Rebecca Babcock

Rebecca Babcock

William and Ordelle Watts Professor
Department of Literature and Language
English Program
College of Arts and Sciences
Office
MB 4138

English Program

Department of Literature and Language

Education: BA, MA, University of Massachusetts at Boston; PhD (2005), Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Awards: Recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant (2017); President's Research Award (2013); IWCA Outstanding Scholarship Award, Best Article (2012)

Publications and positionsResearching the Writing Center, with Terese Thonus (Peter Lang, 2nd edition, 2018); A Synthesis of Qualitative Studies of Writing Center Tutoring, 1983-2006, with Kellye Manning, Travis Rogers, Amanda McCain and Courtney Goff (Peter Lang, 2012); Tell Me How it Reads: Tutoring Deaf and Hearing Students in the Writing Center (Gallaudet, 2012); Writing Centers and Disability, with Sharifa Daniels (Fountainhead Press, 2017). Director of Writing and Chair of Research for the Global Listening Centre.

Research Interests: metaresearch, writing centers, disability studies, folklinguistics