Katherine K. Gottschalk

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

The Walter C. Teagle Director of First-Year Writing Seminars and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, Katherine K. Gottschalk has taught at Cornell University since 1977, joining the administration of the Knight Institute in 1982 and assuming the position of Director of First-Year Writing Seminars in 1988. Gottschalk took her B.A., M.A. and Ph.D at the University of Chicago. Her dissertation on Harleian MS. 6910 provides the definitive study of this poetical miscellany; the findings were published in Modern Philology. As director of Cornell’s First-Year Writing Seminars, Gottschalk attends to the administrative needs of this far-ranging program. She is a recipient of the Clark Award for Distinguished Teaching.

Gottschalk’s most recent publications include a book, The Elements of Teaching Writing: A Resource for Instructors in All Disciplines (Bedford, 2004), co-authored with her colleague, Keith Hjortshoj, director of Cornell’s Writing in the Majors program, and an essay on response: “The Ecology of Response to Student Essays” (ADE Bulletin, 2003). Other recent publications concern writing program administration: “‘You Are the Writing Program’: An Historical Perspective on TAs and the Teaching of Writing at Cornell,” in Local Knowledges, Local Practices: Cultures of Writing at Cornell (ed. Jonathan Monroe; U. Pittsburgh Press, 2003); "Contact Zones: Composition's Content in the University" (in Professing in the Contact Zone: Bringing Theory and Practice Together, ed. Janice M. Wolff, NCTE, 2002); “Preparing Teachers of Writing Across the Curriculum at Cornell” (in Preparing College Teachers of Writing: Histories, Theories, Programs, and Practices, eds. Sarah Liggett and Betty Pytlik, Oxford, 2001). Her article “The Writing Program in the University” (ADE Bulletin, Winter, 1995) has been reprinted in The Allyn & Bacon Sourcebook for Writing Program Administrators (ed. Irene Ward and William Carpenter, 2002).