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Heather Lindenman

Associate Professor of English

Department: English

Office and address: Alamance Building, Office 309C 2338 พรพรศศ Box Elon, NC 27244

Phone number: (336) 278-6663

Professional Expertise

Writing & Rhetorical Studies, Community-Engaged Writing, Writing & Transfer, Life Writing, Writing Pedagogy

Brief Biography

Heather Lindenman's research interests include community literacy, writing across academic and non-academic contexts, service-learning in composition, and transfer of writing-related knowledge. She has taught classes related to community writing, grant writing, writing center theory and practice, and multimedia rhetorics. She directs the First-Year Writing Program at Elon.

News & Notes

Education

Ph.D., English, University of Maryland

M.A., English, Middlebury College, Bread Loaf School

B.A., English, Williams College, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Courses Taught

ENG1100 Writing: Argument and Inquiry

ENG2090 Writing Studies Survey

ENG1000 Supplemental Writing Workshop

ENG4890 Teaching and Learning Apprenticeship

ECF1110 Paths of Inquiry in the Arts and Sciences

COR4170 Literacy and Power

PWR2120 Multimedia Rhetorics

PWR3210 Writing Grants

PWR3230 Writing Civic Action

HNR2360 Rewriting Climate Change

Publications

Computers and Composition, vol. 75, 2025, pp. 1-14. With Greg Hlavaty and Travis Maynard.

Composition Studies, vol. 52, no. 1, 2024, pp. 47-68. With Margaret Chapman, Jennifer Eidum, Lina Kuhn, and Li Li.

Written Communication, vol. 41, no. 1, 2024, pp. 70-106. With Dana Lynn Driscoll, Andrea Efthymiou, Matthew Pavesich, and Jennifer Reid.

College Composition and Communication, vol. 74, no. 1, 2022, pp. 84-112.

WPA: Writing Program Administration, vol. 44, no. 1, 2020, pp. 17-44. With Paula Rosinksi.

Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric, vol. 19, no. 2, 2020, pp. 240-268. With Adam Hubrig, Justin Lohr, and Rachael W. Shah.

Community Literacy Journal, vol. 13, no. 1, 2018, pp. 71-86. With Justin Lohr.

College Composition and Communication, vol. 69, no. 4, 2018, pp. 581-611. With Martin Camper, Jessica Enoch, and Lindsay Dunne Jacoby.

 Reflections: A Journal of Community-Engaged Writing and Rhetoric, vol. 18, no. 1, 2018, pp. 8-38. With Justin Lohr.

"From the Center to the Sidelines: Responsive Leadership in a High School-College Writing Partnership." In Writing for Engagement: Responsive Practice for Social Action, edited by Mary P. Sheridan, Megan J. Bardolph, Megan Faver Hartline, and Drew Holladay, Lexington Press, 2018, pp. 153-166.

Composition Forum, vol. 31, 2015. 

Awards

Kernodle Center for Civic Life Outstanding Faculty Member Award, 2022

NC Humanities Community Engagement Grant, 2022

CATL Teaching and Learning Grant, 2017

Community Partnership Initiative Grant, 2017 and 2020

CCCC Chairs Memorial Scholarship, 2015

Foxworth Creative Enterprise Initiative Award (University of Maryland), 2014 

Rise Above Grant (University of Maryland), 2013 

James A. Robinson Award for Excellence in Teaching (University of Maryland), 2012