Dr. Amy A. Childers
ENGL 1102 Composition II Dr. Childers holds a B.A. (1993) and M.A. (1995) in English from Eastern Kentucky University, and a Ph.D. (2002) in Discourse Studies/Rhetoric & Composition from Texas A&M University.

She is the Director of First-Year Composition and teaches a range of writing courses, from Freshman to Advanced Composition. Other courses she teaches are Business Communication, the Senior Seminar for Writing Majors, and the Rhetoric of Humor.

She is the Coordinator for the Visiting Author Series, and a Faculty Senator.  Dr. Childers is also the faculty advisor for Mountain Laurels, the NGCSU Student Art & Literary Magazine.

She has published on Kenneth Burke and Virginia Woolf (Academic Exchange Quarterly), and Written Voice (Composition Studies). She is currently working on two books: a book on Written Voice and The Artist as Activist in Appalachia.

Little known facts: She interned as a Technical Writer at IBM/Tivoli Division for three summers during graduate school (1998-2000). Her guilty pleasures are corny jokes and Science Fiction.

 
 
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Dr. Amy A. Childers

Assistant Professor of English,

Rhetoric & Composition

Department of English

Dunlap Hall 314-C

achilders@ngcsu.edu

Phone: (706) 864-1961

Fax: (706) 864-1485

1102 Syllabus
1102 Annotated Bibliography
1102 Research paper
1102 Rhetorical Precís
1102 Grade Tally
1102 Literary Terms