E Shelley Reid, PhD
Director of the Stearns Center for Teaching and Learning
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Shelley has grown up in an extended family of teachers—including several college English professors as well as a middle school principal, a choir director, a medical school mentor, a gymnastics coach, a history teacher, a special education coordinator, and a high school counselor—so it’s not surprising that she frequently studies how both students and teachers learn. She is an associate professor in the Department of English, where she directed the composition program for ten years; taught undergraduate and graduate courses in writing, editing, and program administration; and helped create the doctoral program in Writing and Rhetoric.
She has recently published an OER textbook, Rethinking Your Writing, with WAC Clearinghouse Press. In addition, she has written articles about how teaching assistants in composition programs learn to teach, how writing students engage in peer review activities, how program leaders can assess student progress, and how teaching centers can support a wide range of faculty needs. She is interested more generally in questions of how learners transfer knowledge from one context to another, and how institutions shape the work of teachers and learners at all levels. She received her MA and PhD in English from SUNY Buffalo.
Shelley is featured on Episodes 1 and 2 of the Keystone Concepts in Teaching podcast. Check them out to learn about Building Strategies That Include All Learners and Teaching for Everyone!