Maureen R. Fitzsimmons
Visiting Instructor

105 Moon Library
1 Forestry Dr.
Syracuse, New York 13210

Phone: (315) 470-6721/470-6914
Email: mrfitzsi@syr.edu

Education

• BJ, University of Missouri
• MA, Syracuse University

ESF Courses Taught

• EWP 190
• EWP 410
• EWP 290, syllabus

Areas of Interest

• Composition and rhetoric
• technical writing
• service-learning and community based writing
• creative nonfiction journalism
• diversity pedagogy
• narrative and storytelling

Publications

• Instructor's Resource Manual for The College Writer, 2006
• Awards (2006)

Presentations

• Co-Presenter, "Negotiating Boundaries Between Campus and Community," Writing Center Administrators (IWCA-NCPTW) Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 2005.
• Co-Presenter, "Tapping Into Local Resources: Extending the Classroom," Gateway Focus on Teaching, Syracuse University, November 11, 2004.
• Co-Presenter, "Writing and Diversity in a Globalized World," Syracuse University Project Advance Conference, October 8, 2004
• Co-Presenter, "Who Owns Diversity? Critical Encounters in Higher Education," The Fourth International Conference on Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations, UCLA, July 6, 2004.
• Co-Presenter, "Working with Professional Writing Students in the Writing Center." Writing Center Administrators (IWCA-NCPTW) Conference, Hershey, Pennsylvania, October 2003.
• Presenter, "Service-Learning in a Writing Class," Venture Consortium Conference, Franklin & Marshall College, May 2003