Denise K. Comer
Professor of the Practice of Thompson Writing Program
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 Appointments & Affiliations
- Professor of the Practice of Thompson Writing Program, Thompson Writing Program, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2019
- Director of Thompson Writing Program, Thompson Writing Program, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2021
- Director of the Language, Arts, and Media Program, Thompson Writing Program, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2022
Contact Information
- 1 Brodie Gym Drive, Durham, NC 27708
- Box 90025, Duke University Uwp, Durham, NC 27708-0025
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denise.comer@duke.edu
(919) 660-4357
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Denise Comer's Website
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http://twp.duke.edu/
- Background
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Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., University of South Carolina, Columbia 1999
- M.A., University of Maryland, College Park 1995
- B.A., Virginia Polytech Institute and State University 1993
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Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Co-Director of Language, Arts and Media Program, Thompson Writing Program, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2021 - 2022
- Director of First-Year Writing of Thompson Writing Program, Thompson Writing Program, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2019 - 2021
- Associate Professor of the Practice of Thompson Writing Program, Thompson Writing Program, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2015 - 2019
- Director of First-Year Writing of Thompson Writing Program, Thompson Writing Program, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2012 - 2017
- Assistant Professor of the Practice of Rhetoric in the University Writing Program, Thompson Writing Program, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2008 - 2015
- Interim Director of the Thompson Writing Program, Thompson Writing Program, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2012
- Recognition
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In the News
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JAN 22, 2021 -
SEP 2, 2014 Duke Today -
MAY 2, 2014 Duke Today -
NOV 15, 2013 Durham Herald-Sun -
NOV 5, 2013 Duke Today -
OCT 4, 2013 Duke Today
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Awards & Honors
- Expertise
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Subject Headings
- Research
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Selected Grants
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External Relationships
- College Board
- Coursera
- George Washington University
- Top Hat
- fountainhead press
- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Books
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Comer, D. K. Writing in Transit. A WID Reader. Fountainhead Press, 2015.
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Comer, D. K., and B. G. Garrett. It’s Just a Dissertation. Transforming Your Dissertation From Daunting to Doable to Done. Fountainhead Press, 2014.
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Comer, D. K. Writing for Success in College and Beyond: A Webtext. Dallas, TX: Fountainhead Press, n.d.
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Comer, D. K., ed. Writing in Transit with Readings (In preparation). Dallas, TX: Fountainhead Press, n.d.
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Academic Articles
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Comer, D., C. R. Clark, and D. Canelas. “Writing to learn and learning to write across the disciplines: Peer-to-peer writing in introductory-level MOOCs.” International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 15, no. 5 (October 2014).Open Access Copy
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Ahern-Dodson, J., and D. K. Comer. “The iPad and Writing in the Disciplines.” Writing Across the Curriculum, January 2014.
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Comer, D. K. ““This Erstwhile Unreadable Text”: Multidisciplinarity and First-Year Writing Faculty Teaching Mentoring and Support.” Teaching/Writing, January 2014.
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Ahern-Dodson, J., and D. K. Comer. “Multidisciplinarity and the Tablet: A Study of Writing Practices.” Writing Across the Curriculum 24 (2013): 63–82.
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Comer, D. K. “Translation and Transfer: Interdisciplinary Writing and Communication.” Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics 11 (2013): 106–12.
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Benz, B., D. K. Comer, M. Lowry, and E. Juergensmeyer. “WPAs, Writing Programs and the Common Reading Experience.” Writing Program Administrators 37 (2011): 11–32.
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Comer, D. K. “Bending the Gaze: Transparency, Reciprocity and Supervisory Classroom Visits.” Pedagogy 11 (2011).
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Comer, D. K. “Changing Tables and Changing Culture: Pregnancy, Parenting, and First-Year Writing.” Composition Studies 37, no. 2 (October 2009): 91–113.
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Comer, D. K. “'White child is good, black child his [or her] slave': Children, Women, and Empire in Early Ninteenth-Century India.” European Romantic Review 16, no. 1 (January 2005): 39–58.
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Comer, D. K., and E. M. White. “Adventuring into MOOC Writing Assessment: Challenges, results, and Possibilities (In preparation),” n.d.
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Comer, D. K., and E. Wang. “Negativity in MOOCs: Impacts on Learning and Teaching and How Instructional Teams May Be Able to Address It (In preparation).” Insight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, n.d.
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Book Sections
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“Educational Data Mining,” 2019.
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Comer, D. K. “Learning How to Teach … Differently: Extracts from a MOOC Instructor’s Journal.” In The MOOC Invasion, edited by Steven Krause and Charlie Lowe. Parlor Press, 2014.
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Comer, D. K. “MOOCs Offer Students Opportunity to Grow as Writers.” In Proceedings of the 7th International Mult-Conference on Society, Cybernetics and Informatics: IMSCI 2013. July 9-12, 2013. Orlando, Florida., 2013.
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Comer, D. K., and Bradley Hammer. ““Surveying the Efficacy of Digital Response: Pedagogical Imperatives, Faculty Approaches, and Student Feedback.” In Teaching Writing with Technology. Fountainhead Press, 2008.
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Comer, D. K. “"Negotiating Privilege in the Teaching of Travel Literature".” In Methods for Teaching Travel Literature and Writing. Exploring the World and Self, edited by Eileen Groom. Peter Lang, 2005.
