 Professor of English and Ineva Baldwin Chair of Arts and SciencesDirector, Program for Writing and Rhetoric Office: Environmental Design 1B28B Telephone: 303-735-5055 E-mail: Patricia.Sullivan@colorado.edu |
Research and teaching interests
Composition theory and practice, rhetoric, American literature, creative writing (nonfiction)
Education
Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1988
M.A., University of Utah, 1981
B.A., University of Utah, 1977
Publications
Books
Co-ed. with Donna J. Qualley, Pedagogy in the Age of Politics. NCTE, 1994
Ed. with Gesa E. Kirsch, Methods and Methodology in Composition Research. Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1992
Essays
"Composing Culture: A Place for the Personal." College English, 66,1 (September 2003): 41-54
"In Memoriam: Robert J. Connors, 1951-2000." JAC, Journal of Composition Theory 20.3 (2000): 483-85
"Passing: A Family Dissemblance." Coming to Class: Pedagogy and the Social Class of Teachers. Ed. Alan Shepard, John McMillan, and Gary Tate. Boynton/Cook, 1998
"Ethnography and the Problem of the 'Other'." Ethics and Representation In Qualitative Studies of Literacy. Ed. Gesa Kirsch and Peter Mortensen. NCTE, 1997
"Social Construction and Literacy Studies." College English 57.8 (1995): 950-59
"The Myth of the Independent Scholar." Writing With. . . : New Directions in Collaborative Teaching, Learning, and Research. Ed. David Bleich, Thomas Fox, and Sally Reagan. SUNY Press, 1994
"Charting a Course in First-Year English." Nuts & Bolts: A Practical Guide to Teaching College Composition. Ed. Thomas Newkirk. Boynton/Cook, 1993
"Feminism and Methodology in Composition Studies." Methods and Methodology in Composition Research. Ed. Patricia A. Sullivan and Gesa E. Kirsch. Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1992
"Writing in the Graduate Curriculum: Literary Criticism as Composition." Journal of Advanced Composition 11.2 (1991): 283-299. Rpt. in The Kinneavy Papers: Theory and the Study of Discourse. Ed. Lynn Worsham, Sidney I. Dobrin, and Gary Olson. SUNY Press, 2000
With Andrea A. Lunsford, "Who Are 'Basic Writers'?" Research in Basic Writing. Ed. Michael Moran and Martin Jacobi. Greenwood Press, 1990
"Writers' Conceptions of Audience in Graduate Literature Courses." Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy 21 (1989): 22-34
Selected honors and awards
Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Liberal Arts, Univ. of New Hampshire, 2001
Faculty Scholarship, HERS Management Institute for Women in Higher Education at Wellesley College, 2001-02
Outstanding Faculty Award, President’s Commission on the Status of Women, Univ. of New Hampshire, 1997
Finalist, CCCC Book Award, for Methods and Methodology in Composition Research, 1993
James L. Kinneavy Award for most outstanding article in the Journal of Advanced Composition, 1991