Professor Eleanor Kutz’s scholarship focuses on issues of pedagogy, discourse, literacy, and composition, with four books and numerous articles in these areas. In Language and Literacy: Studying Discourse in Communities and Classrooms (Heinemann Boynton/Cook, 1997) she offers an introduction to the formal study of language and to discourse analysis, interwoven with her own research into the communication of adolescents in a multicultural community and the research of UMB upper-level undergraduate and graduate students into the discourse practices of their own communities and classrooms. The book received a national Choice award as an "Outstanding Academic Book" in the area of language and literature. In Exploring Literacy (Longman, 2004) she guides freshman composition students in applying understandings of discourse and discourse communities to their study of their own communities and of the worlds that are created in literary texts. More recently, her work has focused on the intersection of technology and literacy and has included guiding the development of an interactive website for English department courses at UMB and offering courses and workshops for teachers that focus on reframing our understandings of literacy in contemporary contexts and using technology in the teaching of English.
Online Courses Taught:
ENGL443 Language and Literacy
ENGL613 Teaching English with Technology
