Erin Workman
BIO
Research Interests
Lifespan writing development; writing studies research methodologies, autoethnography and institutional ethnography; race, disability, and institutional change, antiracist and anti ableist writing pedagogy; curricula, faculty development, and program administration
Recent Scholarship
- Centering positionality in lifespan writing research through institutional & auto/ethnographic methodologies.” Improvisations: Methods and Methodologies and Lifespan Writing Research, (pp. 249-270). The WAC Clearinghouse, 2024.
“Writing standpoint(s): Institution, discourse, and method" (with Peter Vandenberg & Madeline Crozier). Institutional Ethnography as Writing Studies Practice (pp. 81-96). The WAC Clearinghouse; University Press of Colorado, 2023.
“Discourse-Based Interviews in Institutional Ethnography: Uncovering the Tacit Knowledge of Peer Tutors in the Writing Center" (with Madeline Crozier). Composition Forum, 49, 2022.
“Drafting pandemic policy: Writing and sudden institutional change" (with Peter Vandenberg & Madeline Crozier). Journal of Business and Technical Communication, vol. 35, no. 1, 2021, pp. 140-146.
“Visualizing writing development: Mapping writers' conceptions of writing through the lifespan." Approaches to Lifespan Writing Research: Generating an Actionable Coherence (pp. 211-224). The WAC Clearinghouse, 2020.
“The teaching for transfer curriculum: The role of concurrent transfer and inside- and outside-school contexts in supporting students' writing development" (with Kathleen Blake Yancey, Matthew Davis, Kara Taczak, & Liane Robertson). College Composition and Communication, vol. 72, no. 2, 2019, pp. 268-295.
Courses Recently Taught
- WRD 103: Composition & Rhetoric I
- WRD 104: Composition & Rhetoric II
- WRD 209: Genre and Discourse
- WRD 309: Writing a Socially-Just DePaul
- WRD 540: Teaching Writing
- WRD 550: Critical Writing Pedagogy: Race, Disability, & Institutional Change
- WRD 551: Teaching Assistantship Practicum
Selected Professional Activities
Chair, Writing through the Lifespan Standing Group, Conference on College Composition and Communication
Committees
- HUM Representative, LAS Senate
- LAS Alt Representative, Liberal Studies Council
- LAS Representative, Faculty Council Committee on Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity
- WGS Advisory Board