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Cynthia Nearman
English and Creative Writing Department

Cynthia Nearman

Associate Professor for English


Office

Archdale-105
+1 (336) 3162273
cnearman@guilford.edu

Education


University of North Carolina Greensboro, Ph.D., 2002
Rhetoric & Composition
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Master of Art, 1995
English
Wingate University, Bachelor of Art, 1993
English

Selected Scholarship


“One white girl’s failed attempt to un-silence the dialogue.” The Promise and Peril of Writing
Program Administration. Theresa Enos and Shane Borrowman, eds. Parlor Press, 2008.

Identity’s Strategy: Rhetorical Selves in Conversion by Dana Anderson. CHOICE: Current Reviews for
Academic Libraries, July 2008.

“Conferencing” and “Language in the Writing Class.” Writing Matters: A Composition Handbook,
2nd Edition. Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater and Hephzibah Roskelly, eds. Greensboro, NC:
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1999.

Courses Taught


ENG 400: Senior Seminar: David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest
ENG 382: Document Design and Professional Communication
ENG 380: Writing and Persuasion
IDS 403: Culture, Travel, Writing
ENG 282: Journalism
ENG 250: Advanced Composition; Fantasy & Science Fiction Literature
ENG 208: Creative Nonfiction
ENG 205: Introduction to Creative Writing
ENG 200: Introduction to Literary Studies
ENG 151: Historical Perspectives: Racism & Education in the U.S. (1950-1985)
ENG 102: College Reading and Writing, “Many Voices” (emphasis varies)
ENG 101: Writing Seminar