Laurie G. Kirszner, PhD
Professor of English
PhD, Temple University
Phone: 215-596-8899
Email: l.kirszn@usp.edu
Laurie Kirszner teaches courses in composition, literature, and
creative writing and works closely with students who are writing
minors.
Dr. Kirszner is coauthor of over a dozen popular college writing
textbooks, including literature anthologies; grammar handbooks;
rhetorical, thematic, and cross-cultural readers; and developmental
writing workbooks. Her best-known text, Patterns for College
Writing, has for years been the nation's best-selling college
composition reader/rhetoric.
Representative Publications
The Wadsworth Handbook (Thomson/Wadsworth), 8th
edition, 2008 (along with its Concise, Pocket, and Brief editions)
Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing (Thomson/Wadsworth),
6th edition, 2007 (along with its Compact and Portable editions)
The Blair Reader (Pearson/Prentice Hall), 6th edition,
2008
Patterns for College Writing (Bedford/St. Martin’s
), 10th edition, 2007
Foundations First (Bedford/St. Martin’s), 3rd edition,
2008
Writing First (Bedford/St. Martin’s), 3rd edition,
2007
Focus on Writing (Bedford/St. Martin’s ), 2009
Common Ground: Reading and Writing about America’s Cultures
(Bedford/St. Martin’s), 1994
The Harcourt Brace Casebook Series in Literature (co-series
editor), including volumes on drama (Hamlet, Trifles “Master
Harold”. . .and the Boys); the poems of Emily Dickinson,
Walt Whitman, and Robert Frost; and stories by William Faulkner,
Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor, and Raymond Carver
Representative Presentations
Dr. Kirszner has also given numerous invited presentations
and workshops on writing pedagogy for faculty at the US Air Force
Academy, the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, the University of
Delaware, Kutztown University, the University of Louisville, Southeastern
Louisiana University, the University of Central Florida, Loyola
University, and other schools. She has also participated in
panel discussions and workshops at professional meetings, including
the Conference on College Composition and Communication, the National
Council of Teachers of English, and the Texas Junior College Teachers
Association.
|
