Tara Pauliny
Affiliated Faculty; Director and Senior Lecturer, Writing Program
Faculty Bio
Tara Pauliny is the Director of the Writing Program. She earned her PhD in rhetoric and composition/English from the Ohio State University in 2002 and has served as a faculty member and writing program administrator at several academic institutions. She has taught courses in writing, rhetoric, gender studies, and liberal studies and has been a Writing Center Director, Director of Writing Programs, Writing Across the Curriculum Director, and Academic Director of Liberal Studies.
Research Areas
Tara's research interests include feminist and queer rhetorics, rhetorics of the body, writing program administration, queer writing studies, and contemplative pedagogy. In 2016 she published Neoliberal Rhetorics and Body Politics: Plastinate Exhibits as Infiltration with Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield; her scholarship has also appeared in a variety of academic journals and edited collections. Tara believes deeply in collaboration, critical contemplation, and learning alongside her students and colleagues.