Margaret Willard-Traub, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Composition and Rhetoric; Affiliate faculty in Women's and Gender Studies
College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters
Language, Culture, and the Arts
mwillard@umich.edu
313-583-6383
3067 College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters Building | 4901 Evergreen Road | Dearborn, MI 48128
Curriculum Vitae

Teaching Areas:

Composition and Rhetoric, Women's & Gender Studies

Research Areas:

Feminism, Globalization, Pedagogy, Writing

Biography and Education

Margaret Willard-Traub has served as Director of the Writing Program and Writing Center (2006-2012), Director of the Writing Program (2017-present), as a member of the campus-wide task force charged with revising general education (2013-2014), and as CASL representative to the Faculty Senate Council (2016-2018), among other roles. Her work has appeared in College English, Assessing Writing, Feminist Studies, Rhetoric Review and Pedagogy, as well as in a number of collected editions. She currently is working on a book-length project that examines 21st C higher education trends and practices through a feminist, rhetorical lens.

Research Interests

Transnational and cross-cultural teaching and learning, reflective approaches to higher education and writing program administration, feminist rhetoric, scholarly memoir and large-scale writing assessment.

Education

Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: English & Education (Composition & Rhetoric)

M.A., University of Massachusetts, Boston: English

B.A., University of Pennsylvania: Biology and Spanish

 

Selected Publications

Willard-Traub, Margaret K.  “Learning Resilience from Second-language Students.” Pedagogy 19.2, forthcoming Spring 2019. (Special issue: Resilience in an Age of Austerity). Print. (refereed)

Willard-Traub, Margaret K.  “Writing Programs and a New Ethos for ‘Globalization.’” The Internationalization of U.S. Writing Programs. Ed. Shirley Rose and Irwin Weiser. Logan, Utah State UP, April 2018. Print. (refereed) https://upcolorado.com/utah-state-university-press/item/3305-the-internationalization-of-us-writing-programs

Willard-Traub, Margaret K.  “The Threshold Potential of Transnational Pedagogies.” Journal of Global Literacies, Technologies & Emerging Pedagogies 4.3 (Special issue on Transnationalism), February 2018. (refereed) http://joglep.com/index.php/new-page-sample/

Willard-Traub, Margaret K. “Rhetorical Location and the Globalized First-Year Writing Program,” program profile.  Composition Forum, Volume 36, Summer 2017. http://compositionforum.com/issue/36/michigan-dearborn.php