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DAVID D. COOPER
Professor
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
517/432-2584 (office); 517/353-5250 (fax)
teaching interests: public culture studies, rhetoric and civic culture, service-learning in the humanities, literary nonfiction
courses: WRA 135 Writing: Public Life in America, WRA 493: Professional Editing and Publishing Practicum, UP 400: Writing in the Public Interest
Cooper received his PhD in American Studies from Brown University. He specializes in public culture studies and rhetoric in the public interest. Author or editor of four books, Cooper’s essays, articles, and commentaries on education for democracy, service-learning in the humanities, the land grant tradition, and civic education and the language arts have appeared in numerous journals and national magazines such as the Michigan Journal of Community Service-Learning, American Behavioral Scientist, About Campus, Composition Chronicle, and Higher Education Exchange. As a practicing public scholar, Cooper edits reports and proceedings for the Bipartisan Urban Caucus of the Michigan House of Representatives and the Michigan Partnership for Economic Development.
In 1999, Cooper received the national Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning, awarded by the Campus Compact and the American Association of Higher Education for “exemplary leadership and scholarship in advancing service-learning as a teacher, a researcher, and a community partner.” He is a Research Associate for the Kettering Foundation’s national seminar on Deliberative Democracy and Higher Education, and a member of the Kellogg Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good (University of Michigan). Cooper co-edits Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction. His literary nonfiction has appeared in national journals and magazines, including DoubleTake.
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