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
BOOKS
Sheryl I. Fontaine and Steven Westbrook, Eds. Lenses on Composition Studies. ; Parlor Press, 2010-2017.
Sheryl I. Fontaine and Cherryl Smith. Writing Your Way Through College. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann/Boynton-Cook, 2008.
Sheryl I. Fontaine and Susan M. Hunter. A Guide to Collaborative Writing in Composition. Boston, MA: Wadsworth, 2004.
Pat Belanoff, Marcia Dickson, Sheryl I. Fontaine, and Charles Moran, Eds. Writing with Peter: A Collection of Essays in Honor of Peter Elbow . Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2002.
Sheryl I. Fontaine and Cherryl Smith. Shoptalk for College Writers. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace, 1999.
Sheryl I. Fontaine and Susan Hunter, Eds. Foregrounding Ethical Awareness in Composition and English Studies. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann/Boynton-Cook, 1998.
Sheryl I. Fontaine and Susan Hunter, Eds. Writing Ourselves into the Story: Unheard Voices from Composition Studies. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1993.
Pat Belanoff, Peter Elbow, and Sheryl I. Fontaine, Eds.
Nothing Begins with N: New Investigations of Freewriting.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991.
PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
“How to be a Dean? Prepare for a Pandemic.” Academic Trajectories (So You Want to be a Dean?): Pathways to the Deanship. Eds. Kate Conley and Shaily Menon. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2022.
“Closing the Deal with Hamlet’s Help: Assessing the Instrumental Value of the English Degree.” (with Stephen J. Mexal). College English 76.4 (2014): 357-378.
“The Starbucks Myth: Measuring the Worth of the English Major.” (with Stephen Mexal). ADE Bulletin, 152 (2012): 36-46.
“Inviting Students into Composition Studies with a New Instructional Genre.” (with Susan Hunter) Culture Shock: Training the New Wave in Rhetoric and Composition. Eds. Virginia Anderson and Susan Romano. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2005.
“Teaching with a Beginner’s Mind: Notes from my Karate Journal.” College Composition and Communication, 2002.
“Introduction.” (with Pat Belanoff, Marcia Dickson, Sheryl I. Fontaine, and Charles Moran) in Writing with Peter: A Collection of Essays in Honor of Peter Elbow. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2002.
“Interchapter.” in Writing with Peter: A Collection of Essays in Honor of Peter Elbow. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2002.
“Transforming Connections and Building Bridges: Assigning, Reading, and Evaluating the Collage Essay” (co-authored with Francie Quaas). Teaching Writing Creatively. Ed. David Starkey. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Heinemann, 1998.
“Ethical Awareness: A Process of Inquiry” (co-authored with Susan M. Hunter). Foregrounding Ethical Awareness in Composition and English Studies. Eds. Sheryl I. Fontaine and Susan M. Hunter. Portsmouth, NH, 1998.
“Revising Administrative Models and Questioning the Value of Appointing Graduate Student WPAs” Ethical Awareness in Composition and English Studies. Eds. Sheryl I. Fontaine and Susan M. Hunter. Portsmouth, NH, 1998.
"Finding Consistency and Speculating Change: What We Can Learn About Portfolio Assessment from the Writing Center" Writing Center Journal, 16.1 (Fall 1995): 46-58.
"With Writers' Eyes: Perception and Change in Manuscript Review Procedures." Rhetoric Review, 13.2 (Spring 1995): 259-264.
"Using Portfolios to Contextualize Writing Assessment" (co-authored with Mary Kay Crouch). Changing College Classrooms: The Challenge of Educating Students for the 21st Century. Ed. Diane F. Halpern. NY: Jossey-Bass, 1993.
"Rendering the 'Text' of Composition" (co-authored with Susan Hunter). Journal of Advanced Composition , 12.2 (Fall 1992): 395-406.
"Resuscitating a Terminal Degree: A Reconceptualization of the M.A. in Composition." Writing Ourselves Into the Story: Unheard Voices from Composition Studies. Eds. Sheryl I. Fontaine and Susan Hunter. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1993: 322-334.
"Taking the Risk to be Heard" (co-authored with Susan Hunter). Writing Ourselves Into the Story: Unheard Voices from Composition Studies. Eds. Sheryl I. Fontaine and Susan Hunter. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1993: 1-17.
"Introduction" (co-authored with Pat Belanoff and Peter Elbow) Nothing Begins with N: New Investigations of Freewriting. Eds. Pat Belanoff, Peter Elbow and Sheryl I. Fontaine. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991: xi-xviii.
"Recording and Transforming: The Mystery of the 10 Minute Freewrite." Nothing Begins with N: New Investigations of Freewriting. Eds. Pat Belanoff, Peter Elbow and Sheryl I. Fontaine. Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 1991: 3-15.
"Unprivileged Voices in the Academy of the Privileged" (co-authored with John Peavoy and Susan Hunter). Freshman English News , 19.1 (October 1990): 2-8.
"We have Ways to Make You Talk: Using Verbal Reports to Learn about Children's Audience Awareness in Writing." Educational Research Quarterly, 13.3 (Fall 1990): 26-35.
"The Power of Naming: Names that Create and Define the Discipline." (co-authored with Cherryl Armstrong). WPA: Writing Program Administration , 13.1-2 (Fall 1989): 5-14.
"The Unfinished Story of the Interpretive Community." Rhetoric Review , 7.1 (Fall 1988): 86-96.
"Using What They Know: Nine-, Thirteen-, and Eighteen-Year-Olds Writing for Different Audiences." The Social Construction of Written Communication. Eds. Ben Rafoth and Don Rubin. New Jersey: Ablex, 1988: 99-116.
Review of F unctional Approaches to Writing: Research Perspectives , ed. Barbara Couture. ADE Bulletin , 87 (Fall 1987): 53-54.
"Audience and the Interpersonal Function of Writing." Educational Research Information Clearinghouse , 1987.
"A View from the Other Side of the Desk." The English Record , 2.2 (1985).
"Evidence of Audience Awareness in the Writing and Writing Processes of Nine- and Eighteen-Year Olds." Educational Research Information Clearinghouse , 1985.
Office Hours
Fall 2026
To Be Determined
