Associate Professor, English

Faculty Scholar, Center for the Study of Diversity

University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716

kersch@udel.edu

Biography

Stephanie L. Kerschbaum (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison) is an Associate Professor of English focusing on rhetoric and writing studies. Her research examines rhetorics of diversity in higher education and how people negotiate differences in classroom settings. She is currently working on a book that examines a first-year writing classroom for how students orient to differences between themselves and their classmates during writing workshops. Her publications have appeared in College Composition and Communication and in the edited volume Narrative Discourse Analysis for Teacher Educators: Managing Cultural Difference in Classrooms (Hampton, 2011).