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Faculty in Writing & Rhetoric
Dr. Libby Miles
Roosevelt 336
(401) 874-7417
lmiles@uri.edu
Director
Associate Professor
PhD: Purdue University
Teaching Interests: Rhetoric and social action; institutional discourse; interdisciplinary writing, especially maritime writing; travel and adventure writing.
Courses Recently Taught: HPR 112, WRT 201, WRT 227, WRT 305, WRT 512, WRT 524
Recent and/or Forthcoming Publications:
- The Practice of Problem-Based Learning: A Guide to Implementing Problem-Based Learning inthe 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.
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"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.)
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Disturbing Practices: Toward Institutional Change in Composition
Scholarship and Pedagogy." College English 62(July 2000):
756-766.
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"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; Advisory committee for the National Archives
of Composition and Rhetoric; 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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