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Nedra Reynolds

Nedra Reynolds, Ph.D.

Professor, Department Chair

Office: Roosevelt 322
Office Hours:MWF: 10:30 - 1:30; TTH: 10:30 - 12:00; and by appointment.
Phone: (401) 874-4665
E-mail: nedra@uri.edu
Degrees: Emporia State University; Miami University of Ohio

Teaching Interests:
Geographies of writing; composition pedagogy and cultural studies; portfolios.

Courses Recently Taught: WRT 201, WRT 270, WRT 435, WRT 490

Recent and/or Forthcoming Publications:
  • Geographies of Writing: Inhabiting Places and Encountering Difference, Southern Illinois University Press, 2004.
  • The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing, 6th edition 2004. With Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg.
  • Portfolio Keeping: A Guide for Students and Portfolio Teaching: A Guide for Teachers. Bedford Books, 2000.
  • "Activism and Service Learning." with Donna M. Bickford. Pedagogy 2(2002): 229-52.
  • "Who's Going to Cross This Border? Travel Metaphors, Material Conditions, and Contested Places." jac 20(2000): 541-64.
  • "Composition's Imagined Geographies: The Politics of Space in the Frontier, City, and Cyberspace" College Composition and Communication, Vol. 50, September 1998.
  • "Interrupting Our Way to Agency: Feminist Cultural Studies and Composition" in Feminism and Composition Studies: In Other Words (MLA).
Professional Activities:Visiting Scholar or Invited Speaker at Virginia Tech University (April 2010); University of Connecticut--Greater Hartford (April 2010); DePaul University (December 2009); University of Montana (August 2009); University of Michigan at Dearborn (April 2009); University of Hawai`i at M?noa (October 2008); Emerson College (September 2007); University of Tampa (February 2007); former chair of the PK-16 Advisory Committee on the Language Arts (State of Rhode Island Office of Higher Education and Department of Education); past member of the CCCC Executive Committee.

Current Research Interests: Place-based theories of composing; portfolio assessment.

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