English's Rebecca Lorimer Leonard Co-Authors New Book "Writing Knowledge Transfer"

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Associate Professor of English Rebecca Lorimer Leonard recently co-authored a book, "Writing Knowledge Transfer: Theory, Research, Pedagogy," written with Angela Rounsaville and Rebecca Nowacek. Published with Parlor Press, the book is available open-access through a Creative Commons license in collaboration with Colorado State University and the WAC Clearinghouse. 

"Writing Knowledge Transfer: Theory, Research, Pedagogy" traces the concept of transfer within writing studies and across fields as diverse as cognitive psychology; sports, medical, and aviation education; second language writing; and school-to-work research, offering kinship across disciplines to suggest new transfer questions and lines of inquiry.

Leonard has been on the faculty of UMass Amherst’s English Department since 2012. She holds a Ph.D. in English from the program in composition and rhetoric at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; a master's degree in English from San Francisco State University; and a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Southern California. Her research is situated at the intersection of literacy studies, multilingual writing, and language ideologies.