Geoffrey Sirc

• Educational Background & Specialties
• Publications
• Awards
• Courses

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

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

Specialties

• Technology/writing
• Rhetoric and composition
• Writing instruction
• Trends in writing instruction since the 1960s
• Writing technology
• Textual forms of blogging
• Composition theory and pedagogy
• Visual arts and art theory
• Hip hop
• The modernist era

Publications

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Publications

• “Composition’s Ete/Orpheus’s Gaze/Cobain’s Journals“: Sirc, Geoffrey, Composition Studies, 33:1, 2005.
• English Composition as a Happening. Utah State University, Sirc, Geoffrey, 2002.
• Writing New Media: Theory and Applications for Expanding the Teaching of Composition. Utah State University Press, Sirc, Geoffrey, 2004.
• Writing Classroom as Factory : Sirc, Geoffrey, Composition Studies, 36(1), 2008.
• “Proust, Death, and Hip Hop in First-Year Composition.“: Sirc, Geoffrey, Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2006.
• "The Difficult Politics of the Popular." : Sirc, Geoffrey, Journal of Advanced Composition, 21.2, 2001.
• "Virtual Urbanism.": Sirc, Geoffrey, Computers & Composition, 18.1, 2001.
• Parade Notes: Sirc, Geoffrey, Rhetoric Review, 32.1, 2012.
• Writing in the Post-‘Man-of-Letters’ Modern World: Sirc, Geoffrey, College Composition and Communication, 60(4), 2009.

Awards

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Awards

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

Courses

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Courses

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