Stephanie White hired to new CTE position

Dr. Stephanie White will be joining the Centre for Teaching Excellence as an Instructional Developer, TA Training and Writing Support on February 16, 2016. Previously, Stephanie taught communication courses for math and computer science students as a Lecturer in Waterloo’s Department of English. Stephanie received her PhD in Composition and Rhetoric from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she also received the Eccles Mid-Career Award for Excellence in Teaching. Her research interests are in writing pedagogy, Writing Across the Curriculum and Writing in the Disciplines, community-engaged writing​, and multimodal communication. At CTE, Stephanie will be involved in the delivery of teaching development programs for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. She will also support discipline-based writing initiatives at the course, department, and faculty levels. Stephanie is available for consultations with individual instructors on various aspects of student writing, including integrating writing with disciplinary teaching, designing assignments and rubrics, encouraging and monitoring peer review, developing grading guidelines, and working with multilingual writers. She can be reached at stephanie.white@uwaterloo.ca