Profile for Darci Thoune
Specialty area(s)
Writing Program Administration, First-Year Writing, Composition Pedagogy, Feedback, Assessment, and Rhetoric Studies.
Brief biography
Growing up, I was a military kid who found constancy in school and reading. Constancy turned into love and led me to a career where I get to be in school forever.
Current courses at UWL
ENG 110--College Writing II
ENG 413--Capstone Research Project
Education
Post-Doctoral Fellow in Writing Program Administration
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 2008.
Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 2006.
Dissertation: “‘Act Your Age’: Age, Gender, and Instructor Identity in the Composition Classroom.”
Graduate Certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 2005.
M.A. in Literature
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 2001.
Thesis: “‘This Cathexis Between’: Maxine Hong Kingston, Adrienne Rich and Julia Kristeva on Motherhood.”
B.A. in English and French
Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI, 1996.
Career
Teaching history
Undergraduate
- ENG 100, Writing Workshop
- ENG 110/112, College Writing
- ENG 200, Literature and the Human Experience
- ENG 303, Special Topics in Writing and Rhetoric
- ENG 313, Writing, Genre, and Style
- ENG 333, Introduction to Writing and Rhetoric Studies
- ENG 342, The Essay
- ENG 375, Writing Research
- ENG 413, Capstone Research Project
- ENG 497, Senior Seminar in Rhetoric and Writing
- FYS 100, First-Year Seminar
Graduate
- ENG 500, Composition Pedagogy
