department of english
            university of colorado
                  faculty

---

---

Assistant Professor of English Assistant Director, Program for Writing and Rhetoric Director, CU Boulder Writing Center Office: Environmental Design 1B63 Telephone: 303-735-5693 E-mail: steve.lamos@colorado.edu

---

Research and teaching interests

Composition theory and pedagogy; "basic writing" theory and praxis; scientific writing instruction; ethnographic writing; rhetorical theory

Education

Ph.D., University of Illinois, 2004
M.A., University of Illinois, 1997
B.A., University of Illinois, 1995

Publications

Essays

“Language, Literacy, and the Institutional Dynamics of Racism: Late-1960s Writing Instruction for ‘High-Risk’ African American College Students at One Predominantly-White University.” College Composition and Communication, forthcoming

“Basic Writing, CUNY, and 'Mainstreaming': (De)Racialization Reconsidered.” Journal of Basic Writing 19 (2000): 22-43

Current projects

A book on the recent history of writing instruction programs for non-white students in the U.S.

---