Shirley K Rose

I am a Professor in the English Department at Purdue and am Immediate Past President of the Council of Writing Program Administrators.

During the Fall 2008 semester, I am teaching Introduction to Composition Theory, a core course in Purdue's graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition. I am also mentoring our first-year cohort of R&C graduate students as they teach their first semester in the program in Introductory Composition at Purdue (ICaP).

In Fall of 2007, I was on sabbatical leave and in Spring of 2008 I lead a seminar in Writing Program Administration and taught our core course "Issues in Composition Studies: Modern Period."

I recently taught an interdisciplinary seminar in "Rhetorics of the Lost Archives: Research, Theory, Practice." Seminar members worked with the John T. McCutcheon Cartoons in Purdue University Archives and Special Collections. In Spring 2006, with the support of a Study in a Second Discipline Fellowship, I worked with Purdue Archivist Sammie Morris to learn archival methodologies. For my fellowship project, I processed and created a finding aid for the James Berlin Papers.

In my most recent term as Director of Introductory Compositon at Purdue (Fall 2002-Spring 2005), we launched a new First-Year Composition Curriculum for which ICaP won a CCCC Writing Program Excellence Award in 2007.

I am a Peer Reviewer for the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Schools and Colleges and have provided consultations and evaluations of writing programs for a variety of colleges and universities.

With Irwin Weiser, I am currently editing a forthcoming collection, Going Public: The WPA as Advocate for Engagement.

My in-print publications on writing program administration, citation studies, and gender issues in composition studies include articles in College English, College Composition and Communication, and Rhetoric Review in addition to numerous chapters in edited collections. With Irwin Weiser, I have edited two collections of essays, The Writing Program Administrator as Researcher: Inquiry in Action and Reflection (Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 1999) and The Writing Program Administrator as Theorist (Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 2002). A copy of my curriculum vita is available at this URL: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~roses/rosevita