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Deborah Burns
Deborah Burns
Associate Professor of Writing, Chair
Communication Arts & Sciences
Ph.D. University of Rhode Island
Deborah H. Burns (associate professor, Ph.D. University of Rhode Island) specializes in rhetoric and composition. Dr. Burns was the first faculty member at Merrimack College to teach online classes, and in many of her classes students engage in both face-to-face and online discussions. She is the director of the Writing Center and has served as the president of the Faculty Senate. Dr. Burns has published in Writing Center Journal and in collections published by Boynton/Cook and SUNY Press. She has recently co-authored a chapter (with Kathryn Nielsen-Dube) in the 4th edition of Irene Clark’s Writing in the Center. Dr. Burns is currently researching early female rhetoricians, particularly those who engaged in religious writing in 19th and early 20th century America.
Courses:
- Introduction to College Writing
- Introduction to Composition Studies
- Classical Rhetoric
- Public and Private Writing from the Civil War Era
- Families, Death and Violence in Short Fiction
- Feminist Rhetorics