- Office: Sitterly House 107
- Campus Extension: 3499
- Email: sjamieso@drew.edu
- Personal Web Page: users.drew.edu/~sjamieso/
Arrived at Drew: 1993
(previously at Colgate University)
Areas of Specialization: Composition theory and
pedagogy;
creative non-fiction (travel writing);
contemporary
American
authors and Ethnic-American authors; critical theory.
Courses regularly taught:
College Writing 1 and 2; Writing in the Discipline of English;
Non-Fiction Articles; The Personal Essay;
Literary Analysis; Literature and Gender; Seminar: Oprah's Book Club.
Teaching and service awards: Caspersen School of
Graduate
Studies Will Herberg Distinguished Professor Award, 2004; New Jersey State Educational Opportunity Fund Champion
Award,
2003; Drew University Alpha Phi Omega
Faculty
Service Award, 2001; Drew University Student Life Faculty Recognition Award
for Contribution to Co-Curricular Life, 1999.
Co-curricular activities:
Faculty advisor for the Drew
Honduras
Project, and
previous co-advisor of Circle K (with
Jill Cermele, Psychology). In January 2001 I co-directed a Drew
International
Seminar to Puerto Rico and Cuba. In January 2007 and 2008 I
co-directed a Drew
International Seminar to Argentina. I'm also on the advisory
board
of the online journal, Cerebration,
(co-founded by a Drew graduate student) and serve on
numerous
committees.
Professional
activities: College Composition and Communication
(CCC) Executive Board (2008-2011). Chair of the CCC Committee on the
Major in Composition and Rhetoric (2007-2010). Co-chair of Drew's
chapter
of AAUP (American Association of University Professors), 1999-2001;
Secretary to the New Jersey Conference
of
the AAUP, 2000 to 2004. 2003 Local
Chair of the Annual
Meeting of
the
Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), a four day
conference
held in New York City.
Recent Books: Coming of Age: The Advanced Writing Curriculum, with Linda Shamoon, Rebecca Moore Howard, and Robert Schwegler (Heinemann, 2000), Winner of the WPA Best Book Award for 2000-2001; The Bedford Guide to Teaching Writing in the Disciplines: An Instructor's Desk Reference, with Rebecca Moore Howard (Bedford Books, 1995), and essays on composition and culture in books published by Oxford University Press, Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, NCTE, MLA, and Greenwood Press.
Points of interest: I'm working on national study of student source use, the citation project, and an argument textbook. I am a consultant to colleges developing vertical writing and writing across the curriculum programs, and more sophisticated plagiarism policies. When I'm not teaching, writing, or talking to students, I like to cook, garden, and hang out with my cats--including the two new kittens who moved in with us in Fall 2009.
On teaching: "No
matter which course I'm
teaching,
I want my students to learn to think critically, read effectively, and
write
beautifully. I hope they will learn to think about what they read and
write
from multiple perspectives, using a variety of theoretical frameworks.
And
I hope they'll make connections between my classes and things they've
learned
elsewhere. But most of all, I want them to enjoy reading and writing.
If
they don't do that in my classes, I don't feel I have
succeeded.
If I ever fail to learn something along the way I will know I didn't
teach
a good class."