Chris Gallagher

Associate Professor and Coordinator of Composition

Degrees and institutions granting the degree

• Merrimack College, BA
• University of New Hampshire, MA
• SUNY-Albany, PhD

Professional areas of specialty

Composition and Rhetoric; Literacy Studies; Pedagogy; School Reform; Assessment and Accountability

Courses regularly taught

First-Year Writing, Composition Theory and Practice, Literacy and Community Issues, Rhetoric and Society, Rhetorical Theory

Selected Publications and/or project

Books:

Radical Departures: Composition and Progressive Pedagogy. National Council of Teachers of English, 2002.

"Reclaiming Assessment: A Better Alternative to the Accountability Agenda," Heinemann, 2007.

Articles:

"We Compositionists: Toward Engaged Professionalism." JAC, 25.1 (2005): 75-99.

"Turning the Accountability Tables: Ten Progressive Lessons from One 'Backward' State." Phi Delta Kappan. 85.5 (January 2004): 352-360.

"Graduate Education as Education: The Pedagogical Arts of Institutional Critique." Virginia Crisco, Chris Gallagher, Deborah Minter, Katie Stahlnecker, and John Talbird. Pedagogy. 3:3 (Fall 2003): 359-376.

"Teacher Narratives as Interruptive: Toward Critical Colleagueship" (Gallagher, Peter Gray, and Shari Stenberg). Symploke. 10:1-2 (Fall 2002): 32-51.

"If This Were Not a Collage: A Collage." Writing on the Edge. 11.2. Spring 2001. 33-42.

"Just Give Them What They Need: Transforming the Transformative Intellectual." Composition Studies. 28.2 (Fall 2000): 61-83.