David Bartholomae
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David J. Bartholomae is a leading American scholar in composition studies. He is Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at the University of Pittsburgh.
His primary research interests are in composition, literacy, and pedagogy, and his work engages scholarship in rhetoric and in American literature/American Studies. His articles and essays have appeared in publications such as PMLA, Critical Quarterly, and College Composition and Communication.
He is also the co-editor, with Jean Ferguson Carr, of the University of Pittsburgh Press Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture, a leading list of monographs in the field.
Bartholomae has served on the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association and as president of the Conference on College Composition and Communication and president of the Association of Departments of English.
He received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1975.
[edit] Books
- Writing on the Margins: Essays on Composition and Teaching (Hardcover: Palgrave/Macmillan; Softcover: Bedford/St. Martins), 2005.
- The Teaching of Writing: The Eighty fifth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, ed. with Anthony R. Petrosky (Chicago: NSSE and The University of Chicago Press, 1986).
- Facts, Artifacts and Counterfacts: Reading and Writing in Theory and Practice, with Anthony R. Petrosky (Montclair, NJ: Boynton/Cook, 1986).
Textbooks
- Ways of Reading: Words and Images, with Anthony R. Petrosky (Boston: Bedford Books, 2003).
- Reading the Lives of Others: History and Ethnography, with Anthony R. Petrosky (Boston: Bedford Books, 1994).
- Ways of Reading: An Anthology for Writers, with Anthony R. Petrosky (Boston: Bedford Books, 1987). Seven editions.
[edit] Awards
- 2006: CCCC Exemplar Award
- 2005: MLA Mina Shaughnessy Award, for Writing on the Margins
- 2003-2006: Executive Committee and President-Elect, ADE
- 1997-2002: Executive Council, Modern Language Association
- 1995: Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award
- 1992: Distinguished Alumnus, Ohio Wesleyan University
- 1987: Distinguished Achievement Award, Educational Press Association of America
- 1985-1989: Chair, Conference on College Composition and Communication (officer’s rotation)
- 1982: Fulbright Lecturer (Universidad de Deusto)
- 1980: Richard B. Braddock Award
