Collie Fulford
Education
Ph.D., 2009, University of Massachusetts – Amherst
M.A., 2005, University of Massachusetts – Amherst
B.A., 2002, Keene State College
Collie Fulford is the President-Elect for CarolinasWPA. She is an Assistant Professor of English composition and rhetoric in the Department of Language and Literature at North Carolina Central University where she directs First-Year Writing and chairs the writing concentration committee.
Collie is interested in increasing minority engagement in CarolinasWPA and diversifying the institutions that are involved in the organization. She feels that writing programs operate in highly complex organizations and are thus often sites of crisis and conflict. Collie believes this situational reality also means, however, that they can be sites of great creativity and collaboration.
“CarolinasWPA provides occasions for members to broach the most challenging aspects of teaching and program administration while tapping into our collective creativity, humor, and wisdom,” says Collie.
Her current research addresses minority education and writing program development. She also studies the rhetoric of higher education. Her recent articles in IJSoTL, WPA, and Composition Studies pertain to writing program administration issues.