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Kurt Spellmeyer
Kurt Spellmeyer

Professor of English

Director of the Writing Program

Contact Information
Office: Murray Hall, 108
Campus: College Ave, New Brunswick
Email: kurt.spellmeyer@rutgers.edu
Telephone: (732) 932-7607
Office Hours:

Tuesdays and Fridays

2:30-4:30 p.m.

and by appointment

Specialization
Rhetoric; Communications Theory; Sociology of Knowledge
Biography

B.A., Virginia; M.A., Ph.D., Washington

Professor Spellmeyer is the author of Arts of Living: Reinventing the Humanities for the Twenty-first Century (SUNY Press, 2003), The New Humanities Reader (with Richard Miller; Houghton-Mifflin, 2002), and Common Ground: Dialogue, Understanding, and the Teaching of Composition (Prentice Hall, 1992), as well as articles on the theory of composition, critical theory of composition, critical theory, and academic institutions.  He is currently at work on a book, World without End: Saving the Humanities in an Age of Specialization, which examines the ways in which the modern system of professors has helped to reconstitute older -- and undemocratic -- forms of social privilege.

Publications

Arts of Living: Reinventing the Humanities for the Twenty-first Century

The New Humanities Reader
Undergraduate Courses Taught Graduate Courses Taught

Expository Writing

Expository Writing II

Teaching Composition

 

 

 
 
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