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Shireen Campbell

Professor of English
Co-Director, The Writing Center
B.A. Florida Atlantic University
Ph. D. Tulane


Office: Chambers 2290 Ext: 2312
email: Shireen Campbell
Curriculum Vitae

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. Her recent courses include:

  • Serious Play: Writing About Toys (ENG 101)
  • Writing With the Community (ENG 201)
  • Literary Analysis (ENG 220)
  • Young Adult Literature (ENG 231)
  • Creative Nonfiction (ENG 301)
  • Seminars on Memoir and Virginia Woolf
  • New Intellectual Writing (WRI 101)

Recent publications include a personal essay "The Weight", a co-authored guide to web-based research What Every Student Needs to Know about Researching Online, "Bending Time" in Double Lives, Reinvention and Those We Leave Behind (2009), and an essay, "Self Study" appearing in Topograph: New Writings from the Carolinas and Beyond (2010).

Courses for Spring 2013:
WRI 101 Revisiting the Library
ENG 231 Young Adult Literature

Courses for Fall 2013:
ENG 201 Professional Writing
ENG 494 Multicultural Children's Literature (Seminar)