Gerri McNenny, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

E-mail: mcnenny@chapman.edu
Phone: 714-744-7936
Fax: 714-744-7035

Gerri McNenny, Ph.D., is a Rhetoric and Composition specialist and director of the Graduate Project on Writing and Educational Research for the College of Educational Studies. After earning a Master’s degree in English as a Second Language, she volunteered to serve as an ESL instructor in the Peace Corps, traveling to Zaire to teach English at the University of Kisangani. She returned to complete a doctorate in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English at the University of Arizona and has directed or assisted in the direction of writing programs at the University of Arizona, the University of Houston-Downtown, California State University, Fullerton, and here at Chapman. Her articles have appeared in Rhetoric Review, Journal of Basic Writing, Dialogue, and Reflections. She also edited and contributed to the book Mainstreaming Basic Writers: Politics and Pedagogies of Access. Her areas of research include graduate writing, service learning, learning communities, rhetorical analysis, discourse analysis, and ideological literacy. She enjoys teaching classes in critical discourse analysis, rhetorical theory and practice, rhetorical criticism, Composition Studies, the teaching of writing, and writing instruction at all levels.

Curriculum Vita