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Bradley Peters

Professor
Undergraduate Program Director

Coordinator of Writing Across the Curriculum, Rhetoric and Composition

Office: RH 214
Phone: 753-6601
Email: bpeters@niu.edu

Educational Background


Ph.D. University of Iowa; 1992

M.S. State University College at Fredonia, NY; 1984

B.A. University of Arizona; 1974


Professional Interests


Writing Across the Curriculum

Writing Program Administration

History of Rhetoric

Medieval English mystics


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Selected Publications

  • "Lessons about Writing to Learn from a University-High School Partnership," Writing Program Administration 34.2 (Spring 2011): 59-88.
  • “Situating a University Writing Center in a Living-Learning Environment.” Composing Other Spaces. Ed. John Tassoni and Doug Powell. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2009. 185-202.
  • “Julian of Norwich’s Showings and the Ancrene Riwle: Two Rhetorical Configurations of Mysticism,” Rhetoric Review 27.4 (2008): 361-78.
  • “Portfolio Partnerships Between Faculty and WAC: Lessons from Disciplinary Practice, Reflection, and Transformation.” College Composition and Communication 59.2 (2007): 206-36. Co-authored with Julie Robertson.
  • “Documentation Strategies and the Institutional Socialization of Writing Centers.” The Writing Center Director’s Resource Book. Ed. Byron Stay and Christina Murphy. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 2006. 103-13.
  • “Queering the Conflicts” What LGBT Students Can Teach Us in the Classroom and Online.” Computers and Composition, special edition: Sexualities, Technologies, and Writing. Ed. Jonathan Alexander and William Banks. 21 (2004): 295-313. Co-authored with Diana Swanson.
  • Co-editor of Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning, with Joonna Trapp

Current Courses

CourseMeeting Days / Time / Room
Fall 2013ENGL 610.1 (details)
M / 6:00 - 8:40 / RH201
Fall 2013ENGL 628.P002 (details)
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Summer 2013ENGL 495.P1 (details)
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Spring 2013ENGL 628.P2 (details)
* / * /
Fall 2011ENGL 629.0001 (details)
T / 6:00-8:40 / RH 201
Spring 2012ENGL 300C.1 (details)
TTH / 12:30 - 1:45 / RH202
Spring 2012ENGL 628.P2 (details)
* / /
Spring 2012ENGL 625.1 (details)
M / 6:00 - 8:40 / rh207
Spring 2013ENGL 300C.00P2 (details)
TTH / 12:30 - 1:45 / RH 202
Fall 2012ENGL 628.2 (details)
* / /
Fall 2012ENGL 703.1 (details)
M / 6:00 - 8:40 / RH207