Dr. Christine Atkins

Classes Taught

• ENGL 1010: Composition 1
• ENGL 1020: Composition 2
• ENGL 2490: Creative Writing: Poetry
• ENGL 2190: Modern Poetry
• ENGL 2800: Holocaust Literature
• ENGL 2800: Modern American Women Writers

Education

Publications & Presentations

Conference Presentations

• “The Freshman Meets the Farmer: Constructing Green Writing Assignments for the Composition Classroom.” College English Conference, March 26-28, Pittsburg, 2009.
• “More Gain, Less Pain: How to Grade Essays Effectively and Efficiently.”  National Association of Developmental Educators Conference, Spring, 2008.
• “Driving and Crying: Abuse and Redemption in Paula Vogel’s How I Learned Drive,” Presenter, Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, Louisville, February, 2004.
• “Inquiry as Transformation: Practicing Alternative Research Writing,” (Workshop)  Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, March 2003.
• “Living in a Mixed Salad: Teaching Autoethnography in the Composition Classroom,” Presenter, Modern Language Association Conference, New York, 2002.
• “Bloods and Sugar: Alternative Research Papers and the Revision of History”; Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, March, 2002.

Publications:

• "This is What You Deserve: Rape as Rite of Passage in Joyce Carol Oates's "Naked"