Michelle Comstock, Assistant Professor, Denver Writing Project Director

Regularly Offered Courses

• ENGL 1020: Composition I
• ENGL 2030: Composition II
• ENGL 3084: Advanced Composition-Multimedia Writing
• ENGL 5150: Critical Inquiry and Classroom Research
• ENGL 5913: Practicum in Language and Rhetoric
• ENGL 6002: Rhetorical Theory and Teaching of Writing
• ENGL 6100: Gender, Race, Class, and Teaching of Writing

 

Recent Publications

Comstock, Michelle R. "Writing Programs as Distributed Networks: A Materialist Approach to University-Community Digital Media Literacy." Community Literacy Journal. Forthcoming.

Comstock, Michelle and Mary E. Hocks. "Voices in the Cultural Soundscape: Sonic Literacy in Composition Studies." Computers and Composition Online. Forthcoming.

Comstock, Michelle R. and Sarah Shirazi. "Community Digital Media Literacy Project." Computers and Composition Online 5: http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/virtualc.

"Writing Vicariously:  The Politics of Presence in the Distance Learning Classroom." Currents in Electronic Literacy 8: http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/currents/fall04/.

Review of Critical Literacy in a Digital Era by Barbara Warnick. JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory. Fall (2003):  449-55.

“Grrrl Zine Networks:  Re-Composing the Spaces of Authorship, Gender, and the Counter-Cultural.”  JAC:  A Journal of Composition Theory. Spring (2001):  382-409.

 “Virtually Out: The Emergence of a Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay Youth Cyberculture.” (with J. Addison)  Generations of Youth.  Ed. Joe Austin and Michael Willard. New York: New York UP, 1998.  367-378.

Works in Progress

Comstock, Michelle R., Lilian Brannon, and Mary Ann Cain. Breathing Space: Composing Public Places for Writing and Teaching.  Partial Manuscript under revision for NCTE Press.