Deborah Minter
202 Andrews Hall
Lincoln, NE 68588-0333
(402) 472-1846 (office)
dminter1@unl.edu
Deborah Minter
Associate Professor and Department Vice Chair
Degrees and institutions granting the degree
- Kalamazoo College, BA
- Georgetown University, MA
- University of Michigan, PhD
Professional Areas of Specialty
Composition, Rhetoric and Literacy Studies. Interests include: rhetorical/discourse analysis, teacher research, and pedagogy.
Courses regularly taught
- Composition Theory & Practice (Eng. 957)
- Rhetorical Theory (4/875)
- Nebraska Writing & Literacy Projects (Eng. 957B & 993A)
- Advanced Composition (354)
- Illness & Health in Literature (210I)
- Composition I (150)
Personal teaching statement
The interests that drive my work as a college English teacher also drive my research. In the classroom as well as my research, I want to join others in examining the relationships between reading, writing and agency: How do readers and writers engage authority in acts of reading and writing? How do texts and particular literacy practices acquire authority? How do people (and communities) use writing to intervene in established relationships of power? How do English teachers create classroom spaces where students can examine and explore the production of authority through writing (their own and others')?
Selected publications and/or projects
Composition, Pedagogy and the Scholarship of Teaching (with Amy Goodburn). Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann/Boynton-Cook (2002).
"Concentrating English: Disciplinarity, Institutional Histories, and Collective Identity" (with Amy Goodburn) in Beyond English, Inc.: Discipline and Curriculum for English Studies in the 21st Century. David B. Downing, C. Mark Hurlbert, Paula J. Mathieu, eds. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann/Boynton-Cook (2001).
"Glossing Argument as Cultural Work" (with Amy Goodburn) in It Really Works: A Sourcebook of Ideas from Award-Winning University English Teachers. Patricia Gantt and Lynn Meeks, eds. Norwood, MA: Christopher-Gordon (2003).
"Graduate Education as Education: The Pedagogical Arts of Institutional Critique" (with Virginia Crisco, Chris Gallagher, Katie Hupp Stahlnecker, and John Talbird). Pedagogy 3 (Fall 2003): 359-376.
"Research Shows: A Narrative of Teaching and Learning." Literature and Medicine 21 (Spring 2002): 81-91.
"Learning Literacies" (with Anne Ruggles Gere and Deborah Keller-Cohen). College English Vol. 57, No. 6 (October 1995): 21-39.
