
DEBORAH COXWELL-TEAGUE, Associate in English, Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric (1990), M.S. in Reading/Language Arts (1983), is Director of First-Year Writing 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 conducting research on the place of the personal in the academy and the role of narration in composition courses.