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Libby Miles

Libby Miles, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Office: Roosevelt 336
Office Hours: T:12:30 - 2:00 and W:10:30 - 11:30
Phone: (401) 874-7417
E-mail: lmiles@uri.edu
Degrees: Williams College; Purdue University

Teaching Interests:
Rhetoric and social action; institutional discourse; interdisciplinary writing, especially maritime writing; travel and adventure writing; peer tutoring.

Courses Recently Taught: HPR 112, WRT 227, WRT 305, WRT 353, WRT 524, WRT 645

Recent and/or Forthcoming Publications:
  • "Rhetorical Work: Social Materiality, Kairos, and Changing the Terms." JAC 27.3/4 (2007): 743-758.
  • "Thinking Vertically." (co-authored with Kim Hensley Owens, Michael Pennell, Jeremiah Dyehouse, Helen O'Grady, Nedra Reynolds, Robert Schwegler, and Linda Shamoon) College Composition and Communication 59.3 (2008): 503-511.
  • The Practice of Problem-Based Learning: A Guide to Implementing Problem-Based Learning in the College Classroom (with Jose Amador and C.B. Peters). Anker Publising, 2006.
  • "Institutional Critique Revisited" (with Jeffrey T. Grabill, James E. Porter, and Stuart Blythe). Works & Days 41/42 (2003): 219-237.
  • "Constructing Composition: Reproduction and WPA Agency in Textbook Publishing." WPA: Writing Program Administration 24 (Fall/Winter, 2000): 29-53. (Received the "Best Article in WPA" for 1999-2000.)
  • "Disturbing Practices: Toward Institutional Change in Composition Scholarship and Pedagogy." College English 62(July 2000): 756-766.
  • "Institutional Critique: A Rhetorical Methodology for Change." With James E. Porter, Patricia Sullivan, Jeffrey T. Grabill, and Stuart Blythe. College Composition and Communication, 51 (June 2000): 610-642. (Received the 2001 CCCC Braddock Award.)
Professional Activities: CCCC Executive Committee; Reviewer for JAC, CCC, College English, WPA; Regular presenter at Conference on College Composition and Communication; Workshop leader for problem-based learning; College/school connections.

Current Research Interests: Interdisciplinary writing; composition textbook publishing; institutional critique; Problem-Based Learning.

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