Writing, Literature & Publishing Faculty
John TrimburDirector of the First Year Writing Program and Professor (2007) B.A., Stanford University; M.A., State University of New York, Buffalo; Ph.D., State University of New York, Buffalo John Trimbur is a specialist in composition and writing studies, with interests in cultural studies of literacy and the politics of language in the United States and South Africa. He has published widely on writing theory and has won a number of awards, including the Richard Braddock Award for Outstanding Article (2003) for "English Only and U.S. College Composition," the James L. Kinneavy Award (2001) for "Agency and the Death of the Author: A Partial Defense of Modernism," and the College Composition and Communication Outstanding Book Award (1993) for The Politics of Writing Instruction: Postsecondary. He has also published three textbooks The Call to Write (4th ed. 2008), Reading Culture (6th ed. 2007), and A Short Guide to Writing About Chemistry (2nd ed. 2000) and edited the collection Popular Literacy: Studies in Cultural Practices and Poetics (2001). Previously he was a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Higher Education Development and a Resident Fellow at the Centre for Rhetorical Studies, both at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
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