At The University of Texas at El Paso, Beth Brunk-Chavez is an Associate Dean in the College of Liberal Arts, the Director of First-Year Composition, and an Associate Professor in the Rhetoric and Writing Studies Program. Her research is currently focused on the areas of teaching with technology, writing and technology, writing program administration, and composition pedagogy. She teaches a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses in writing and rhetoric and won a 2009 UT System Regents' Oustanding Teaching Award.
Research Overview
Articles
Using Multimedia to Engage Faculty in Development Opportunities: A Project for Incorporating Reading Comprehension Across Disciplines (with Sunay Palsole, Vinayak Melarkod, and Steve Varela) (2010)
Current research at all levels of schooling emphasizes the importance of effective reading comprehension as...
Predicting Success: Increasing Retention and Pass Rates in College Composition (with Elaine Fredricksen) (2008)
Decentered, Disconnected, and Digitized: The Importance of Shared Space (with Shawn Miller), Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy (2007)
This study examines perceptions and implementations of collaboration in digitized learning environments. Critically engaging the...
What's So Funny About Stephen Toulmin? Using Political Cartoons to Teach the Toulmin Analysis of Argument, Teaching English at the Two-Year College (2004)
Structural Inhabitants in the Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Remedios Varo, Studies in American Culture (2003)
Book Chapters
The Hybrid Academy: Building and Sustaining a Technological Culture of Use (with Shawn Miller), Technological Ecologies and Sustainability: Methods, Modes, and Assessment (2009)
Technological Ecologies and Sustainability: Methods, Modes, and Assessment with be published by Computers and Composition...
Book Reviews
Arts of Living: Reinventing the Humanities for the Twenty-first Century, by Kurt Spellmeyer., Composition Studies (2005)
Grants
Professional Development Modules Project: Reading Comprehension (2008)
The purpose of this $245,389 grant from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board is to...