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DENISE TROUTMAN
Associate Professor
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
517/432-2576 (office); 517/353-5250 (fax)
teaching and research interests: developmental and first-year writing, language and society, discourse analysis, women and language, African American women’s discourse patterns, African American English
courses: WRA 125 Writing: American Ethnic & Racial Experience; LIN 225: Women and Language; LIN 891: Special Topics (African American Speech Community)
Troutman has a PhD in Linguistics from Michigan State University and has a joint appointment with Linguistics. She is winner of the 2001-2002 Fulbright Award. Her teaching and research interests include developmental and first-year writing, language and society, discourse analysis, women and language, African American women’s discourse patterns, and African American English.
Troutman has published in a variety of collections and journals, including Centering Ourselves: African American Feminist and Womanist Studies in Discourse (2001, Hampton Press), Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American English (2001, John Benjamins), The Workings of Language: From Prescriptions to Perspectives (1999, Praeger), the Middle Atlantic Writers Association, the Journal of Negro Education, and more. Recently, Troutman has presented papers at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Ways of Analyzing Variation in English, the International Pragmatics Conference, and the National Council of Teachers of English.
Troutman has taught ATL 125: Writing American Ethnic & Racial Experience; LIN 225: Women and Language; LIN 891: Special Topics (African American Speech Community) as well as other courses.
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