Denise K. Comer

Denise Comer is an Assistant Professor of the Practice of Writing Studies and Director of First-Year Writing at Duke University. She teaches theme-based first-year writing seminars on such areas of inquiry as illness narratives, civic engagement, and travel writing. She also teaches a first-year writing MOOC through Duke University and Coursera: English Composition I: Achieving Expertise. Her scholarship, which has been published in such journals as Pedagogy, Writing Program Administrators Journal, and Composition Forum, explores writing pedagogy, writing program administration, and the intersections between technology and the teaching of writing. She has recently co-authored (with Barbara Gina Garrett) It's Just a Dissertation: The Irreverent Guide to Transforming Your Dissertation from Daunting to Doable to Done (Fountainhead Press, 2014), and also has a textbook about writing forthcoming: Writing in Transit (Fountainhead Press, 2014). She lives in North Carolina with her husband and their three children.