David Fleming

Associate Professor, Department of English
Director, University Writing Program
University of Massachusetts Amherst

I teach undergraduate courses in writing and graduate courses in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.  I also direct the University Writing Program, which includes First Year Writing, Junior Year Writing, and the University Writing Center.  My research interests include histories of rhetoric, theories of argument, and pedagogies of writing.  My book, City of Rhetoric: Revitalizing the Public Sphere in Metropolitan America, is forthcoming from SUNY Press. Another book, On the Hinge of History: Freshman Composition at the University of Wisconsin, 1967-1970, is under review.


• Fall '08 course: Englwrit 112, College Writing
• Spring '09 course: English 891, Rhetorical Theory

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Contact Information:

Department of English or (413) 545-0610 (Writing Program)
University Writing Program (413) 545-3880 (English Dept. fax)
University of Massachusetts Amherst email: dfleming@english.umass.edu
Bartlett Hall, Hicks Way office: 305 Bartlett Hall
Amherst, MA 01003-9269 office hours: by appointment

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Academic Biography:

I received my A.B. in English from Davidson College (N.C.) in 1983.  After a year teaching high school in East Africa, I moved to Washington, DC, where for two years I was managing editor of the Youth Policy Institute, a former project of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial.  In 1987, I began work on the M.A. in English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, receiving the degree in 1989.  I taught composition and literature for two years at Laredo Community College in Texas, and in 1991 began work on the PhD in Rhetoric at Carnegie Mellon University, where I wrote a dissertation on rhetorical practices in the design professions.  From 1996 to 1998, I was Assistant Professor of English at New Mexico State University; and from 1998 to 2006, I was Assistant and then Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I am currently Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where I am also Director of the University Writing Program.
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