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Laura Brady
Professor of English & Eberly Family Professor of Outstanding Teaching Director, Center for Writing Excellence Ph.D., University of Minnesota Office: 103 Colson Hall Tel: 293-9706 Fax: 293-5380 Email: lbrady@wvu.edu |
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Specializations:
Composition and Rhetorical Theory
Writing Program Administration
Laura Brady directs the Center for Writing Excellence (CWE) within the Department of English. The CWE oversees writing programs that serve some 8,000 undergraduate students a year, provides leadership for curriculum and program design, maintains and strengthens faculty development, and pursues support for undergraduate writing activities. Brady and her CWE colleagues Brian Ballentine, Jo Ann Dadisman, Jay Dolmage, Catherine Gouge, Nathalie Singh-Corcoran, and Scott Wible have worked together to establish a tutoring center; create an MA in Professional Writing and Editing (the first in the state); initiate distance writing courses for non-traditional students; and collaborate with K-16 teachers to promote writing through the National Writing Project at WVU.
Her articles on the teaching of writing, writing program administration, and writing theory have appeared in Computers and Composition, Writing on the Edge, WPA: Journal of the Council of Writing Program Administrators, the Journal of Business and Technical Communication, and in several edited collections.
She holds an Eberly Professorship for Outstanding Teaching. In 2004-2005, she was named CASE Professor of the Year for West Virginia by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. In 2008 she received the first Caperton Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Writing—an award made possible by former WV Governor Gaston Caperton.