Dr. Bruce Kovanen
Dr. Bruce Kovanen
Assistant Professor of English and Director of Upper Division Writing
PhD English, Concentration in Writing Studies (University of Illinois, 2023)
Office: Minard 318E44
About Dr. Bruce Kovanen
Bruce Kovanen is an Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Upper Division Writing Program at North Dakota State University. He received his BA in Psychology from Knox College, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with Honors in Composition & Rhetoric. He received his MA in English and PhD in English with a Concentration in Writing Studies and Certificates in Labor Studies and Labor & Employment Law from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Prior to arriving at NDSU, he completed a postdoctoral research associate position with the Writing Across Engineering and Science team in the Department of Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
His current research project examines the literate activities of a graduate worker union’s bargaining team as they engage in contract negotiations with university administrators.
He currently serves as the Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication’s Labor Caucus and is editor-in-chief of Academic Labor: Research and Artistry.
Research/Teaching
Literate Activity; Situated, Historical, Embodied Semiosis; Labor Studies; Sociocultural Perspectives on Learning; Cultural-Historical Activity Theory; Writing Across the Curriculum; Transdisciplinary Action Research; Ethnographic and Video Methods; Workplace Communication; STEM Communication
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