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Mary Hallet
Academic History
I lived in Denver, Colorado and worked in several non-academic
positions before earning my B.A. in English at Smith
College in Northampton, Massachusetts. At Smith, I tutored
in the writing center, and in 1992 graduated Summa Cum Laude
with several English awards. That fall I enrolled in the Masters
in English Literature program at Boston
College, where I tutored in the writing center and taught
in the Freshman Seminar program as a Teaching Fellow. In preparation
for teaching, I took a course in Composition Theory and Practice
with Writing Program director Lad Tobin; this course and Professor
Tobin's mentorship changed my career path. Having completed
my Masters degree, I enrolled in a PhD program at the University
of New Hampshire (UNH), where I studied Composition and
Rhetoric with Tom Newkirk, Robert Connors, and Patricia Sullivan;
with a second concentration in American Literature and film,
I also worked with Sarah Sherman and John Ernest. Afterwards,
I accepted a tenure track position as Assistant Professor
of English at the University
of Massachusetts Dartmouth in 2000, where I taught writing
and literature, completed my dissertation [entitled Grief
(W)rites: Composing Loss in the Composition Classroom],
and received my PhD from UNH in 2000. After directing the
Writing Program at UMassD, in 2003 I began at Long
Island University Brooklyn (LIU) as Director of Writing.
At LIU, I have taught classes in the core English Composition
sequence and independent studies in American literature. In
the spring of 2005, I will teach English 172 (Contemporary
Rhetorical Theory), an upper division course in our new undergraduate
Writing and Rhetoric concentration. Currently, I chair the
Writing Program Committee, serve on the University Faculty
Informational Technology Committee, and work with WAC director
William Burgos to develop a program of electronic writing
portfolios across the curriculum; I am also on the committee
for the new undergraduate Writing and Rhetoric concentration.
In addition, I am an avid fan of Magic
Eye art.
Courses Taught at LIU
English 13 (English Composition-developmental writing)
English 16 (English Composition)
English 63 (Survey of American Literature I)
English 172 (Contemporary Rhetorical Theory)
Memberships in Professional Organizations
College
Composition and Communication (CCC)
Council of
Writing Program Administrators (WPA)
Modern Language Association
(MLA)
National Council of Teachers
of English (NCTE)
Rhetoric Society of
America (RSA)
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