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DirectorVan Hillard
Van E. Hillard
Associate Professor of Rhetoric
B.A., Ohio Wesleyan University
M.A., Ph.D., University of Cincinnati

Email:  Van Hillard
Office Location:  Chambers 3135
Phone:  704-894-2974
Fax:  704-894-2782



Van E. Hillard has taught in the fields of Rhetoric and Writing Studies for the past thirty years,  sixteen of them spent at Duke University, where he directed the University Writing Program. His interests include visual rhetorics, deliberative writing, and the operations of public memory. With his Duke colleague Elizabeth Kiss, he received a five-year grant from the Hewlett Foundation to develop methods for teaching the arts of deliberation in the face of moral disagreement.  He has published essays on civic rhetoric, U.S. literacy education, and public memorials.  

Shireen Campbell
Director of Writing Center (2008-09 academic year)
Shireen Campbell
Professor of English
B.A., Florida Atlantic University
Ph. D., Tulane

Email:  Shireen Campbell
Office location:  Chambers 2290   
Phone:  704-894-2312
Fax:  704-894-2782

Professor Campbell’s teaching interests range from writing in different contexts and for varied purposes to rhetorical history, the theory and practice of teaching composition, creative nonfiction, young adult fiction, and modern American and British literature.   


Director of Writing Center (2009-10 academic year)
Paul Miller
Associate Professor of English
B.A., College of Wooster
M.A., Ohio State (Philosophy)
M.A., Ohio State (English)
Ph.D., Ohio State

Email:  Paul Miller 
Office location:  Chambers 2011 
Phone:  704-894-2271
Fax:  704-894-2782

Professor Miller specializes in nonfiction writing, film, and literary theory.  He has particular interests in composition theory, writing-across-the-curriculum, documentary film, literacy and technology, and narrative theory.  His most recent publications concern documentary film theory and techniques for responding to writing.

Staff AssistantNancy Randazzo
Nancy Randazzo

Email:  Nancy Randazzo
Office location:  Chambers 3274
Phone:  704-894-2254
Fax:  704-894-2782