Liane Robertson
Director of First Year Composition,
Associate Professor
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Office: CPR 358-M
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Liane Robertson is an Associate Professor and Director of First-Year Composition at the 最新天美传媒. She is co-author of the award-winning Writing Across Contexts: Transfer, Composition, and Sites of Writing and has published articles on knowledge transfer, reflection, and writing pedagogy in College Composition and Communication, The WAC Journal, and other journals and edited collections in Writing Studies. She earned a PhD from Florida State University, where she and a research partner developed the Teaching for Transfer (TFT) curricular design for writing instruction which has been adopted by writing programs at institutions both nationally and internationally. Her current research is focused on knowledge transfer and AI literacy, transfer between school and workplace writing, and the role of transfer in student engagement and assessment.
In addition to directing the FYC program, Robertson teaches graduate courses in the teaching of writing, composition theory, research methods, and special topics such as her recent course in writing pedagogy in the age of intelligence. The recipient of numerous research grants for her work in knowledge transfer, she has been awarded the Research Impact Award from the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) and the Best Book Award from the Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA). Along with her frequent collaborators, her work on prior knowledge and its role in transfer in Composition Forum earned a best article award. She has been an invited keynote speaker, workshop facilitator, and consultant at institutions across the U.S. and internationally for her work in knowledge transfer, reflection, and curricular design and for her experience in faculty development and Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) program facilitation.