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Christopher Thaiss Clark Kerr Presidential Chair and Director of the University Writing Program; Professor of English

• Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1975
• M.A., Northwestern University, 1971
• B.A., University of Virginia, 1970
  

CHRISTOPHER THAISS is Clark Kerr Presidential Chair and Director of the University Writing Program at the University of California at Davis. He holds a dual appointment as Professor of English and is a member of the Language, Literacy, and Culture Graduate Group. Until 2006, he was Professor of English at George Mason University, where he directed the composition and writing-across-the-curriculum (WAC) programs and served as chair of the English Department. In 2005, he received the University's David King Award for career contributions to teaching excellence. Active in the development of cross-curricular writing in colleges and universities since 1978, Thaiss coordinates the International Network of WAC Programs (INWAC) and works with teachers in the elementary, middle, and high schools through sites of the National Writing Project. He frequently consults on writing and conducts workshops on teaching and program development for schools and colleges. He has authored or co-authored eight books and edited three others; he serves on the editorial boards of Across the Disciplines, Inventio, and Writing on the Edge.

Publication Spotlight

Engaged Writers and Dynamic Disciplines: Research on the Academic Writing Life (Heinemann, 2006) By Chris Thaiss and Terry Myers Zawack

Selected Publications

Engaged Writers and Dynamic Disciplines: Research on the Academic Writing Life  (with Terry Myers Zawacki); Heinemann, 2006.

Composing a Community: A History of Writing across the Curriculum. Eds. McLeod and Soven. Parlor Press, 2006. Essays on the National Network of WAC Programs and the influence of the National Writing Project on the growth of writing across the curriculum; pp. 32-48 and 126-141.

ALT DIS: Alternative Discourses and the Academy. Eds. Schroeder, Fox, and Bizzell. Heinemann, 2002. “Questioning Alternative Discourse: Reports form across the Disciplines,” pp. 80-96.

WAC for the New Millennium: Strategies for Continuing Writing-across-the-Curriculum Programs (with Susan McLeod, Eric Miraglia, and Margot Soven); NCTE, 2001.

“Theory in WAC: Where have We Been? Where Are We Going?” in WAC for the New Millennium, pp. 299-325.

Writing about Theatre (with Rick Davis). Allyn and Bacon, 2000.

Email: cthaiss@ucdavis.edu Personal Page: http://writingprogram.ucdavis.edu/thaiss