Dr. Heidi Estrem came to Boise State University in 2006. She has a Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric from the University of Nevada, Reno. Her dissertation was “A Study of Two Cultures and the Travelers Who Must Negotiate Them: High School Senior English and College First-Year English Classes”, and her research interests continue to include the study of writers in transition. She is also interested in TA education and mentoring, composition pedagogy, instructors' pedagogical development, and other aspects of writing program administration. She has published (collaboratively and singly) in WPA, Rhetoric Review, English Journal, and in edited collections.
Dr. Estrem is also the Director of the First-Year Writing Program at Boise State. She leads faculty development workshops, develops curriculum for the first-year writing program, teaches first-year writing classes and the graduate seminar for new teaching assistants, and coordinates the assessment of the first-year writing program.