Edward Comstock Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer Literature

Degrees: Ph.D., Education, American University
MA, Literature, American University
BS, Sociology & English, James Madison University
Bio: Edward Comstock holds a PhD from American University'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 American University in fall 2006.

See Also: Writing Studies Program; Personal Website
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