Rita J. Malenczyk

Biography

Dr. Malenczyk is a scholar of writing program administration and writing center studies who earned her MA in English from Washington University in St. Louis and her PhD in English from New York University. She has directed the writing program at Eastern since 1994 and is a past president of the national Council of Writing Program Administrators.

Research Interests

• Writing program administration
• Writing center studies
• Rhetoric of crime and crime fiction

Teaching Interests

• College Writing
• Introduction to Writing Studies
• Rhetoric of Crime

Publications

With Susan Miller-Cochran, Elizabeth Wardle, and Kathleen Blake Yancey, eds. Composition, Rhetoric, and Disciplinary. Utah State University Press, 2018.

With Neal Lerner and Elizabeth H. Boquet. "Learning from Bruffee: Collaboration, Students, and the Making of Knowledge in Writing Administration." In Malenczyk et al., eds., Composition, Rhetoric, and Disciplinarity, Utah State University Press, 2018.

"'I Thought I'd Put That in to Amuse You:' Tutor Reports as Organizational Narrative." Writing Center Journal 33.1 (Spring 2013).