91福利导航

Michael Rifenburg, Ph.D.

Michael Rifenburg

Professor - English

Co-Director of First-Year Composition / Senior Fellow for Scholarly Writing, CTLL

Phone706-867-2958

Office locationDunlap Hall, 206C,

Area(s) of Expertise: Composition and Rhetoric

Overview

J. Michael Rifenburg, associate professor of English at the University of North Georgia, serves as co-director of First-Year Composition and Senior Faculty Fellow for Scholarly Writing within 91福利导航’s Center for Teaching, Learning, and Leadership. He authored The Embodied Playbook: Writing Practices of Student-Athletes (Utah State University Press, 2018) and co-edited Contemporary Perspectives on Cognition and Writing (WAC Clearinghouse, 2017). His next book, Drilled to Write: A Longitudinal Study of a Cadet at a Senior Military College, is currently under contract.

Courses Taught

  • English 1101: Composition I
  • English 1102: Composition II
  • English 2230: Intermediate Composition
  • English 3120: Introduction to Rhetorical Theory
  • English 4800: Writing for Organizations
  • English 4880: Senior Seminar, Writing & Publication

Education

  • Ph.D., Composition/Rhetoric/Literacy, University of Oklahoma, 2013
  • M.A., Rhetoric and Composition, Auburn University, 2009
  • B.A., English, Georgia College & State University, 2005

Research/Special Interests

Composition pedagogies; writing program administration; longitudinal studies; literacy studies; research methods and methodologies

Publications

. Utah State University Press, an imprint of the University Press of Colorado. 2018. Reviewed in College Composition and Communication, , , , and the .

Co-edited with Patricia Portanova and Duane Roen. Foreword by John R. Hayes and Afterword by Linda Flower. WAC Clearinghouse, Colorado State University Open Press, and University Press of Colorado. 2017.

With Emily Pridgen. International Journal of Students as Partners. 4.2 (2020).

With Kristine Johnson. “Theorizing with Undergraduate Researchers.” Composition Studies. 48.1 (2020): 119-120. Invited piece.

Composition Forum 43, Spring 2020.

To Ensure Warfighting Function: Writing Inside a U.S. Army Brigade Headquarters.” Composition Studies. 47.1 (2019): 117-135.

co-authored with MAJ. Brian Forester. Teaching & Learning Inquiry. 6.1 (March 2018): 52-66.

Journal for the Assembly of Expanded Perspectives on Learning. 22 (Winter 2016-2017): 78-91.

Teaching English in the Two-Year College 44.1 (September 2016): 32-48.

The Writing Center Journal 35.2 (2016): 61-87.

With Lindsey Allgood. Across the Disciplines 28 (Dec. 2015). Web.

Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society 4.2 (2015). Web.

Composition Forum 24 (Feb. 2014). Web.

Curriculum Vitae