Elisabeth Buck
Assistant Professor / Director, Multiliteracy & Communication Center
English & Communication
Contact
508-999-8284
ebuck@umassd.edu
Liberal Arts 325
Education
| 2016 | Ball State University | PhD |
| 2012 | University of Nevada, Reno | MA |
| 2010 | Loyola Marymount University | BA |
Teaching
- Writing/Multiliteracy Center Theory and Practice
- Public Relations/Professional Writing
- Digital and Social Media
- First-Year English
Research
Research interests
- Writing Center/Writing Program Administration
- Digital Literacies
- Public Writing/Discourse
- Rhetoric(s) of Popular Culture
Select publications
Buck, Elisabeth H. (2018).
“From CRLA to For-Credit Course: The New Director’s Guide to Assessing Tutor Education.”
How We Teach Writing Tutors: A WLN Digital Edited Collection, edited by Karen G. Johnson and Ted Roggenbuck
Buck, Elisabeth H. (2017).
Open-Access, Multimodality, and Writing Center Studies (monograph)
Elisabeth H. Buck (2015).
"Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter—Oh My!: Assessing the Efficacy of the Rhetorical Composing Situation with FYC Students as Advanced Social Media Practitioners."
Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 19.3
Dr. Buck received her PhD in English, Rhetoric and Writing from Ball State University. She is the author of Open-Access, Multimodality, and Writing Center Studies, a work that uses historiographic, quantitative, and qualitative analysis to argue that writing center scholarship exists as a microcosm of many of the larger issues at play in the contemporary academic publishing landscape. Dr. Buck also researches and teaches topics related to public writing/discourse, social media, and the rhetoric(s) of popular culture. Dr. Buck sees both her scholarly and pedagogical interests manifest in her role as Director of the Multiliteracy & Communication Center, a tutoring center that helps all UMassD students grow as independent and confident communicators—on the written page and across a variety of current and emerging platforms and technologies.