Metropolitan State University of Denver

Dr Elizabeth Anne Kleinfeld

Personal Biography Statement

I began teaching in 1989 as a student at Bradley University. While working on a Bachelor’s degree in history, I worked as a teaching assistant for several professors of history and humanities, conducting discussion groups and review sessions. I’ve taught English since 1993, when I began working on a Master’s degree in English at Illinois State University. After earning my Master’s, I moved to Denver on a whim and began teaching at the Community College of Aurora and Red Rocks Community College. I eventually joined the full-time faculty at Red Rocks Community College, where I taught until 2008.

In 1999, I began work on my Ph.D. in English Studies at Illinois State University, teaching in Denver during the academic year and spending summers in Illinois completing coursework. I finished my Ph.D. in 2006.

I joined the English faculty at Metro State in 2008.

My hobbies include – of course – reading and writing. Isabel Allende, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, e.e. cummings, Virginia Woolf, Margaret Atwood, Dave Eggers, David Foster Wallace, and Michael Chabon are some of my favorite authors. I also like to cook and bake. Desserts are my specialty (some might say obsession) – my family and friends like to play “stump the dessert chef” with me. Other hobbies include traveling (especially to Mayan ruins in Central America or any place with plentiful water), yoga, Krav Maga, and lounging on my front porch with a tall glass of almost anything.

Current Projects

I am currently writing a textbook with Amy Braziller on multigenre multimodal research composition. The book will be published in 2011.

Educational Biography

Ph.D. in English Studies. Emphasis: Composition. Illinois State University. 2006.

Dissertation: Dissonance and Excess: Four Students’ Experiences of Revision In a Composition Classroom. Using grounded theory methodology and teacher research, my dissertation studies four community college students’ experiences of revision in a composition classroom in which the primary work of the class is engaged reading and discussion of student-produced texts. I suggest that students may revise productively when they are taught to engage, rather than suppress, the conflict and dissonance that can arise when reader response is thoughtful and critical. I argue that an emphasis on revision as exploratory can encourage students to take responsibility for making decisions about their writing, and that an emphasis on peer response, rather than instructor response, helps students become less dependent on directive instructor response. Ultimately, I propose a pedagogy that recognizes and respects student experience rather than a pedagogy that calls itself student-centered but privileges the instructor’s experiences and response.

Directed by Janice Neuleib. Committee members: Bob Broad, Ron Fortune.

M.S. in English. Emphasis: Literature. Illinois State University. 1994.

B.S. in History. Emphasis: Latin American History. Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois. 1992.

Research Areas/Interests

Composition pedagogy and theory, ethnographic research methods, Feminist literary and composition theory, popular culture studies, multigenre and multimodal composition, New Media, revision theory and practice, Writing Across the Curriculum, writing center theory and practice

Other

My CV is here: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/42070972/public%20CV%202-16-12.rtf

You can check my availability here: https://tungle.me/elizabeth.kleinfeld.

Courses Taught

ENG-1010,ENG-1020,ENG-2500,ENG-3510,ENG-3670,ENG-382N,ENG-390A,ENG-3980
,ENG-4520

Office Hours

Tuesday - [02:00 to 03:00]
[08:30 to 09:30]
Thursday - [02:00 to 03:00]
[08:30 to 09:30]

Current Semester Schedule