Christine Abbott

Title: Associate Professor of English; Director of the Writers' Center

Department: English

Colleges and universities attended and degrees received : BA, SUNY-College at Purchase; MA and Ph.D. at the University of Pittsburgh.

Publications:

“Seeing Through Language: Pedagogy as Self and Institutional Critique,” International Journal of the Humanities. Summer 2006.

“Tags, Voice and Performance: Art and the Academy.” Culture and Organization , 12, 1, 2006, pp. 79-90, with Astrid Kersten and Lauren Lampe.

Conference papers:

“Seeing Through Language: Pedagogy as Self and Institutional Critique,” delivered at Columbia University , New York , February 2006.

“Cross Disciplinary Pollinations,” paper delivered at the Art of Management and Organization Conference, Paris , France , September 7, 2004.

“ Sparking Creativity Through Difference,” paper delivered at the March, 2004 CCCC annual convention in San Antonio, Texas.

“Internationalizing the Center: Theorizing from Outside In,” presented at the IWCA-NCPTW 2003 Conference in October, 2003.

“The Untold Story: Repressed Emotion, Concealed Images, and Pretty Pictures,” paper delivered at the Art of Management and Organization Conference, Kings' College, London, England, September 6, 2002.

“It Matters Where You Live: Reading the Traces of the Street in the Classroom,” paper delivered at the 2002 CCCC annual convention in New York City.

“A Healing Hurt: Writing in a Multi-ethnic Classroom,” paper delivered at the 2001 CCCC annual convention in Denver, Colorado.

“What to Do on Tuesday Morning: Revising Writing Assignments” Western Pennsylvania Council of Teachers of English, Pittsburgh, PA, October 20, 2001.

“Rich Heritage: The Academic Legacy of Nontraditional Students"

paper delivered at the 1999 CCCC annual convention in Atlanta, Georgia.

Professional Organization Memberships: National Council of Teachers of English; Conference on College Composition.

Joined La Roche: August, 1999

Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA