Diana Ashe

Title: Assistant Professor
Office: Morton Hall 150
Phone: (910) 962-3332
e-mail:ashed@uncwil.edu

• Ph.D., Texas A&M University
• M.A., Texas A&M University
• Certificate, Rice University Publishing Program
• B.A., Southwestern University

Teaching and Research Interests

Technical and business writing and publishing, classical and modern rhetorical theory, writing programs administration, assessment, first-year and advanced composition, critical theory, environmental writing, literary non-fiction, etc.

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Publications and Conference Presentations:

• "The Space between Text and Action: Redefining Nature Writing through the Work of Rick Bass and John McPhee." In a collection of essays on Rick Bass. Alan Weltzien, ed. University of Utah Press, forthcoming.
• Instructor's Manual with Tests and Transparency Masters for Information in Action: A Guide to Technical Communication (with M. Jimmie Killingsworth).  New York: Allyn & Bacon, 1996.
• "Natural Virtue, Virtual Nature: Competing Representations in Texas' Nuclear Waste Controversy." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, Georgia, 1999.
• "Post-Mortem for the Postmodern: Time, Space, and Expressionism in The Hudsucker Proxy." Twenty-Second Annual Colloquium on Literature and Film, West Virginia University, 1997.
• "Strategies for Holistic Assessment: Honing Graduate Student Raters." Conference on Composition and Communication, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1996.
• "My Sister's a Dyke and Greg is Queer: An Interchange on Compulsory Heterosexuality (with Greg Tubach). Tenth Annual Comparative Literature Symposium, University of Tulsa, 1995.
• "My Brother was a Chicano: Baudrillard and Negotiated Identity." Conference on Language and Literature, Texas A&M University, 1995.