Overview
Denise Comer's research interests include composition, nineteenth-century British literature, travel writing, and women's studies. Her current scholarship focuses on issues of the profession in composition and rhetoric, as well as Romantic and Victorian British women's travel writing in India.
Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations
Professor of the Practice of the Writing and Rhetoric Program
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2019 - Present
Writing and Rhetoric Program,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Chair of Arts and Sciences Academic Counsel
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2024 - Present
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Director of the Writing and Rhetoric Program
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2025 - Present
Writing and Rhetoric Program,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Scholarly Works
Providing Peer Feedback as a Threshold Concept for Writing Transfer
Journal article Composition Forum · December 20, 2023 Open Access Link to item CiteEmbodied CV (Abridged)
Book section · August 16, 2022 Open Access CiteCollective Bargaining, Heterogeneity, and Non-Tenure Track Faculty
Book section · September 17, 2021 Open Access CiteRecent Grants
Ronald McDonald House/Duke University Family Story Project
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation · 2011 - 2013View All Grants
Education
University of South Carolina, Columbia ·
1999
Ph.D.
University of Maryland, College Park ·
1995
M.A.
Virginia Polytech Institute and State University ·
1993
B.A.