About Trauman
A few descriptors about me.
- Ph.D student in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Louisville (2010).
- Teaching college writing since the fall of 1995. (North Dakota State, U of Colorado, Bel-Rea Institute, Sullivan U, Spalding U, U of Louisville).
- Midwestern kid at heart.
Teaching challenges/interests
- Access to and flexibility within digital technologies as teaching and learning resources.
- Awareness and negotiation of discourse communities and the self.
- Strategies for fostering student engagement with course goals.
- Commitment to teaching as reflective practice and scholarly pursuit.
Research towards my dissertation
(Committee: Debra Journet (Dir.), Bruce Horner, Joanna Wolfe)
My dissertation examines rhetorical patterns within the warrants for digital technologies as part of Comp pedagogy. Specifically, I am working to reframe much of this scholarship in terms of cultural materialism. Although my data set is yet unclear, the major figures I’m reading include: Raymond Williams, Christina Haas, Bruce Horner, Andrew Feenberg, Cynthia L. Selfe, Gunther Kress, etc.
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Ryan Trauman
937 Shelby Pkwy
Louisville, KY 40204
502-759-4083
ryantrauman(at)gmail.com
School
Ryan Trauman
Department of English
Bingham Humanities 315
University of Louisville
2211 South Brook
Louisville, KY 40292
rwtrau01(at)louisville.edu
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Trauman,
You probably don’t remember me, but I was the old guy in our Creative Writing program at the University of Colorado. I just happened upon your website; it’s good to see you didn’t give up on writing. I hope you’re still writing poetry–your gift, which I really enjoyed.
Anyway, I just wanted to wish you well.
All best,
Mark Ziebart – Boulder, Colorado
P.S. – I still tell people about your coming out of Norlin Library wearing a dress “just to see what it feels like.” Classic.