Ocotillo Textbook & Technology Day 2005
September 16, 2005, 8:00am - 4:00pm, Mesa Community College
Text & Tech Authors: Christine A. Hult
Dr. Hult is Professor of English at Utah State University in Logan, Utah, where she has been teaching and working as an administrator for the past twenty years. Before coming to USU, she was the director of writing at Texas Tech University. Currently, she serves as the Associate Dean in the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Prior to that appointment, she served for ten years as Associate Department Head in the English Department.
She teaches in the writing, honors, and English education programs, including an online graduate course in online pedagogy. Professor Hult's research interests include computers in the writing classroom, research writing, program and teacher assessment, and women in academia. She has published 12 books, 12 chapters in edited collections, and over 30 articles in various composition journals including WPA, Computers and Composition, the Journal of Advanced Composition, The Writing Instructor, and Liberal Education.
She served as the Principle Investigator for several grants which supported the design of an online version of English 1010 and English 2010 and the development of a teacher education program focusing on computers in the writing classroom. She has authored or co-authored several very successful writing textbooks: The New Century Handbook, 3ed and The Brief New Century Handbook, 3ed (Longman 2005, with Thomas Huckin), Researching and Writing Across the Curriculum, 3ed (Longman, 2005), three writing in the disciplines textbooks (Longman 1996), A Writer's Introduction to Word Processing (Wadsworth, 1987), and Readings from Across the Curriculum (Longman 1997).
