composition Studies itself. I have published articles on this topic in College Composition and Communication, JAC, College English, Pedagogy and in the The Journal of Developmental Education. I also co-wrote Key Words for Academic Writers, a playful dictionary of academic literacy (Pearson Longman, 2004) and co-edited a Composition anthology, Making Sense: Readings for Writers (2nd ed., Houghton Mffli in, 2006).
Courses Recently Taught at IU South Bend
First-Year Writing, Advanced Expository Writing
Food Writing
English T190 on Monsters
Victorian Literature
Graduate-Level Composition Studies
Teaching Interests
My core interest is in the teaching of writing at all levels and in various contexts. While my greatest passion and energy goes into teaching our sequence of first-year writing courses, English W130, and W131, I love spinning out the more nuanced moves of essay writing in W250, “Contexts for Writing,” and in W350, “Advanced Expository Writing,” and theorizing those moves in L502, our graduate course on Composition Studies and Literacy. I thoroughly enjoy teaching Food Writing, Women’s Studies courses, Victorian Literature, and the occasional Masters in Liberal Studies course or Senior Seminar as well.
Teaching Awards
Frederic Bachman Lieber Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence, IU.
IU South Bend Distinguished Teaching Award.
Trustees Teaching Award, IU South Bend.
Membership in the Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching, IU.