Tim Dougherty

Associate Professor of English; Assistant Chair For Students and Student Learning
Main Hall 542
TDougherty@wcupa.edu
610-436-1682

Education

Ph.D., Syracuse University
M.A., University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
B.A. (Creative Writing Focus), The Pennsylvania State University

Interests

Histories of Rhetoric
Cultural Rhetorical Theories
Intersectional Feminist Rhetorics
Critical Ethnic and Settler Colonial Studies
Irish Studies
Labor Issues in Writing Program Administration
Contemplative and Antiracist Writing Pedagogy

Selected Publications

Academic Journals

“Composition as Kairotic Composure .” Co-authored with Kurt Stavenhagen. Across the Disciplines 16.1 (Spring 2019): 66-87.

“The Indianapolis Resolution: Responding to 21st Century Exigencies/Political Economies of Composition Labor.” Co-authored with Anicca Cox, Amy Lynch-Biniek, Michelle LaFrance, & Seth Kahn. College Composition and Communication 68.1 (Fall 2016): 38-67.

“Knowing (Y)Our Story: Practicing Decolonial Rhetorical History.” Enculturation. 21 (April 2016): http://enculturation.net/knowing-your-story

“Lost in TransNation: The Limits to Constitutive Nationalism in the Fenian Movement.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 45.4 (Fall 2015): 346-368. (Winner of RSA’s Kneupper Award for best article in journal)

Book Chapters

“Soundwriting and Resistance: Toward A Pedagogy for Liberation.” Co-Authored with Michael Burns, Ben Kuebrich, and Yanira Rodriguez. SoundWriting Pedagogies. Eds. Kyle Stedman, Courtney Danforth, and Michael J. Faris. Logan, UT: Computers and Composition Digital Press/Utah State University Press. 2018.

“Fired Up: Institutional Critique, Lesson Study, and the Future of Antiracist Writing Assessment .” Co-authored with Michael Burns and Randall Cream. Writing Assessment, Social Justice, and the Advancement of Opportunity. Eds. Mya Poe, Asao Inoue, and Norbert Elliot. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado. 2018. 257-292.

“The JWPA: Caught Between the Promises of Portland and Laramie.” Labored: The State(ment) and Future of Work in Composition. Eds. Randall McClure, Dayna Goldstein, and Michael Pemberton. Parlor Press. 2017.