Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
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Christine Alfano
Senior Lecturer in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Digital Rhetoric, Rhetoric of Gaming, Visual Rhetoric, Gender and Technology, Writing Program Administration
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Mutallip Anwar
PWR Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
BioMutallip Anwar completed his PhD in Language & Rhetoric at the University of Washington. Prior to joining PWR, he taught college writing courses at the University of Washington and Highline College. His primary teaching and research interests include rhetoric and composition studies, language education, discourse analysis, translation, and AI in education.
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Bruce H Bean
Lecturer, Oral Communication
BioRelevant Experience
20 years: Co-Teaching Public Speaking at Stanford with James Wagstaffe COM 01 & COM 118
Business Experience
Founder and Sole Owner of The Trafton Group, San Mateo CA
Previously with TRI and Cushman & Wakefield, San Mateo CA
Directing, managing, marketing, selling, leasing, and property management for commercial real estate.
Architectural Design
President: Beavers, Bean and Hale Associates Boulder CO Merged with Oz Architecture
Directing, Managing design and planning for financial institutions, corporations and non-profits.
Prior Board Membership
San Mateo Rotary Club - Previous Board Member & Past President
Board President Crystal Springs Uplands School, Hillsborough CA
HIP Housing
HIP Housing San Mateo, CA
Previous Board Member and Board President, Head of Housing Committee: Managing HIP’s property purchases.
Affordable Housing Ventures
Affordable Housing Ventures; Founder
Purchasing naturally occurring affordable housing (NOAH) for non-profits
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Boston MA Graduate Studies in Urban and Regional Planning
University of Colorado Boulder CO Bachelor of Arts
East Asian Studies Foreign Studies: Art and Religion, Kyoto, Japan
References
James Wagstaffe, AMMCG Law, San Francisco CA
Kate Comfort Harr, ED HIP Housing, San Mateo CA
Amy Richards, Retired Head, Crystal Springs Uplands School, Hillsborough CA -
Shaleen Brawn
PWR Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Rhetoric of Science and Technology, Science Communication, Publishing as Process and Institution
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Nissa Ren Cannon
Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research focuses on transatlantic modernism, citizenship, and print culture. My book project, which was chosen for the 2019 Penn State First Book Institute, argues that the bureaucratic and literary documents of interwar itinerancy–including passports, travel ephemera, and newspapers–shape expatriation as a distinct mode of national belonging.
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Tara Dosumu Diener
Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
BioTara received a Ph.D. in Anthropology and History from the University of Michigan in 2016 and a Graduate Certificate in Science, Technology, and Society in 2014. Prior to graduate studies at Michigan, she practiced as a Registered Nurse in obstetrics and pediatrics while earning an M.A. in Bioethics, Humanities, and Society from the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences (CEHLS) at Michigan State University. She has taught courses in creative non-fiction writing, medical, biological, and sociocultural anthropology, international and African studies, global health, political science, and the history of medicine in the US, Western Europe, and sub-Saharan Africa. She is an anthropologist and historian of medicine, maternal and infant health and mortality, global health (non)systems, and nursing ethics and practice. She is proficient in both archival and ethnographic methods and her previous projects have focused on the United Kingdom and Sierra Leone.
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Kevin DiPirro
PWR Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Rhetoric of Performance; Multimodal Presentation; Devised Theatre; Art and Technology
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Erik Ellis
PWR Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: the essay, style, multimodal composition, visual rhetoric, picture books
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Norah Fahim
PWR Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Digital Rhetoric, Narrative Inquiry, Writing Program Administration, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, and Second Language Writing
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Lindsey Felt
PWR Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: 20th and 21st Century American Literature, Disability Studies, Media Culture, Science and Technology Studies, Critical Access Studies, Accessible Arts Curation
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Megan Formato
PWR Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: History of Science and Technology; Literature and Science; Science and Technology Studies; Scientific Writing Practices; Women and Science; Revision Practices; Learning Portfolios; Science Communication
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Thomas Freeland
PWR Advanced Lecturer, Oral Communication
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Theatre (Shakespeare, German Theatre, Shakespeare in German); Critical Theory, Literature in Translation, German Literature, History of the American West, European History, Political Science
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Mark Gardiner
Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Social and Cultural Anthropology, Data Studies, African Studies, Environmental Justice, Race, Critical Science and Technology Studies, Politics, Institutions, International Development
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Alexander Greenhough
Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSpecialization: Film Theory; Film History; Postwar European and American Cinema; Contemporary New Zealand Cinema
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Shannon Hervey-Lentz
PWR Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Rhetoric and Composition Pedagogy, the study of psychology & wellness in rhetorical study, the role of rhetoric in constituting, policing, and navigating bodies.
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Harriett Virginia-Ann Jernigan
Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly Interestssecond language acquisition, learner autonomy; task-, literacy-, and project-based instruction; storytelling, critical race theory (CRT); cultural rhetorics; large language models
Writing across the disciplines; Humanities 2.0; diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in pedagogy; social geography; presentation culture; podcasting and public speaking -
Jennifer Johnson
PWR Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Intersections of Language, Identity and Culture, Sociocultural Studies in Education, Second Language Acquisition Theory and Bilingualism, Multimodal Communication and Theories of Embodiment, Deaf Studies
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Christopher Kamrath
PWR Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSPECIALIZATION: Citizenship and Political Dissent, Media History, Cultural Memory, andWriting technologies
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Hayden Kantor
PWR Advanced Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsFood and agriculture; ethnographic writing; rhetorics of capitalism; ethics of care; culture and history of India and South Asia
