3rd Annual University of CaliforniaWriting Conference: Transfer & Transformation: The University Writing Program in the 21st Century
Jenae Cohn
Jenae is a third-year PhD student in the English Department, pursuing a Designated Emphasis in Writing, Rhetoric, and Composition at UC Davis. Her research interests range broadly from digital literacy development to new media theory and science fiction. For the past two years, she has been a co-developer of hybrid and online sections of first-year composition at UC Davis and has served as a Graduate Writing Fellow for the Writing Across the Curriculum program. She presented at last year's Computers and Writing conference on multimodal assessment and will be presenting at this year's CCCC in Indianapolis on digital literacy development and identity construction in first-year composition.
To learn more about Jenae and her work, check out her personal website: www.jenaecohn.net
Katie Arosteguy
Katie teaches upper-division courses in the University Writing Program at UC Davis, including Science Writing, Business Writing, Writing in Education, and Advanced Composition. For three years prior to joining the UWP, she taught all levels of composition, as well as Women’s Studies, for Sacramento City College. She earned undergraduate degrees in English and Biology from UC Davis and completed a secondary teaching credential program in English at CSU, Sacramento, before beginning the Ph.D program in American literature at Washington State. Her publications include articles on the intersections of gender politics and American literature as well as critiques of the representation of motherhood in popular culture. She’ll be giving a talk on multimodal composition in advanced writing classes at the upcoming CCCC conference in Indianapolis.
Katie Rodger
Katie Rodger has been teaching at UC Davis since 2002, and has been a lecturer in the UWP since Spring 2011. Her areas of interest include the intersections of science and writing. For ten years, she researched the life and work of marine ecologist, Ed Ricketts, the model for John Steinbeck's "Doc" in Cannery Row. She published two volumes, a critical edition of Ricketts's letters (U. Alabama P, 2002) and his collected essays (U. California P, 2006). Katie's recent conference presentations include a discussion of her Environmental Writing course at CCCC (spring 2013), where she also spent much of her time attending panels about multimodal composition. In the UWP, Katie regularly teaches Writing in the Sciences (104E), Environmental Writing (102G), and Advanced Composition (101), and has taught Writing for the Health Professions (104F). She joined the Writing Across the Curriculum Workshop Program in 2013.