Background
Olson, Gary Andrew was born on December 12, 1954 in Waterbury, Connecticut, United States. Son of Joseph David and Charlotte (Anderson) Olson.
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The Gender Reader's fifty-one selections, all related to issues and questions of gender, are organized into five parts that address sub-themes within this broad and rich subject. The readings represent a balanced view of several gender-related topics and have been chosen to provide a background for rich discussion and thoughtful essays. The issues raised throughout the book are designed to provide readers with opportunities for personal and reflective writing as well as expository and argumentative writing. For anyone interested in issues of gender for balanced writing.
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"...Composition Theory for the Postmodern Classroom comes into place at a critical moment. We have worked assiduously to flesh out the ways and means of composition for a new era. This text helps to document our way." --Jones Royster, from the Foreword Composition Theory for the Postmodern Classroom is a collection of the most outstanding articles published in the Journal of Advanced Composition over the last decade. Together these essays represent the breadth and strength of composition scholarship that has fruitfully engaged with critical theory in its many manifestations. In drawing on the critical discourses of philosophers, feminists, literary theorists, African Americanists, cultural theorists, and others, these compositionists have enriched the discourse in the field, broadened intellectual conceptions of the multiple roles and functions of discourse, and opened up an infinite number of questions and new possibilities for composition theory and pedagogy. "JAC has been a central resource for the presentation and consideration of 'theory' in composition studies. These essays act as springboards for reflecting on the ways in which we interrogate and problematize in this discourse community. "As I read the collection of essays, I was frequently reminded that despite seemingly indefinite variation in the circumstances of teaching, composition teachers do not treat theory as a refuge from practice, but value instead what it can tell them about writing and writing pedagogy. I hear in these essays echoes of an inclination to reject precepts that ignore writing and teaching in the name of common sense, and I see traces on the paths taken of the uncommon intention to practice and teach writing--for a change." -- Linda Brodkey, from the Afterword
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academic administrator English language professor
Olson, Gary Andrew was born on December 12, 1954 in Waterbury, Connecticut, United States. Son of Joseph David and Charlotte (Anderson) Olson.
Bachelor, Kings College, 1976. Master of Arts, University Connecticut, 1978. Doctor of Philosophy, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 1980.
Instructor University Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1980-1982. Assistant professor University North Carolina, Wilmington, 1982-1985, University South Florida, Tampa, 1985-1987, associate professor, 1987-1992, professor English, since 1992, coordinator graduate program in rhetoric and composition, 1995—2002, interim director University Publications Council, 1995—1998, chief academic officer St. Petersburg, 2002—2004. Dean College Arts & Sciences Illinois State University, Normal, 2004—2009.
Provost, vice president academic affairs Idaho State University, since 2009. Member executive committee Conference on College Composition and Communications, since 1992. Monthly columnist Chronicle Higher Education, since 2006.
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Founding president Southeastern Writing Center Association, 1981-1983. Member Modern Language Association, National Council Teachers English, Conference on College Composition and Communications, Association Teachers of Advanced Composition, Rhetoric Society of America (board directors 1990-1994), South Atlantic Modern Language Association.
Married Marlyne Salitsky, June 3, 1978 (divorced June 1993). Married Lynn Worsham June 19, 2004.