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Office Number:
Education 3208
Phone Number:
(805) 893-7543
E-mail:
education.ucsb.edu bazerman
Charles Bazerman
Professor, Ph.D. (Brandeis University)
Emphasis:
Teaching & Learning, Cultural Perspectives & Comparative Education, Research Methodology
Research Interests:
Writing; Teaching of writing; English education; Literacy; Language arts; Writing across the curriculum; Higher education writing; Composition
Biography:
My commitment to literacy and the teaching of writing started thirty years ago when I was teaching first and third grade in inner-city Brooklyn. I saw concretely how learning to read and write changed the dispositions and bearing of individual children, made possible a successful relationship to schooling, and improved life chances. I also saw the effects of children on entering the world of literacy. A few years later, after I finished my degree and began teaching at City University of New York during the early years of open admissions, I found professional satisfaction in helping students enter into the literate discussion of the university. My research and pedagogic interests started from the teaching of writing to encompass the ways we make use of reading in our writing and then the ways in which academic writing is organized around the literatures of the several disciplines.
I particularly focused on scientific writing in my book SHAPING WRITTEN KNOWLEDGE: THE GENRE AND ACTIVITY OF THE EXPERIMENTAL ARTICLE IN SCIENCE. In my most recent book THE LANGUAGES OF EDISON'S LIGHT I examine how technical discourses and projects intersect with many other discourses of civic, economic, and cultural life. Other books and articles consider aspects of academic and professional writing as well as writing across the curriculum. I have also written many textbooks for teaching university reading and writing and the relation between them. I also edit a book series on Rhetoric, Knowledge and Society. Currently I am interested in exploring how the history of literate forms and practices is related to the developing complex organization of modern social life and consciousness, and how we use language to understand the environment and our relationship to it.
Recent Publications:
Bazerman, C. (Ed.). Handbook of research on writing. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. 2008. [Edited Volume]
Bazerman, C. Introduction. In C. Bazerman (Ed.),Handbook of research on writing. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. 2008. [Introduction]
Bazerman, C. & Rogers, P. Writing and secular knowledge outside modern European institutions. In C. Bazerman (Ed.),Handbook of research on writing. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. 2008. [Book Chapter]
Bazerman, C. & Rogers, P. Writing and secular knowledge within modern European institutions. In C. Bazerman (Ed.),Handbook of research on writing. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. 2008. [Book Chapter]
Bazerman, C. Editor’s Introduction. In Elenore Long. Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Local Publics. Parlor Press and WAC Clearinghouse. 2008. [Introduction]
Affiliations:
Conference on College Composition and Communication
National Council of Teachers of English
