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Edward Comstock Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer Literature

Degrees
Ph.D., Education, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ
MA, Literature, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ
BS, Sociology & English, James Madison University

Bio
Edward Comstock holds a PhD from Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ's School of Education, Teaching, and Health, as well as an MA in Literature. At the intersection of rhetoric, writing studies, educational psychology, and post structuralist philosophy, his scholarship focuses on writing pedagogy and theory. His most recent book (published by Routledge May 2018), Connections Between Neuroscience, Rhetoric, and Writing: A Plastic Pedagogy for the Digital Age, argues that plasticity in contemporary neuroscience compliments, extends, and challenges recent and influential posthuman and new materialist accounts of the relations between rhetoric, affect, and writing pedagogy. He began teaching classes at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ in fall 2006.
See Also
Writing Studies Program
For the Media
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Teaching

Fall 2024

  • CORE-105 Complex Problems Seminar: Plasticity: Shaping the Brain

  • WRT-106 College Writing, Intensive

  • WRT-106 College Writing, Intensive

Spring 2025

  • WRT-101 College Writing Seminar

  • WRT-101 College Writing Seminar

  • WRT-201 The Art of Persuasion: The Rhetoric of Travel