Elizabeth Kleinfeld

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Elizabeth Kleinfeld

Professor of English

Undergraduate Studies

Bio

If you listen carefully, you’ll catch just a bit of my Long Island roots in the way I say “peanut butter” and “orange.” I grew up just a short walk from the beach in Northport, NY, and then moved to the Washington, D.C. metro area when I was 9, where I learned the proper way to use the word “y’all.” I moved to Illinois for college, earning a Bachelor’s degree in Latin American history from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, and Master’s and doctoral degrees in English Studies from 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, when I joined the MSU Denver faculty.

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); camping, rafting, and other outdoor pursuits; yoga, running, and working out; and lounging outside with smart companions and a tall glass of almost anything.

I am a stroke survivor and have low vision and face blindness.

I blog about grief, disability, and joy at https://elizabethkleinfeld.com/.

Degree

PhD in Composition/Rhetoric

Illinois State University

MS in Literature

Illinois State University

BS in History

Bradley University

Published Works

  • Kleinfeld, A. E. . "Cripping Sex As We Age: Caregiver Memoirs and Anti-Ableist Approaches to Sex". (). Bristol University Press.
  • Kleinfeld, A. E. (2022). The No-Policy Policy: Negotiating with (Neurodivergent) Clients. (in press). WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship.
  • Kleinfeld, A. E. (2022). The Revise & Resubmit. (). .
  • Kleinfeld, A. E. (2022). Teaching Toward a More Just Citation Practice. (). University Press of Colorado/Utah State University Press .
  • Kleinfeld, A. E., Lee, S., Prebel, J. . Disruptive Stories: Structural Marginalization, Globalization and Marginalization, and Embodied Marginalization . ,
  • Kleinfeld, A. E. (2021). Elizabeth Kleinfeld on Emotional Labor in the Writing Center. WLN ,
  • Braziller, S. A., Kleinfeld, A. E. (2020). Instructor's Manual for The Bedford Book of Genres: A Guide & Reader. Bedford/St. Martin's,
  • Braziller, S. A., Kleinfeld, A. E. (2020). The Bedford Book of Genres: A Guide & Reader. Bedford/St. Martin's,
  • Kleinfeld, A. E. (2020). Undergraduate Research and Labor Practices in Writing Studies. (). Parlor Press.
  • Kleinfeld, A. E., Lee, S., Prebel, J. (2020). Whose Voices Are Heard?: A Demographic Comparison of Authors Published in WLN 2005-2017 and Writers Interested in Publishing. WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, 45(7-8), 11-17. .
  • Kleinfeld, A. E. (2020). From Great to Good Enough: Recalibrating Expectations as WPA . (). Utah State University Press.
  • Braziller, S. A., Kleinfeld, A. E. (2020). The Bedford Book of Genres: A Guide & Reader. Bedford/St. Martin's,
  • Kleinfeld, A. E. (2019). Researching About Research, Writing About Writing from Sources . (). Utah State University Press.
  • Kleinfeld, A. E., Wright, A. (2019). An Assignment Model for Teaching Students to Write from Sources. Currents in Teaching and Learning, 11(1). .
  • Kleinfeld, A. E. (2018). Just Read the Assignment: Using Course Documents to Analyze Research Pedagogy. (). Utah State University Press. Points of Departure Rethinking Student Source Use and Writing Studies Research Methods
  • Kleinfeld, A. E. (2018). Re-imagining Multimodality through UDL: Inclusivity and Accessibility. (). Utah State UP.
  • Kleinfeld, A. E. (2018). Taking an Expansive View of Accessibility: The Writing Center at Metropolitan State University of Denver . Composition Forum , 41 http://compositionforum.com/issue/39/.
  • Herring, J. T., Morrison, A. C., Young, S. K., Kleinfeld, A. E., MacDonald, E. L. (2017). Take a SIP of This: Peer-to-Peer Promotion of Strong Instructional Practices. International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, (29.3), 571-579. http://www.isetl.org/ijtlhe/current.cfm .
  • Kleinfeld, A. E., Jamieson , S. . working title: Source Use Textbook . Bedford/St. Martin's,
  • Kleinfeld, A. E. (2016). Using Citation Analysis in Writing Center Tutorials to Encourage 'Excessive Research'. Praxishttp://www.praxisuwc.com/.
  • Braziller , A., Kleinfeld, A. E. (2015). series on multimodal composition . , http://www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2015/09/03/myths-of-multimodal-composing/
  • Kleinfeld, A. E. . How FYC Documents Construct Source Use. Research Exchange: An Index of Contemporary Writing Research, http://researchexchange.colostate.edu/
  • Braziller, S. A., Kleinfeld, A. E. (2014). The Bedford Book of Genres: A Guide & Reader. Bedford/St. Martin's,
  • Braziller, S. A., Kleinfeld, A. E. (2014). The Bedford Book of Genres: A Guide. Bedford/St. Martin's,
  • Kleinfeld, A. E. (2013). Sixty Audio Essays in Two Semesters with One iPod: Innovating and Making Do at a Community College. Computers & Composition Online, (Fall 2013). .
  • Kleinfeld, A. E. (2012). Fragments of an Open Door College Professor's Discourse on Mystory. Computers & Composition Online, (Fall 2012). www.bgsu.edu/departments/english/cconline/new_media_cc/Kleinfeld/Kleinfeld.html.
  • Kleinfeld, A. E. (2011). Writing Centers, Ethics, and "Excessive Research". Computers & Composition Online, (Fall 2011). http://cconlinejournal.org/ethics_special_issue/Kleinfeld/.
  • Kleinfeld, A. E. (2011). Teaching Carnival 4.6. The Chronicle of Higher Education, chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/teaching-carnival-4-6/30295
  • Kleinfeld, A. E. (2010). MetaSpace: Meatspace and Blogging Intersect. (pp 226-238). .
  • Kleinfeld, A. E. (2006). Writing @ RRCC: A Handbook. Pearson,
  • Kleinfeld, A. E. (2005). Writing @ RRCC: A Handbook. Pearson,
  • Kleinfeld, A. E. (2003). Telecoop Distance Learning Consortium Annual Report. ,
  • Kleinfeld, A. E. (2002). Growing Up Incarcerated: The Prison-Industrial Complex and Literacy as Resistance. (). .
  • Kleinfeld, A. E. (2002). Telecoop Distance Learning Consortium Annual Report. ,
  • Kleinfeld, A. E. (2001). Telecoop Distance Learning Consortium Annual Report. ,
  • Kleinfeld, A. E. (2000). Telecoop Distance Learning Consortium Annual Report. ,
  • Kleinfeld, A. E. (2000). The Courtyard. Pepper,
  • Kleinfeld, A. E. (1999). Measures. Gateway City Brewz,
  • Kleinfeld, A. E. (1999). Going in Circles on the Last Day of Class. 4MAT Implementation Guide,
  • Kleinfeld, A. E. (1999). Telecoop Distance Learning Consortium Annual Report. ,

Research Interests

You can find information about my research here: https://elizabethkleinfeld.com/current-projects.

Teaching Interests

disability studies, writing center theory/practice, rhetoric, ethnographic research methods

My teaching philosophy is here: https://elizabethkleinfeld.com/students.

Office Hours

Spring 2024: M/W 10:45-1:15 via Teams (email me for link). To make an appointment outside my office hours, go to https://calendly.com/elizabethkleinfeld.

Additional Information

https://elizabethkleinfeld.com/