Susan Romano
Assistant Professor of English
University of New Mexico
sromano@unm.edu
 

Teaching
At the University of New Mexico Albuquerque I teach courses in the professional writing strand of the English department.

Fall 2001 Courses

Introduction to Professional Writing
Visual Rhetoric

Before 2000
Before coming to UNM I directed the composition program at the University of Texas at San Antonio and taught graduate courses in composition theory and undergraduate courses in advanced writing.

Spring 2001 Courses
Introduction to Professional Writing
Professional Writing: Ethics

Researching, Writing, Publishing
My professional training is in rhetoric and composition (Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin), with particular emphasis on the pedagogies of online teaching. I've written about gender and ethnicity in online environments, about the early days of networked writing instruction, about women and technology, about writing program administration, and about Internet literacies of middle school children in northern Mexico. My current research initiates inquiry into a Mexico-centered rhetorical tradition: the religious and secular educational initiatives, the technologies of their transmission north, and their permutations and sedimentation in the southwest borderlands.

I'm also co-editing with Virginia Anderson a collection of essays that examines the future of doctoral education in rhetoric and composition. Call For Proposals

I just finished co-authoring a textbook entitled Writing in an Electronic World with Beth Kolko and Alison Regan. You can examine the website as soon as it's up.

Links to publications
The Egalitarianism Narrative: Whose Story, Which Yardstick?"
Writerly Readers: Close Readings of Close Relationships
Print Publications
Work in Progress
Dissertation: Commited to Writing: A History of Writing in Early Networked Classrooms


Turtles, Talavera, and Traveling Exhibits

The Turtles
The Talavera
Current Exhibits: Wedding Photos