Howard Tinberg
Division of Humanities and Education
Professor of English
Office: B215
Extension: x2317
Education:
Ph.D, Brandeis University
B.A., M.A., UCLA;
Philosophy:
Over the years, I've published a lot of essays for teachers encouraging them to use what happens in their classrooms as material for research. I believe deeply in what is called the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, a movement that tries to promote really thoughtful approaches to classroom instruction.
Courses Taught:
ENG 101 Composition I: College Writing
ENG 102 Composition II: Writing about Literature
ENG 253 English Literature I
ENG 254 English Literature II
ENG 262 Tutoring in a Writing Center: A Practicum and Honors Course
ENG 264 Remembering the Holocaust in Literature and History: An Honors Interdisciplinary Seminar
Affiliations:
National Council of Teachers of English, International Writing Centers Association, Conference on College Composition and Communication
Publications:
Books
What is “College-Level” Writing II?.
Urbana, IL:
National Council of Teachers of English, 2010.
The Community College Writer: Exceeding Expectations.
with Jean-Paul Nadeau.
Carbondale, IL:
Southern Illinois UP, 2010.
What is 'College-Level' Writing.
Urbana, IL:
National Council of Teachers of English, 2006.
Writing with Concequence: What Writing Does in the Disciplines.
New York:
Pearson, 2003.
Writing and Knowing in the Two-Year College.
Urbana, IL:
National Council of Teachers of English, 1997.
Chapters
“Examining our Assumptions as Gatekeepers: A Two-Year College
Perspective.”
Administrative Problem-Solving for Writing Programs and Writing Centers
1999
“Deep-Play': Reading Culture in the Writing Classroom.”
Teaching Critical Writing: Reports from Across the Curriculum
1993
Journal Articles
“Kegan’s Theory of Development Applied to Community College Students.”
with Sally Gabb, Ronald Weisberger.
The Oxford Handbook of Lifelong Learning
2011
“From 'Self-Righteous Researcher' to 'Fellow Teacher'.”
College Composition and Communication
2006
: 262-266.
“In the Land of the Cited.”
Pedagogy
2006
: 397-403.
“The Teacher/Scholar: Definition/Rationale/Challenges.”
with Frank Madden.
Report of the Committee on the Teacher Scholar
2005
“Taking (and Teaching) the Shoah Personally.”
College English
Sept.
2005
: 72-89.
“Teaching in the Spaces Between: What Basic Writers Can Teach Us.”
Journal of Basic Writing
1999
: 76-90.
“In Over Our Heads: Applying Robert KeganÌs Theory of Development to the Community College Classroom.”
with Ronald Weisberger.
Community College Review
1998
: 43-56.
“Theory as Healing.”
Teaching English in the Two-Year College
1997
: 10-17.
“What is Composition and Why Do We Teach It?.”
Teaching English in the Two-Year College
1997
: 158-162.
“Responding to Student Writing.”
LAANE Newsletter
1996
: 3.
“Knowin' Nothin' about History: The Challenge of Tutoring in a Multi-Disciplinary Writing Lab.”
with Greg Cupples.
The Writing Lab Newsletter
Nov
1996
: 12-14.
“We Do Theory, Too: Community Colleges and the New Century.”
College English
1995
: 65-69.
“A Comment on 'Connecting Literature to Students' Lives.”
College English
1994
: 356-357.
“Teachers and Students 'In the Field': What We Have (Re-)Learned from Anthropology.”
ERIC ED 331 074
1993
“Border-Crossings: Shaping the Academic Conversation.”
Advanced Composition Forum
1993
: 8-11.
“Seeing Ourselves Differently: Remaking Research and Scholarship at the Community College.”
Teaching English in the Two-Year College
1992
: 12-17.
“An Enlargement of Observation': More on Theory-Building in the Composition Classroom.”
College Composition and Communication
1991
: 36-44.
“On-line Writing Instruction.”
OnLine
1991
: 4.
“An African Fable and Other Stories Our Students Could Tell.”
English Record
1990
: 30-33.
“A Model of Theory-Making for Writing Teachers: Local Knowledge.”
Teaching English in the Two-Year College
1990
: 18-23.
“Ethnography in the Writing Classroom.”
College Composition and Communication
1989
: 79-82.
“At Home On the Range: Diary of an ETS Reader.”
English Record
1988
: 14-17.
“On Reading Freire and Macedo's Literacy.”
Correspondences
1988
: 1-2.
“Language and Estrangement: Lessons from the People's Republic of China.”
English Journal
1986
: 46-50.
Magazine Articles
“The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at the Two-Year College: Promise and Peril.”
with Donna Killian Murphey and Jack Mino.
Change
2007
: 26-33.
Newsletter Articles
“The Distinctive Challenges Facing Writing Centers at Public Two-Year Colleges: Will the Center Hold?.”
Writing Lab Newsletter
2002
“Becoming Politic: When Writing Center Directors Propose Tutor Training Courses..”
Writing Lab Newsletter
2002
“Writing a Book on the (Two-Year College) Job.”
ADE Bulletin
2002
Reviews
Review of Writing With: New Directions in Collaborative Teaching, Learning, and Research,
Teaching English in the Two-Year College
1996
: 315-316.
Review of Collaborative Learning: Higher Education, Interdependence, and the Authority of Knowledge,
Teaching English in the Two-Year College
1995
: 151-152.
Review of Two-Year College English: Essays for a New Century,
Teaching English in the Two-Year College
1994
: 159-160.
Review of The Academic Crisis of the Community College,
Teaching English in the Two-Year College
1992
: 229-290.
Awards:
2004 Carnegie/CASE Community Colleges Professor of the Year
Carnegie Scholar, 2005-06
Interests:
Writing in the disciplines; scholarship of teaching and learning; integrated learning
