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English Department
Stony Brook University
Humanities Bldg.
Stony Brook, NY
11794-5350
Phone: 631.632.7400

Patricia A. Dunn

Associate Professor of English. Doctor of Arts. The University at Albany, 1991. Composition and Rhetoric; English Education; Disability Studies.

2082 Humanities; M 2:50 - 3:50,  Th 1:50 - 3:50
631-632-7416
pdunn@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Courses:

Fall 2008
  • Problems in Teaching Writing or Composition (EGL/WRT 592) Th 3:50-6:40
  • Literature of Adolescence (GL 360/ CEJ 552) M 3:50 - 6:50
  • Adolescent Literature (CEJ 552)

Selected Publications:


Books
  • Dunn, Patricia A. Talking, Sketching, Moving: Multiple Literacies in the Teaching of Writing. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Heinemann. 2001.
  • Dunn, Patricia A. Learning Re-Abled: The Learning Disability Controversy and Composition Studies. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Heinemann. 1995.
Articles:
  • Lindblom, Kenneth, and Patricia A. Dunn. “Analyzing Grammar Rants: An Alternative to Traditional Grammar Instruction.” English Journal 95.5 (May, 2006): 71-77.
  • Dunn, Patricia A. and Kenneth Lindblom. "The Roles of Rhetoric in Constructions and Reconstructions of Disability." Rhetoric Review 22.2(April, 2003): 167-174.
  • Dunn, Patricia A. and Kenneth Lindblom. "Why Revitalize Grammar?"  English Journal 92.3 (January, 2003): 43-50.
  • Dunn, Patricia A. and Kathleen Dunn De Mers. "Reversing Notions of Disability and Accommodation: Embracing Universal Design in Writing Pedagogy and Web Space." Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy." 7.1 (Spring 2002). Nominated for "Best Web Text" Award, May 2002.
  • Bruggemann, Brenda Jo,  Linda Feldmeier White, Patricia A. Dunn, Barbara A. Heifferon, and Johnson Cheu. "Becoming Visible: Lessons in Disability." CCC The Journal of the Conference on College Composition and Communication 52.3 (February, 2001): 368--398.
  • Dunn, Patricia A. "Forgotten Elements in Writing Across the Curriculum: Speaking-to-Learn and Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research." Issues in Writing: Education, Government, Arts & Humanities, Business & Industry, Science & Technology 9.1 (Fall/Winter1998): 19-42.
  • Dunn, Patricia A. “Three Comments on ‘Writing Utopias’” Comment and response section of College English 54 (Oct. 1992): 731-33.
 


After teaching in a high school and then in a two-year college for a number of years, I went back for my doctorate and was pulled, irresistibly, into Composition and Rhetoric at The University at Albany. After receiving tenure at Utica College of Syracuse University, where I chaired a committee that founded a Writing Across the Curriculum program, I moved to Illinois State University, where I taught writing, rhetoric, and composition research and theory. It was also at ISU where I began to work with pre-service English teachers. Although I was tenured at ISU, I moved to Stony Brook for the opportunity to work more closely with English majors who planned to be teachers. My publications explore the nexus of composition, rhetoric, English Education, and disability studies. I am especially interested in the role multiple literacies play in the teaching of writing. Currently, I am completing a chapter for a planned 25th anniversary of Stephen M. North’s classic analysis of composition studies, The Making of Knowledge in Composition: Portrait of an Emerging Field (1987). This retrospective volume will be edited by Richard Gebhardt and Lance Massey. My essay is entitled, “Methodological Consciousness, Epistemology, and Contemporary Public Discourse.
Talking, Sketching, Moving: Multiple Literacies and Reconstructions of Disability Learning Re-Abled: The Learning Disability Controversy and Composition Studies