RISA P. GORELICK

Associate Professor/Director of First-Year Writing
B.A., Goucher College;
M.A., Miami University-Ohio;
Ph.D. in English/Rhetoric, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Courses Offered:

• College English

Teaching Interest:

• Composition/Rhetoric (developmental, first-year, and advanced);
• Creative Non-fiction; 
• Service-Learning;  
• Professional/Technical/Business Writing;
• Pre-Service Teacher/Tutor Training;
• Writing-Across-the-Curriculum;
• Writing Program Administrator; 
• Women’s Studies/Women’s Literature

Research Interest:

• Co-editing a book collection titled Foodsumptions: Fun, Games, and the Politics of What We Eat with Lisa DeTora of Lafayette College;
• Service-learning connections to the writing classroom; writing program administration.
• Chair, Research Network Forum at CCCC
  

Recent Publications:

• Gorelick, Risa P. “Exploring the Community in Service-Learning Writing Courses:  A Case Study.”  Readerly/Writerly Texts:  Essays on Literary, Composition, and Pedagogical Theory.  11.1/2 -12.1/2 Double Issue (2006):  69-88.
• “Bayou Jews.” (creative non-fiction) The Louisiana Review 4(Fall/Winter 2004-2005): 155-159.
• “Argument Writing in a Fast Food Nation” at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in San Francisco, CA on March 12, 2009.