Justin Bain, A.B.D., Writing Center Director

Education

A.B.D. Syracuse University, New York
Composition and Cultural Rhetoric (CCR)

M.A. California State University, Fresno
English: Emphasis in Composition Theory

B.A. California State University, Fresno
English Literature

Teaching and Research Areas:

• Composition Theory and Pedagogy
• Literary Theory/Critical Theory
• History of Rhetoric
• Social Class, Literacy, and Work
• Basic Writing/Composition
• Writing Center Theory and Administration
• Interdisciplinary Theories of Social Space
• Postmodernism/Poststructuralism
• Creative Nonfiction Assessment and Evaluation

Recent Publications:

"Students and Authors in Writing Centers." Authorship in Composition Studies. Ed. Tracy Hamler Carrick and Rebecca Moore Howard. The Wadsworth Series in Composition Studies. Boston: Thomson Wadsworth, 2006.

"Coming into the Field: Intersections of the Personal and the Professional in Graduate Student and Faculty Narratives." Co-authored with Susan M. Adams, Damian Baca, Paul Butler, Amy E. Robillard, and Eileen E. Schell. Dialogue: A Journal for Writing Specialists 8.1 (2002). 5-34.