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Geoffrey Sirc

Geoffrey Sirc

612-625-0134
Department of English 210J Lind Hall

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • composition theory and pedagogy
  • technology/writing
  • visual arts and art theory
  • hip hop
  • the modernist era
  • Rhetoric and composition
  • Writing instruction
  • Trends in writing instruction since the 1960s
  • Writing technology
  • Textual forms of blogging

Educational Background

  • Ph.D.: Composition Theory, University of Minnesota, 1985.

Publications

  • “Writing Classroom as Factory.” . Sirc, Geoffrey Michael, Author, 2008.
  • “Proust, Death, and Hip Hop in First-Year Composition.”: Sirc, Geoffrey Michael, Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2006.
  • “Composition’s Ete/Orpheus’s Gaze/Cobain’s Journals”: Sirc, Geoffrey Michael, Composition Studies, 33:1 , 2005.
  • Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. Sirc, Geoffrey Michael, Utah State University Press, Co-Author, 2004.
  • English Composition as a Happening. Sirc, Geoffrey Michael, Utah State University, Author, 2002.
  • "The Difficult Politics of the Popular." : Sirc, Geoffrey Michael, Journal of Advanced Composition, 21.2 , 2001.
  • "Virtual Urbanism.": Sirc, Geoffrey Michael, Computers & Composition, 18.1 , 2001.

Awards

  • Outstanding Book Award by Computers and Composition, 2007
  • Multicultural Teaching and Learning Fellowship , 2007
  • Horace T. Morse-Minnesota Alumni Association Distinguished Teaching Award, 1995
  • Ross Winterowd Award for the most outstanding book published in Composition theory, 2003

Courses Taught

  • Seminar in Language, Rhetoric, Literacy, and Composition
  • University Writing and Critical Reading
  • Literature of Public Life
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