Coordinator of Composition at Kutztown University
Greater Philadelphia Area
- Current
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- Associate Professor, Composition at Kutztown University
- Coordinator of Composition at Kutztown University
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- Assistant Professor, Composition at Kutztown University
- Visiting Professor at George Mason University
- Instructor at George Washington University
- Ph.D. Student/Teaching Assistant at Miami University
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- Miami University
- Syracuse University
- Syracuse University
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Kevin Mahoney’s Summary
I am currently the Coordinator of Composition in the English Department at Kutztown University. My job entails promoting a student-centered and process-oriented approach to the teaching of writing, broadening faculty understanding of the field of composition and rhetoric, and promoting a writing culture at Kutztown University. I also run our Directed Self-Placement program, which assists about 2000 incoming students choose their first-year composition courses.
Publications: Democracies to Come: Rhetorical Action, Neoliberalism and Communities of Resistance. Lexington Books (division of Rowman and Littlefield), May 2008. Co-authored with Rachel Riedner of the George Washington University.
I am also an Executive Committee member of our faculty union, APSCUF-KU.
Kevin Mahoney’s Specialties:
Rhetorical theory, democratic theory and rhetoric, union organization and strategy, composition theory, critical teaching, public rhetoric.
Kevin Mahoney’s Experience
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Associate Professor, Composition
Kutztown University
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
July 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)
After defending my dissertation in April 2002, I took a position as an Assistant Professor of Composition at Kutztown University. In 2007, I received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor.
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Coordinator of Composition
Kutztown University
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
July 2004 — Present (5 years 1 month)
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Assistant Professor, Composition
Kutztown University
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
August 2002 — July 2007 (5 years)
After defending my dissertation in April 2002, I took a position as an Assistant Professor of Composition at Kutztown University. In 2007, I received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor.
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Visiting Professor
George Mason University
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; GMU; Higher Education industry)
August 2001 — May 2002 (10 months)
Full-time, temporary position teaching composition and rhetoric
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Instructor
George Washington University
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
August 1999 — May 2001 (1 year 10 months)
Adjunct faculty member, composition and rhetoric
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Ph.D. Student/Teaching Assistant
Miami University
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
1995 — 1999 (4 years)
Kevin Mahoney’s Education
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Miami University
Ph.D. , Composition and Rhetoric , 1995 — 2002
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Syracuse University
MA , English , 1993 — 1995
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Syracuse University
BA , Political Science , 1987 — 1991
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Kevin Mahoney’s Interests:
rhetoric, new literacies, politics of language and literacy, globalization, critical teaching, rhetorical action, new technologies, writing
Kevin Mahoney’s Groups:
APSCUF (Executive Committee)
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Miami University Alumni Association
Kevin Mahoney’s Honors:
Schellenberg Outstanding Faculty Award
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