David Fleming

Associate Professor
Department of English
University of Massachusetts Amherst

I teach undergraduate courses in writing and graduate courses in composition-rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.  From 2007-2011, I directed the University Writing Program, which includes First Year Writing, Junior Year Writing, and the Writing Center.  My research interests include histories of rhetoric, theories of argument, and pedagogies of writing.  My first book, City of Rhetoric: Revitalizing the Public Sphere in Metropolitan America, was published by SUNY Press in 2008; my second, From Form to Meaning: Freshman Composition and the Long Sixties, 1957-1974, by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2011.

Check out my blog on UMass Amherst's "Common Read" (now in its 2nd year)!
And see the syllabus for my Spring 2012 graduate course: English 891JT.


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Contact Information:

Department of English or (413) 545-2972 (English Dept. office)
University Writing Program (413) 545-3880 (English Dept. fax)
University of Massachusetts Amherst email: dfleming@english.umass.edu
Bartlett Hall, Hicks Way office: 267 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 then 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, where I directed both the English 100 (freshman composition) and English 201 (intermediate composition) programs.  I am currently Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and former director of the University Writing Program, which includes First Year Writing, Junior Year Writing, and the Writing Center.  I teach graduate courses in our composition-rhetoric doctoral program (for individual courses, click here), and I am active in the national discipline of writing, rhetoric, and literacy studies, serving on the editorial boards of Rhetoric Review, Rhetoric Society Quarterly (2007-2011), and Written Communication.  My author page at Amazon.com can be found here. And my list of web-based resources about composition-rhetoric, here.
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Courses:

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