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Areas of Expertise

Composition theory and history; Pedagogy; Image-text rhetorics; Revision; Metaphor in/as pedagogy; The essay genre; Writing program administration; Immigration in literacy narratives; Relationships between composition and literary studies.

Degrees

PhD, University of Pittsburgh

Professional Publications & Contributions

• “Writing Sources: Interrupting Three ‘Residual’ Assumptions at the Threshold between Reading and Writing.” Reader: Essays in Reader-Oriented Theory, Criticism, and Pedagogy. 61 (Spring 2011): 50 – 86. Print.
• “Unsettling a Metaphor We Teach By: A Hybrid Essay on WAC Students as ‘Immigrants.’” The WAC Journal: Writing Across the Curriculum 21 (Nov. 2010): 53 - 67. Print.
• “Learning from Our Resourcefulness: Paulo Freire as Source and Figment of Composition Theory.” JAC: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, Culture, and Politics. Forthcoming.
• “Reading Yourself: Revision as Ventriloquism.” Pedagogy. Forthcoming.
• “Immigrating to Composition: Identity and Intellectual Inheritance.” Writing on the Edge. Forthcoming.
• “Addressing Plagiarism in a Digital Age.” Co-authored with Eleanor Kutz, Wayne Rhodes and Vivian Zamel. Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge. 9.3 (Summer 2011): 15 – 35. Print.
• "The Retrospective Essay: ‘Making Progress’ in a Writing Class." Rpt. from 1993. Resources for Teaching "Ways of Reading: An Anthology for Writers," 9th ed. Ed. David Bartholomae and Anthony Petrosky. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's P, 2011. 386 - 94. Print.
• "Pedagogy." Translation [from the French] of Gabriel Compayré's "Pédagogie." (1910) in Pedagogy: Disturbing History, 1818 – 1929. Ed. Mariolina R. Salvatori. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1996. 30 - 34. Print.
• Writing with Internet Sources. Co-authored with Nancy Sommers, et al. Cambridge: Harvard University, 2006 & 2007. Print.
• “Dreams of Home.” Lux. 2.2 (Spring 2008): 26 – 27. Print.

Additional Information

BOOK REVIEWS

Review of Notes on the Underground: An Essay on Technology, Society, and the
Imagination, by Rosalind Williams.  Wilson Library Bulletin 64.10 (June 1990): 138 - 39.  Print.

Review of Foe, by J.M. Coetzee. The Scriblerian 22.2 (Spring 1990): 228.  Print.

Review of Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology and Ideologies of Western Dominance, by Michael Adas. Wilson Library Bulletin 64.4 (Dec. 1989): 130.  Print.

Review of The Politics of Literary Reputation: The Making and Claiming of ‘St. George’
Orwell, by John Rodden. Wilson Library Bulletin 64.2 (Oct. 1989): 126.  Print.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

COURSES TAUGHT AT UMASS BOSTON

English 602 Graduate Seminar: Graphic Novels and Illustrated Fiction
English 668 Graduate Seminar: Perspectives on Composition
English 610 Graduate Seminar: The Teaching of Composition
English 698 Graduate Seminar: Composition Intern Training
English 696 Graduate Independent Study: George Orwell’s Fiction and Nonfiction
English 306: Advanced Nonfiction Writing
English 200: Understanding Literature
English 379: Photo-Essays, Graphic Novels and Illustrated Stories
English 101: Freshman English
English 456: Independent Study: Food Writing

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Professor Sutherland has been a featured speaker at the National Writing Across the Curriculum Conference and an invited speaker at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, The Harvard University Expository Writing Teaching Colloquium, The University of Connecticut Composition Conference, and other venues.  He has led workshops for writing teachers at Northeastern University, Boston University, the Southeastern Massachusetts College Writing Conference, and elsewhere.