Suellynn Duffey

Suellynn Duffey teaches undergraduate writing courses as well as graduate courses in writing theory and pedagogy, women and literacy, writing and place, and related topics.  She administers the first- and junior-level writing programs at UMSL and has held similar administrative positions at the Ohio State University, Ohio University, the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, and Georgia Southern University.

She is currently working on a book focused on literacy in the heartland.  She has also published numerous articles on writing program administration, some of them written collaboratively. She has presided over national conferences and organizations (such as the Conference on Basic Writing), worked on large-scale writing assessment projects, and received several grants to fund research on and/or development of writing across the curriculum, de-tracking first-year writing students, and classroom technology.