faculty

Eli Evans, PhD he/him/his

Associate Teaching Professor

English & Communication

Contact

508-999-8274

eevans@umassd.edu

Balsam Hall 9167

Education

2013

University of California Santa Barbara

PhD

2008

Art Center College of Design

2001

University of Arizona

MFA

1998

University of Wisconsin

Teaching

First-Year Writing
Literature
Creative Writing
Theory and Criticism

Teaching

Programs

English BA

Teaching

Courses

ENL 102: Critical Writing & Reading II

Synthesis-focused course that builds on ENL 101. Students sharpen analytical skills by reading complex texts across public and academic genres. Students also create individual research questions, build college-level research skills, compose sophisticated syntheses, and revise their own argumentative, academic contributions to a defined conversation. Students leave the course prepared for intermediate reading and writing tasks in a broad variety of disciplines as well as with improved research skills and the reflective habits of successful, life-long learners.

ENL 260: Intermediate Composition

A course emphasizing the development of skill in organizing materials, the formation of a lively and concrete style and an authentic personal voice, and the growth of useful techniques in the arts of exposition, persuasion, and argumentation.

ENL 266: Technical Communication

Introduction to the technical communication skills used in business and industry. Students practice techniques for creating, managing, and presenting information in written, oral, visual, and electronic forms and use a variety of tools to research and collaborate on projects that relate to many audiences, purposes, forms, and formats of technical communication.

HON 202: Transformative American Ideas

Investigation of important North American contributions to human civilization, from Jazz and the airplane, to nuclear weapons and Cheese Wiz, to individual rights, the written constitution and the democratic republic. Topics could include Coming Down with the Blues; building the car, or the plane, Hollywood and the Invention of mass cinema; from inalienable rights to human rights; the Long 1960s as Cultural Revolution. May be repeated with change of content.

LAR 201: Intro to Multidisc Studies

An introduction to the writing, research and communications skills required in multidisciplinary studies, which includes a study of the humanities and social sciences as disciplines. Students will learn about the various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, read and analyze texts from the humanities and social sciences, and develop critical understanding of disciplinary research practices for the humanities and social sciences.