Jason Courtmanche

Assistant Professor in Residence

Director, Connecticut Writing Project

Assistant Professor in Residence; Director of Connecticut Writing Project and Assistant Coordinator of Early College Experience English. Affiliate Faculty in Curriculum and Instruction, Neag School of Education.  Storrs.

Specialties: Rhetoric and Composition (The Teaching of Writing), Teacher Education (Literacy, Pedagogy, and Professional Development), and American Literature (Hawthorne and Faulkner).

Current Research: With Tom Deans.  “How Developing a Network of Secondary School Writing Centers Can Enrich University Writing Programs.”  WPA:  Writing Program Administration Spring 2019 (forthcoming).  “Why Read?  A Defense of Reading and the Humanities in a STEM-Centric Era.”  Deep Reading:  Teaching Reading in the Writing Classroom.  Urbana:  NCTE, 2017.  “High School-College Partnerships and the Teaching of Nathaniel Hawthorne.”  Nathaniel Hawthorne in the College Classroom.  Brooklyn:  AMS, 2016.  “Race Adrift.”  What Does It Mean To Be White in America?  New York:  2 Leaf Press, 2016.

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