Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
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Lisa Marie Swan
Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
BioLisa Swan teaches writing courses. She has served as the PWR 1 Coordinator supporting the curricular, pedagogical, and professional development of the first year writing requirement and developed a summer bridge writing course and a support workshop for students who are first generation college students, from low-income backgrounds, or attended underresourced schools. She holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a specialization in English Education from the University of Maryland, College Park. Previously, she taught at the University of Maryland and Northern Virginia Community College. At Stanford, her writing class themes have focused on educational equity, comics and graphic novels, the future of cities, and student voice. Her research interests include writing studies, composition and reading pedagogies, curriculum design, and qualitative research methods.
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Kathleen Tarr
Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Jurisprudence; Rhetoric and Climate Catastrophe; Strategic Planning in International Relations and Governments; Rhetoric and Global Economy; and Equal Employment Opportunity in the Entertainment Industry
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Peter Tokofsky
Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
BioPeter Tokofsky is a lecturer in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric where he teaches "The Rhetoric of Public Memory." He is also editor-in-chief of coastsidenews.com - a digital news source for the San Mateo County Coast that continues the legacy of the Half Moon Bay Review and the Pacifica Tribune. Tokofsky previously taught in the Department of Germanic Languages and the Folklore and Mythology Program at UCLA. Prior to coming to Stanford he served as senior education specialist at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles where he was responsible for organizing public talks, symposia, and programs for college and university students. He has conducted field research in southwest Germany and published on carnival traditions in Germany and Switzerland.
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Jonah Willihnganz
The Stanford Storytelling Project Manager, Writing and Rhetoric Operations
BioJonah Willihnganz is the Director of the Stanford Storytelling Project, an arts program that explores how story craft and practices can be used to create personal and social change and is the co-founder of the LifeWorks Program for Integrative Learning in the School of Medicine, which teaches students how to build natural capacities through practices from the arts, humanities, psychology, and wisdom traditions. He also co-leads the Dalai Lama Fellowship program at Stanford.
His research focuses on how narrative practices can help deepen capacities such as presence, courage, and empathy, and he has published fiction, essays, and articles on literature and pedagogy. He teaches courses in creative writing, American literature, media studies, and critical theory, and created the first college courses on storytelling in audio media. A long-time contemplative and student of Aikido, he incorporates their practices of into many of his courses, and he helps faculty integrate both narrative and contemplative practices into their courses.
He received a bachelor's degree from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, an MFA in creative writing from Hollins University, and a PhD in English from Brown. He belongs to the communities of the San Francisco Zen Center and Palo Alto Friends (Quakers), is a slow but avid swimmer, and is learning to fly fish. -
Roberta Wolfson
Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly Interests20th and 21st Century Multiethnic U.S. Literatures, Comparative Ethnic Studies, Critical Mixed Race Studies, Racial and Social Justice, Ethnofuturist Speculative Fiction, Popular U.S. Culture, Risk and Security Studies
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Cassie Wright
Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Writing Program Administration; Rhetorical Theory, Writing Studies and Assessment, Critical Discourse Analysis , Sports Rhetorics
