Dr. Ellen Foster
DEGREES EARNED / CERTIFICATIONS / PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
- Certificate in Technical Writing and Communication, University of California Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Extension, 2015
- Ph.D. in English, Duquesne University, 2005
- M.A. in English, Slippery Rock University, 1992
- B.S. in Health Planning and Administration, The Pennsylvania State University, 1986
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PRIMARY COURSES TAUGHT
- ENG 110 and 111: First-year writing
- ENG 273: Writing in the Health and Human Sciences Professions
- ENG 283: English Grammar and Usage
- ENG 318: Literature and Medicine
- ENG 319: Literature of Aging English
- ENG 320: Literature of (Dis)Abilities
- ENG 371: Workplace Writing
- INQ 100: Inquiry Seminar
Other courses include Honors writing and special topics in the humanities.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Pedagogy of composition
- Medical humanities
- Technical writing
MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS / PRESENTATIONS
- Co-editor, Broadview Press edition of "Clarence; or, A Tale of Our Own Times" (1830), by Catharine Maria Sedgwick.
- Editor, H-Pennsylvania
HONORS AND AWARDS
- Honorable Mention for the Broadview Press edition of "Clarence," Society for the Study of American Women Book Prize, 2012
- Society for the Study of American Woman Writers
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
- English Association of the Pennsylvania State Universities
- The Nathaniel Hawthorne Society