Christy Friend: Department of English Language and Literature


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Christy Friend Associate Professor Associate Director of First-Year English Office: 410 Humanities Office Building (803) 777-2253 chfriend@mailbox.sc.edu Education Ph.D., University of Texas, 1997 Specialization Areas Composition and Rhetoric Histories of rhetoric and writing instruction Writing program administration Service learning / community literacies Rhetoric and ethics Qualitative research Recent Courses See Course Descriptions for detailed information. ENGL 101 Composition ENGL 387 Introduction to Rhetoric ENGL 460 Advanced Writing ENGL 701a Teaching College Composition ENGL 790 Survey of Composition Studies ENGL 791 Introduction to Research on Written Composition ENGL 796 Teaching Creative Writing in Schools and Community Settings ENGL 890 Curriculum Development in College Writing Programs Current Research Project(s) I’m currently collaborating with university’s Office of Institutional Assessment on a large-scale quantitative study examining how first-year composition students' writing changes during the time they take English 101 and 102 at USC. I’m also hard at work on a new edition of Beyond Words: Reading and Writing in a Visual Age with colleagues John Ruszkiewicz (University of Texas at Austin) and Daniel Anderson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). Also under contract and in progress are a co-authored book introducing non-specialists to the history of composition and rhetoric and new editions of two first-year composition handbooks. Selected Publications *Textbooks* SF Compact Handbook, 2nd ed. Co-authored with John Ruszkiewicz and Maxine Hairston. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2008. The Scott, Foresman Handbook for Writers, 8th ed. Co-authored with John Ruszkiewicz and Maxine Hairston. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2007. SF Express Handbook, 2nd ed. Co-authored with John Ruszkiewicz and Maxine Hairston. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2006. Beyond Words: Reading and Writing in a Visual Age. Co-authored with John J. Ruszkiewicz and Daniel Anderson. New York: Longman, 2006. *Book Chapters* “Merging Academics and Operations in a Statewide University Consortium.” Co-authored with Patricia Jerman, Corinna McLeod, Summer Smith Taylor and Bruce C. Coull. Inside and Out: Universities and Education for Sustainable Development. Eds. R. Forrant and L.Silka. Amityville, NY: Baywood P, 2006. 135-148. “It’s a Two-Way Street: White Faculty Members Mentoring African American Graduate Students in Composition and Rhetoric.” Co-authored with Terry Carter, Rose Metts, and Nancy Thompson. Culture Shock and the Practice of Profession: Training Future Faculty in Composition and Rhetoric. Eds. Virginia S. Anderson and Susan Romano. Cresskill, NH: Hampton P, 2005. 239-263. "Seeing Ourselves as Others See Us: The Feminization of Teaching in Everyday Talk." Teaching Vision: Language and Image in the Reading-Writing Classroom. Eds. Linda Calendrillo et al. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2002. 175-87. *Journal Articles* “Imitations of Battle: Quintilian on the Classroom and the Public Sphere.” Composition Forum 14.1 (Fall 2003/Win. 2004): 1-16. “Course Design: English 890 ‘Teaching Creative Writing’.” Co-authored with Kwame Dawes. Composition Studies 31.2 (Fall 2003): 107-124. Rpt. 2005 in Composition Studies Online Course Designs <http://www.compositionstudies.tcu.edu/coursedesigns/online/31-2/dawes_friend.html> "Merit vs. Diversity? A Simulation Game Introducing Undergraduate Writing Students to Ethical Arguments." Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments 7.2 (Sum. 2002). <http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/7.2/binder.html?sectiontwo/friend> "Argument in a Different Voice: Feminist Ethical Dilemmas in the College Writing Clasroom." Feminist Teacher 14.1 (Win. / Spr. 2002): 50-64. "From the Contact Zone to the City: Iris Marion Young and Composition Theory." jac: A Journal of Composition Theory 19.4 (Fall 1999): 657-78. "Resisting Virtue: Rhetoric, Writing Pedaoggy, and Popular Moral Discourse." Composition Forum 10.1 (Spr. / Sum. 1999): 16-29. "Pirates, Seducers, Wronged Heirs, Poison Cups, Cruel Husbands and Other Calamites: The Roman School Declamations and Critical Pedagogy." Rhetoric Review 17.2 (Spr. 1999): 300-19. "Ethics in the Classroom: A Nondistributive Approach." College English 56 (1994): 548-67. "The Excluded Conflict: The Marginalization of Composition and Rhetoric Studies in Gerald Graff's Professing Literature." College English 54 (1992): 276-86.