Professor, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ

Ph.D, in Humanities/Composition and Cultural Rhetoric, Syracuse University, August 1997, Dissertation: A Different Politics of Difference: Exploring Alternatives in Teaching Basic Writers.

Scholarly interests: history of rhetoric, rhetorical and composition theory, cultural studies, gender studies, basic writing.

Dr. Laura Gray-Rosendale, Professor of English at Northern Arizona University and President's Distinguished Teaching Fellow, specializes in rhetoric and composition, visual literacies, discourses of autobiography, and cultural studies. For twenty five years she was the Director of the S.T.A.R. (Successful Transition and Academic Retention) English Program at NAU. In addition, she served as Chair of The NAU President’s Commission on the Status of Women and won the President's Award (2019). She also won the NAU Award in Excellence in Online Education (2021). Gray-Rosendale has published various articles and book chapters. She has authored/edited books such as Rethinking Basic Writing, Alternative Rhetorics (with Sibylle Gruber), Fractured Feminisms (with Gil Harootunian), Radical Relevance (with Steven Rosendale), and Pop Perspectives. Her book College Girl: A Memoir came out with Excelsior in 2013/2014. It won the Gold Medal IPPY in memoir and was a runner-up for several other prizes. Gray-Rosendale's 2018 book titled Getting Personal: Teaching Personal Writing in the Digital Age won the Silver Medal IPPY in theory and education. From 2018-2020 she was the guest editor on two special volumes of the Journal of Basic Writing on graduate education. She published Me Too, Feminist Theory, and Surviving Sexual Violence in the Academy with Lexington Press (2020). Her book Writers' Stories in Motion: Healing, Joy, and Triumph came out with Peter Lang (2021). Her book Go Online! Reconfiguring Writing Courses for the New, Virtual World (with Steven Rosendale) came out in 2022. Gray-Rosendale is about to complete a new book, Basic Writing in the 21st Century, with Barbara Gleason. It is designed to be a key reference guide for the field. Published by Peter Lang's Rhetoric & Composition Series (overseen by Alice Horning), it is slated to come out in 2024/2025. Gray-Rosendale continues her research on issues of sexual violence-- with both a national and global focus. Her work in this area appears in various scholarly as well as other contexts.

Dissertation Title: A Different Politics of Difference: Exploring Alternatives in Teaching Basic Writers