Dr. Clyde Moneyhun came to the university in 2010 as an Assistant Professor in the English Department to direct the Boise State Writing Center. Since arriving, he has also taken on the title of Director of Writing Across the Curriculum and is charged with helping departments create and teach writing-intensive courses. He has lived and taught in a variety of locations, including France and Japan, and his education includes degrees in Comparative Literature, American Literature, and Fiction Writing, and culminated with a Ph.D. in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English from the University of Arizona. Before coming to Boise State, he was the Director of the Hume Writing Center at Stanford University. Dr. Moneyhun has been a prolific writer and a presenter on the national level, and has held professional offices with the Council of Writing Program Administrators (WPA) and the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Recent projects including teaching Hemingway's nonfiction and translating the contemporary Catalan poet, Ponç Pons.
Articles
Response to Doug Hesse's "The Place of Creative Writing in Composition Studies", College Composition and Communication (2012)
Many thanks to Doug Hesse for “The Place of Creative Writing in Composition Studies” (CCC...
Performance Evaluation as Faculty Development, WPA: Writing Program Administration (2010)
The article discusses the importance of performance evaluation in faculty development. It cites possible outcomes...
"Believing, Doubting, Deciding, Acting", Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning (2010)
Response to the WPA Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition, WPA: Writing Program Administration (1999)
Contributions to Books
Literary Texts as Primers in Meaning-Making, Integrating Literature and Writing Instruction in First-Year English (2008)
"Less Is More in Response to Student Writing", Strategies for Teaching First-Year Composition (2002)
"'Not Just Plain English': Teaching Critical Reading with I, Rigoberta Menchu", Teaching and Testimony: Rigoberta Menchu in the North American Classroom (1996)
Translations
"Obituary" and "Palinurus," by Ponç Pons, translated from Catalan (2013)
Translations of "Obituary" and "Palinurus" by the contemporary Catalan poet Ponç Pons. "lyrikline.org is the...
Seven Poems by Ponç Pons (translated from Catalan), Notre Dame Reveiw Online (2012)
Seven poems by the contemporary Catalan poet Ponç Pons.
Books
Living Languages: Contexts for Reading and Writing (with Nancy Buffington and Marvin Diogenes) (1996)
A Heart of Winter (with Mark Caprio) (1991)
Translation of Yuki-no Arubamu by contemporary Japanese novelist Miura Ayako
Presentations
Hemingway's Politics in His Journalism and Fiction, a Continuum of Contradiction (with Clay Morgan, Jacky O'Conner, and Mitch Wieland), 4th Annual Ernest Hemingway Symposium (2012)
Introduction by Clay Morgan. A conversation with distinguished Hemingway experts, authors, and faculty members of...
Translating Living Writers (with Christopher Burawa and Cynthia Hogue), 35th Annual Conference of the American Literary Translators Association (2012)
‘L’èxstasi diví’: Ramon Llull and the Mystic Beauty of the Word, Annual Meeting of the Rhetoric Society of America (2012)
"Theater Games for the Composition Classroom", Conference on College Composition and Communication (2011)