Sheryl Fontaine
Professor
Degrees
Ph.D. English and American Literature, specialization Composition Pedagogy & Theory University of California, San Diego
Research Areas
The discipline of composition, writing program administration, composing pedagogy, responding to writing, and the relationship between reading and writing.
Courses Regularly Taught
Composition and Rhetoric.
Publications
Fontaine, Sheryl I., and Cherryl Smith. Writing Your Way through College : A Student’s Guide. Heinemann, 2008.
Fontaine, Sheryl I., and Susan Hunter. Collaborative Writing in Composition Studies. Thomson/Wadsworth, 2006.
Belanoff, Pat, et al., editors. Writing With Elbow. University Press of Colorado, 2002.
Fontaine, Sheryl I., and Cherryl Smith. Shoptalk for College Writers. Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1999.
Fontaine, Sheryl I., and Susan Hunter. Foregrounding Ethical Awareness in Composition and English Studies. Boynton/Cook Publishers, 1998.
Fontaine, Sheryl I., and Susan Hunter. Writing Ourselves into the Story : Unheard Voices from Composition Studies. Southern Illinois University Press, 1993.
Belanoff, Pat, et al. Nothing Begins with N : New Investigations of Freewriting. Southern Illinois University Press, 1991.
Crouch, Mary K., and Fontaine, Sheryl. “Assessment’s role in strengthening core curriculum.” Changing college classrooms: ne teaching and learning strategies for an increasingly complex world, edited by Diane Halpern, Jossey-Bass, 1994.
Fontaine, Sheryl, and Hunter, Susan M. “From Graduate student to writing administrator: substantive training for sustainable future.” Culture Shock and the Practice of Profession: Training the Next Wave in Rhetoric and Composition, edited by Virginia Anderson and Susan Romano, Hampton Press. 2006.
Fontaine, Sheryl I. “Teaching with the Beginner’s Mind: Notes from My Karate Journal.” College Composition and Communication, vol. 54, no. 2, 2002, pp. 208–21. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/1512146. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
Fontaine, Sheryl I. “With Writers’ Eyes: Perception and Change in Manuscript Review Procedures.” Rhetoric Review, vol. 13, no. 2, 1995, pp. 259–64. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/465831. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
Fontaine, Sheryl I. “Finding Consistency and Speculating Change: What We Can Learn About Portfolio Assessment from the Writing Center.” The Writing Center Journal, vol. 16, no. 1, 1995, pp. 46–58. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/43441987. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
Fontaine, Sheryl I., and Susan Hunter. “Rendering the ‘Text’ of Composition.” Journal of Advanced Composition, vol. 12, no. 2, 1992, pp. 395–406. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20865866. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
Office Hours
Spring 2025
M 2:30pm-4:00pm
Th 1:00pm-2:30pm
