People
Faculty
John Tassoni
Titles
- Professor
- Director of Liberal Education
Education
- Ph.D., Literature and Criticism, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 1992
- M.A. Villanova University
- B.A. Widner University
Teaching Interests
- Composition
- Sexuality in Literature
- Pedagogy Theory
Research Interests
- History of basic writing at Miami University
- A studio approach to composition
- Open-Access Education
Selected Publications
- Composing Other Spaces. Co-edited with Douglas Reichert Powell. Hampton Press, 2008.
- Sharing Pedagogies: Students and Teachers Write About Dialogic Practices. Boynton/Cook, 1997.
- Blundering for a Change: Errors and Expectations in Critical Pedagogy. Boynton/Cook, 2000.
- “Forty-minute Drive to the Main Campus: Teaching for and from Rhetoric and Composition’s Invisible Borderlands.” Culture Shock and the Practice of Profession: Training the Next Wave in Rhetoric and Composition. Eds. Susan Romano and Virginia Anderson. Hampton, 2005.
- “Deep Response: An Ecofeminist, Dialogical Approach to Introductory Literature Courses,” in Ecofeminist Literary Criticism, ed. P. Murphy and G. Gaard. U of Illinois P, 1998
- “A Course in Crisis: Deconcising College Composition and Creative Writing,” in Teaching Writing Creatively, ed. D. Starkey. Boynton/Cook, 1998.
- “I can step out of myself a little: Feminine Virtue and Female Friendship in Hannah Foster’s Coquette,” in Communication and Women’s Friendship, ed. J. D. Ward and J. Stephens Mink. Bowling Green State University Popular P, 1993.
- “I’m not a poor slave: Student-Generated Curricula and Race Relations,” in Social Issues in the English Classroom, ed. C. M. Hurlbert and S. Totten. NCTE, 1992.
- Articles in Journal of Basic Writing; Writing on the Edge; Teaching English in the Two-Year College; Assessing Writing; Journal of Teaching Writing; JTASS: Journal of Teaching Academic Survival Skills; ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment; Nineteenth Century Studies; Sagetrieb.
- Co-Editor, JTASS: Journal of Teaching Academic Survival Skills. 2003.
Work in Progress
Dr. Tassoni is currently researching the history of writing at Miami University. He is founding co-editor of Open Words: Access and English Studies, sponsored by Prentice Hall.