Paul Rogers

Paul M. Rogers (Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, 2008) is an Assistant Professor of English at George Mason University and the Associate Director of the Northern Virgina Writing Project. In addition to working with K-12 teachers throughout Northern Virginia, he teaches undergraduate courses in academic writing, business writing, writing for the humanities, and advanced nonfiction writing, as well as graduate courses in composition pedagogy and composition theory. His recent books and articles include: "The Writing Across the Curriculum Sourcebook" (Bedford St.Martin's, in press); "Traditions of Writing Research" (Routledge, 2010) and "Writing and knowledge making: Insights from an historical perspective" in Writing [in] the Knowledge Society (Parlor Press, in press). Professor Rogers was a 2008 recipient of the K. Patricia Cross Award for leadership in higher education, and a co-recipient of the 2009 Janet Emig Award for research in English Education. Paul serves on the Stanford Study of Writing Research team, and is co-chair with Charles Bazerman of the 2011 international writing research conference-Writing Research Across Borders II.