The Writing and Rhetoric Program teaches students to write effectively in academic, professional and community contexts. In our courses, students learn to read actively and reflectively, to think critically, to compose written texts with attention to specific rhetorical contexts and to understand these processes as interdependent activities.
Students learn to plan, draft, and revise with a specific purpose and audience in mind. Working both collaboratively and individually, students learn to write for both traditional print and digital audiences. In our multicultural context in Miami, our courses encourage students to draw on language diversity in their writing and research, with language and multilingualism often a focus of discussion and of course materials.
The Writing and Rhetoric Program serves over 4,000 students each semester, with courses in face-to-face, fully online and hybrid settings. The program offers:
- A strong writing foundation in first-year writing, including specific support for multilingual student writers
- Upper-division courses, including the Certificate in Professional and Public Writing, providing instruction in academic and professional writing in traditional, digital, and multimedia formats
- Graduate instruction including Grant-Writing, Alternative Rhetorics and Teaching Composition
Program Contacts
Writing Program Director
Kimberly L. Harrison
Professor; Director of Composition; Director of the Writing Across [...]
305-919-3035
harrisok@fiu.edu
DM 454A, AC1 371B
Writing Program Associate Directors
Justin R. Grant
Assistant Teaching Professor
305-348-2874
jugrant@fiu.edu
DM 459BCynthia C. Chinelly
Teaching Professor
305-919-5784
chinelly@fiu.edu
AC1 371A
Team
Cayce Wicks
Assistant Teaching Professor; Coordinator for Student Success in the [...]
305-348-2229
cwicks@fiu.edu
DM 466AMing Fang
Associate Teaching Professor
305-348-4584
mifang@fiu.edu
DM 494Maheba Aboulhosn Pedroso
Associate Teaching Professor
305-348-3633
pedrosom@fiu.edu
DM 462BChristine Gregory
Associate Teaching Professor; Director of the Digital Writing Studio
305-348-2874
cgregory@fiu.edu
DM 493B, GL 475A
Faculty
Yasbel Acuna-Borrero
Assistant Teaching Professor
305-348-2874
yfacuna@fiu.edu
PC 246DJacqueline Kemper Amorim
Assistant Teaching Professor
305-348-2874
jamorim@fiu.edu
DM 464CNicholas Jon Anderson
Assistant Teaching Professor
305-348-2874
njanders@fiu.eduKacee L. Belcher
Assistant Teaching Professor
305-348-2874
kbelcher@fiu.edu
DM 453Cynthia C. Chinelly
Teaching Professor
305-919-5784
chinelly@fiu.edu
AC1 371AMichael Creeden
Teaching Professor; Associate Chair, Department of English
305-348-2508
michael.creeden@fiu.edu
DM 454BVernon Guy Dickson
Associate Professor
305-919-5852
vdickson@fiu.edu
AC1 343Jason Lawrence Ehlen
Assistant Teaching Professor
305-348-2874
jehlen@fiu.edu
DM 453Darrel Elmore
Senior Lecturer
305-919-5855, 305-919-5857
delmore@fiu.edu
AC1 388AMing Fang
Associate Teaching Professor
305-348-4584
mifang@fiu.edu
DM 494Paul Feigenbaum
Associate Professor
305-348-2991
pfeigenb@fiu.edu
DM 462DAndrew P. Golden
Associate Teaching Professor
305-348-3368
goldena@fiu.edu
DM 461CJustin R. Grant
Assistant Teaching Professor
305-348-2874
jugrant@fiu.edu
DM 459BChristine Gregory
Associate Teaching Professor; Director of the Digital Writing Studio
305-348-2874
cgregory@fiu.edu
DM 493B, GL 475AKimberly L. Harrison
Professor; Director of Composition; Director of the Writing Across [...]
305-919-3035
harrisok@fiu.edu
DM 454A, AC1 371BVanessa Kraemer Sohan
Associate Professor; Associate Director of the MA in English
305-348-6361
vsohan@fiu.edu
DM 464AWilliam J Lisenbee
Assistant Teaching Professor
305-348-2874
wlisenbe@fiu.edu
PC 246CChristine Martorana
Assistant Teaching Professor
305-348-2874
cmartora@fiu.edu
GL 471Kimberly Ann Miles
Assistant Teaching Professor
305-348-8160
milesk@fiu.edu
DM 467Maheba Aboulhosn Pedroso
Associate Teaching Professor
305-348-3633
pedrosom@fiu.edu
DM 462BWanda Sybil Raiford
Associate Teaching Professor; Director of Liberal Studies
305-348-2865
wraiford@fiu.edu
DM 453Michael Sohan
Associate Teaching Professor
305-348-0664
msohan@fiu.edu
DM 465BLuke Thominet
Assistant Professor
305-348-2203
lthomine@fiu.edu
DM 464BNicholas H. Vagnoni
Associate Teaching Professor
305-919-5857
nvagnoni@fiu.edu
AC1 389ACarolina Villalba
Assistant Teaching Professor
305-348-2874
cvillalb@fiu.edu
DM 461 DJeffrey R. Wehr
Associate Teaching Professor
305-348-4581
jwehr@fiu.edu
DM 493DShelley Dianne Wick
Assistant Teaching Professor
305-348-2874
swick@fiu.edu
DM 453Cayce Wicks
Assistant Teaching Professor; Coordinator for Student Success in the [...]
305-348-2229
cwicks@fiu.edu
DM 466ARuilan Zhao
Assistant Teaching Professor
305-348-2874
rzhao@fiu.edu
DM 453