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 Associate Professor of English
Office: Fretwell 260B
Phone: 704.687.4210
Email:
Education
- Ph. D., Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 1988
- Post-M.A. Study, University of California, Berkeley, CA; 1978
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA 1977-78
- M.A. University of Maryland, College Park, MD 1971
- B.A. Kean University , Union , NJ (1969)
Areas of Interest
I am currently doing research on Program assessment as a mode of inquiry/research. I am always interested in better ways to teach, and am looking at writing and multi-modality. I bring my experience to many service projects at university, state, and national levels.
Selected Publications
Morgan, Meg, Kim Stallings, and Julie Townsend. Reading and Writing Arguments about Literature: Turning In/Turning Out. Upper Saddle River , NJ : Prentice Hall, 2006.
Morgan, Meg. Instructor's Guide for Strategies for Reading and Arguing about Literature . Prentice Hall, 2007.
Morgan, Meg. “The GTA Experience: Grounding, Practicing, Evaluating, and Reflecting. ” The Writing Program Administrator's Resource :A Guide to Reflective Institutional Practice. Ed. Stuart C. Brown and Theresa Enos. Mahwah , NJ : Erlbaum, 2002: 393-410.
Yancey, Kathleen Blake and Meg Morgan. “Reflective Essays, Curriculum, and the Scholarship of Administration: Notes towards Administrative Scholarly Work.” The Writing Program Administrator as Researcher: Inquiry in Action and Reflection. Eds. Shirley K. Rose and Irwin Weiser. Portsmouth , NH : Boynton-Cook, 1999: 81-94.
Morgan, Meg. "The Crazy Quilt of Writing Across the Curriculum: Achieving WAC Program Assessment." WAC and Program Assessment: Diverse Methods of Evaluating Writing Across the Curriculum Programs. Eds. Kathleen Yancey and Brian Huot. Greenwich , CT : Ablex, 1997: 141-158.
Allen, Nancy, Dianne Atkinson, Meg Morgan et al. "What Experienced Collaborators Say About Collaborative Writing." Journal of Business and Technical Communication 1. 2 (1987): 70-90. Reprinted in Central Works in Technical Communication. Johndan Johnson Eilola and Stuart Selber, eds. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Selected Presentations
Technical Communication Pre-Conference Workshop, Facilitator, CCCC, New York , March 2007
“MBA Communications: Practices and Challenges,” Thailand TESOL/Pan- Asian Consortium International Conference: 2007 , 26-28 January 2007
“Writing Centers and Writing Across the Curriculum,” University of Cologne , Germany , May 2006
“Crossing Borders from WPA to Technical Writing Administration,” CPTSC, Clarkson University , Potsdam , NY October 2003
“International Technical Communication: New Questions for a New Time,” International Learning Conference, Havana , Cuba 2004
“Placing up: Placing Students into Accelerated Writing Classes,” WPA, Salt Lake City, Utah , July 2002 February 2001
“Program Assessment, Teaching Assistant Training & Writing Faculty Development: Inter-links for Quality,” NCTE, Utrecht , The Netherlands , August 2000
“FYC, WAC, and Program Assessment: How Faculty Outside English Re/View First Year Composition,” WPA , July 2000. (with Kathleen Yancey)
Grants
Fulbright Scholars Program 2007 (Pending). Application to work with faculty at the University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
Courses Taught
Undergraduate Courses:
- ENGL 5143 Editing Technical Documents
- ENGL 4180 Theories of Technical Communication:
- ENGL 2100 Writing About Literature,
- ENGL 4204 Expository Writing:
Graduate Courses:
- ENGL 6116 Introduction to Technical Communication
- ENGL 5204 Expository Writing
- ENGL 5180 Theories of Technical communication
- ENGL 5181 Editing Technical Documents
- ENGL 6195 Teaching College English
- ENGL 6062 History of Rhetorical Thought
- ENGL 6062 Introduction to Composition Studies
- ENGL 5400 Practicum in Tutoring
- ENGL 6062 Readings in Writing
- ENGL 6008 Writing Program Administration
Professional Appointments
Associate Professor of English, UNC Charlotte 1987-Present
Instructor in English, George Mason University 1971-1975
Administrative Appointments
Departmental
- Director, Rhetoric and Writing Program 1994-2003
- Coordinator, Technical/Professional Writing program 2003-2005
Selected University
- President of the Faculty, 2006-2007
- Chancellor's Budget Planning Committee, 2006-2007
- Chair, Provost Comprehensive Evaluation Committee 2007
Selected State/National
- Bridges Leadership for Women Executive Committee, 2005-2007
- UNC Faculty Assembly, 2002-2008
- Carolinas WPA 2001-Present
- Council of Writing Program Administrators Executive Committee
Awards
Finalist, 1997 Nationsbank Award for Teaching Excellence, September 1997
Selected Participant, Bridges: Academic Leadership for Women, UNC Chapel Hill, 1998 |