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Comer, D. K. “Helen Lady Dufferin, Countess of Gifford.” In Dictionary of Literary Biography, edited by W. B. Thesing, 199:127–35. Detroit: Gale Research, 1999.
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Comer, D. K. “The Impact of E-Reading on Writing Programs.” In Writing Program Administrators Conference Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 15-18 July 2010, n.d.
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Comer, D. K. “Fostering Multidisciplinary Pedagogies.” In International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, Madrid, Spain, 15-17 November 2010, n.d.
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Other Articles
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Comer, D. K. “Review of "First Books and Second Books: SWR Authors Talk about Developing Book-Length Projects".” Kairos, 2012.
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Comer, D. K. “Review of "Patient Genres as Rhetorical Sites of Agency, Resistance, and Expertise",” 2012.
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- Teaching & Mentoring
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Recent Courses
- ARTS&SCI 205S: Composing Oneself: Stress, Identity, and Wellness 2023
- ETHICS 89S: Special Topic: First-Year Seminar in Ethics 2023
- ETHICS 205S: Composing Oneself: Stress, Identity, and Wellness 2023
- WRITING 89S: First-Year Seminar: Special Topics 2023
- WRITING 205S: Composing Oneself: Stress, Identity, and Wellness 2023
- WRITING 270: Composing the Internship Experience: Topics in Digital Rhetoric and Social Media Discourse 2023
- WRITING 271: Reflective Writing and the Internship/Work Experience 2023
- ARTS&SCI 205S: Composing Oneself: Stress, Identity, and Wellness 2022
- DANCE 199FS: Knowing Through Performance 2022
- ETHICS 89S: Special Topic: First-Year Seminar in Ethics 2022
- ETHICS 205S: Composing Oneself: Stress, Identity, and Wellness 2022
- MUSIC 199FS: Knowing Through Performance 2022
- THEATRST 199FS: Knowing Through Performance 2022
- WRITING 89S: First-Year Seminar: Special Topics 2022
- WRITING 199FS: Knowing Through Performance 2022
- WRITING 205S: Composing Oneself: Stress, Identity, and Wellness 2022
- WRITING 270: Composing the Internship Experience: Topics in Digital Rhetoric and Social Media Discourse 2022
- WRITING 271: Reflective Writing and the Internship/Work Experience 2022
- ARTS&SCI 205S: Composing Oneself: Stress, Identity, and Wellness 2021
- ETHICS 205S: Composing Oneself: Stress, Identity, and Wellness 2021
- WRITING 101: Academic Writing 2021
- WRITING 165S: Making Your Voice Heard: The Arts of Oral Communication, Critical Speaking, and Digital Rhetoric 2021
- WRITING 205S: Composing Oneself: Stress, Identity, and Wellness 2021
- WRITING 270: Composing the Internship Experience: Topics in Digital Rhetoric and Social Media Discourse 2021
- WRITING 271: Reflective Writing and the Internship/Work Experience 2021
- Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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Presentations & Appearances
- Composition MOOCs and Pedagogy by the Thousands: Reflections on Four Open Education Innovations. March 20, 2014 2014
- Writing to Learn and Learning to Write across the Disciplines: Peer-to-Peer Writing in Introductory-Level MOOCs. December 6, 2013 2013
- Teaching and Learning Writing in a MOOC: Implications, Outcomes, and Reflections. July 19, 2013 2013
- MOOCs Offer Students Opportunity to Grow as Writers. July 11, 2013 2013
- Academic Writing for Inter-Disciplinary Communication. July 10, 2013 2013
- Reframing, Managing, and Learning to Embrace MOOC Negativity (Submitted Proposal, Under Considerration). April 1, 2013 2013
- Bridging Medicine, Writing, and Photography through a Community Partnership. February 16, 2013 2013
- Composition MOOCs and Pedagogy by the Thousands: Reflections on Four Open Education Innovations. January 3, 2013 2013
- Teaching Writing at Scale and Online. January 3, 2013 2013
- Safety Nets and Golden Handcuffs: Renewable Faculty Appointments in First-year Writing Programs. July 15, 2011 2011
- iPads & Writing-Intensive Courses: A Multidisciplinary Perspective. April 1, 2011 2011
- The Impact of E-Reading on Writing Programs. July 1, 2010 2010
- Incorporating Writing into the Liberal Learning Seminar. June 1, 2010 2010
- Fostering Multidisciplinary Pedagogies. January 21, 2010 2010
- Reformulating Success: Transitioning Duke’s First-Year Students from the Five-Paragraph. October 1, 2009 2009
- Common Reading. Common Writing. July 1, 2009 2009
- Increasing Exclusivity and Inclusivity in Higher-Education Access. September 22, 2008 2008
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Service to the Profession
- Faculty Sponsor : MedLife. 2011 2011
- Coordinator : Ronald McDonald House Family Story Project. 2010 2010
- Coordinator and Student Supervisor : Workshop: Writing is Easy. 2010 - 2011 2010 - 2011
- Joint meeting between Athletics and TWP Faculty and Tutors. October 2009 2009
- Writing 191 Showcase. November 26, 2008 2008
- Writing 20 Beyond Duke. November 26, 2008 2008
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