English Studies: An Introduction to the Discipline(s)

Bruce McComiskey is associate professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Throughout his career, McComiskey has taught courses in rhetoric and composition, literature, discourse analysis, critical theory, and English education, and he currently directs the Red Mountain Writing Project. McComiskey's most recent publications include Teaching Composition as a Social Process (2000), Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric (2002), and City Comp: Identities, Spaces, Practices (2003), a coedited collection on teaching writing in urban spaces. In addition to his academic writing, McComiskey has also published a number of poems in literary anthologies and magazines.