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Erin Workman

  • e.workman@depaul.edu
  • Associate Professor, Director First-Year Writing
  • PhD, English Rhetoric & Composition, Florida State University
  • Writing, Rhetoric and Discourse
  • Phone: 773.325.2186
  • SAC 358

Research Interests

Writing development and transfer; equity-minded writing pedagogy and program administration; writing instruction and teacher-training; writing studies research methods and methodologies; race, disability, and institutional change

Recent Scholarship

  • Workman, E., Crozier, M., & Vandenberg, P. (2023). Writing standpoint(s): Institution, discourse, and method. In M. LaFrance & M. Nicolas (Eds.), Institutional Ethnography as Writing Studies Practice (pp. 81-96). The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado. https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2023.2029​
  • Workman, E., Vandenberg, P., & Crozier, M. (2021). Drafting pandemic policy: Writing and sudden institutional change. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 35(1), pp. 140-146. https://doi.org/10.1177/1050651920959194

  • Workman, E. (2020). Visualizing writing development: Mapping writers' conceptions of writing through the lifespan." In. T. Phillips & R. Dippre (Eds.), Approaches to Lifespan Writing Research: Generating an Actionable Coherence (pp. 211 – 224). The WAC Clearinghouse. DOI: 10.37514/10.37514/PER-B.2020.1053.2.13​

  • Yancey, K. B., Cirio, J., Naftzinger, J., & Workman, E. (2020). Notebooks, annotations, and tweets: Defining diverse everyday texts through a common lens." South Atlantic Review, 85(2), pp. 7 – 34. ​

Courses Recently Taught

  • WRD 103: Composition & Rhetoric I
  • WRD 104: Composition & Rhetoric II
  • WRD 209: Genre and Discourse
  • WRD 309: Writing a Socially-Just DePaul
  • WRD 540: Teaching Writing​
  • WRD 550: Critical Writing Pedagogy: Race, Disability, & Institutional Change
  • WRD 551: Teaching Assistantship Practicum 

Committees

  • First-Year Program Committee
  • Liberal Studies Program Advisory Chairs Committee​
  • Liberal Studies Council, LSP Core Representative 
  • LAS Teaching, Learning, and Assessment Committee
  • FC Committee on Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity
  • Portfolio Community of Practice
  • The Women's Center Advisory Board

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