Assistant Professor
Focus: Composition/Rhetoric
Contact Information
(518) 694-7261
laura.rogers@acphs.edu
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EDUCATION
- D.A. in English, State University of New York at Albany
COURSES TAUGHT AT ACPHS
- Principles of Communication
- American Women Writers
- Crime and Punishment in Fiction and Film
- Fiction and Film
- Creative Writing
- Contemporary American Literature
- Writing Center Director
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Writing Center Theory and Practice, Critical Literacy, 19th Century American Women Writers, Feminist Film Theory
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Rogers L. The Arthur Kill Alliance: Prison Newspapers and Writing Education. In Prison Pedagogies: Learning and Teaching With Imprisoned Writers. Ed. Joseph Lockard and Sherry Rankins- Robertson, Syracuse University Press: 2018, 190-206.
"Finding Our Way From Within: Critical Teaching in a Prison Writing Class". Under review:Open Words, Ed. John Tassoni and William Thelin.
"When Lifelines Converge: Voices From the Forest Creative Writing Group". Reflections: A Journal of Service Learning, Special Issue on Prison Literacies, Narratives, and Community Connections, Vol IV, no 1, Winter 2004.
"Disruptions, Differences, and Bakhtin’s Dialogic". Stories From the Center, ed. Lynne Craigue Briggs and Meg Woolbright, NCTE, 1999.
“Alice Cary,” in Nineteenth-Century American Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, Ed. Denise D. Knight, Greenwood Press, 1997.
CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS
Rogers L. The Interstitial Spaces of Prison Publication: The Arthur Kill Alliance and Empire. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Kansas City MO, March 14-18, 2018.
Rogers L, Evans S, Pluckrose D, Sanders M. When Theory Is Not Enough: Writing Center Tutors in a School of Health Sciences Use Assessment Data to Inspire Change in Tutoring and Institutional Practices. Northeast Writing Centers Association Conference, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester MA, March 24-25, 2018.
Rogers L. If We Knew Our History: Looking to the Past, Building on the Future. National Conference on Higher Education in Prison, Indianapolis IN, November 9-11, 2018.