FACULTY

Assistant Professor Rhetoric and Composition, B.A. Knox College, M.A. University of New Hampshire, Ph.D. Educational Leadership, Colorado State University

At CSU since 1998, Sue was a teaching lecturer in 2000-2001, an administrative lecturer from 2001-2004 and most recently was special lecturer for WAC and the Writing Center, 2005-2007. Today she heads up the GTPathways Writing Integration for core curriculum (general education) courses in the College of Liberal Arts and the College of Natural Sciences.  Prior to teaching at CSU, Sue taught at the United States Military Academy, West Point, where she was Associate Director of Reading and Study Skills. She also  taught at Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY; Front Range Community College, Fort Collins, CO; Oxnard College, Oxnard, CA; Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA, and the University of New Hampshire, Durham.

Sue's research interests are in faculty development, university teaching practices, and writing-across-the-curriculum. Her dissertation explored the value of various forms of reflective personal narrative to the self-directed professional development of beginning college teachers of writing. Sue’s most recent research into faculty development revolves around academic labor issues, examining through narrative inquiry the ways in which non tenure-track faculty describe and analyze their experiences in the professional setting. Sue also currently has a research project related to writing integration in the disciplines. This empirical study will examine the role of assignment, rubric, and direct instruction on both student writing and grader efficiency across several disciplines. Her book, Concepts and Choices for Teaching: Meeting the Challenges of Higher Education, coauthored with Dr. William Timpson, is scheduled for release in late 2008. She has published fiction, popular nonfiction, newspaper columns, and articles on college teaching. She wrote the 2002-2003 New York Times Syllabus for CO150.

Email Address: Sue.Doe@ColoState.edu