
DEBORAH COXWELL-TEAGUE, Associate in English, Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric (1990), M.S. in Reading/Language Arts (1983), is Director of the First-Year Composition Program in the Department of English. She trains and supervises the 140+ graduate teaching assistants and adjuncts who teach over 200 sections of first-year writing each semester, and she also teaches a variety of writing courses. She is currently working with Dan Melzer, a former FSU TA who earned PhDs from Florida State in both Rhetoric/Composition and Creative Writing, on a composition textbook to be published in 2010 by Pearson Publishing Company. Deborah is also working on a new custom edition of On Writing, the textbook used at FSU in ENC 1101.