Education
PhD, Rhetoric, Composition & Literacy Studies, University of Louisville
M.A., English Language & Literature, University of Alabama
B.A., English & Sociology, Emory University
Research Interests
Literacy practices in popular culture, teacher and tutor education, writing program administration and assessment, transfer of learning.
Teaching & Administrative Experience
Professor, Department of English, UNC Charlotte, 2023-present
Professor, Chair, Writing, Rhetoric, & Digital Studies Department, 2020-2023
Professor, University Writing Center Director, University of Central Florida, 2018-20
Associate Professor, Associate Chair & Writing Center Director, University of Central Florida, 2016-18
Associate Professor, University Writing Center Director, University of Central Florida, 2011-18
Assistant Professor, Writing Resources Center Director, UNC Charlotte, 2008-11
Associate Professor, University Writing Center Director, California State University, Chico, 2006-08
Assistant Professor, University Writing Center Director, California State University, Chico, 2001-06
Selected Publications
Book
Hall, R. M. (2017). Around the texts of writing center work: An inquiry-based approach to tutor education. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press. Winner of the 2018 International Writing Centers Association (IWCA) Outstanding Book Award.
Articles & Book Chapters
Bleakney, J., Hall, R.M., Hixon-Bowles, K., Lee, S., Singh-Corcoran, N. (2023). Timely, relevant, practical: A study of writing center summer institute alumni perceptions of value and benefits. Writing Center Journal 41 (3), 20-37.
Hall, R. M. Activity theory. (2020). In J. Mackiewicz, & R.D. Babcock & (Eds.), Theories and methods of writing center studies: A practical guide (pp. 79-93). New York, NY: Routledge.
Hall, R.M. (2019). Analyze a published research study: An assignment to scaffold reading challenging academic texts. Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments, 3(1), 34-44.
Hall, R.M., Romo, M., & Wardle, E. (2018, Spring). Teaching and learning threshold concepts in a writing major: Liminality, dispositions, and program design. Composition Forum: A Journal of Pedagogical Theory in Rhetoric and Composition, 38.
Hall, R. M. (2017). Some things we know about the teaching & learning of writing from 50 years of research. In S. Carter, D. Dunbar-Odom, T.J. Adkins, & J. Pauszek (Eds.), Writing Inquiry (pp. 20-22). Southlake, TX: Fountainhead Press.
Hall, R. M. (2013). Problems of practice: An inquiry stance toward writing center work. WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, 37(5-6), 1-7.
Hall, R. M. (2011). Using dialogic reflection to develop a writing center community of practice. Writing Center Journal, 31(1), 82-105.
Hall, R. M. (2010). A social capital view of a writing center WAC partnership. Praxis: A Writing Center Journal, 7(2).
Hall, M. (2009). The politics of peer response. The Writing Instructor.
Hall, R. M. (2008). Oprah’s book selections: Teleliterature for the Oprah Winfrey show. In C. K. Farr & J. Harker (Eds.), The Oprah affect: Critical essays on Oprah’s book club (pp. 89-118). New York, NY: SUNY Press.
Hall, R. M., & Wolf, T. (2004). One writing center’s first steps onto the web. WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, 28(3), 1-6.
Hall, R. M., & Rosner, M. I. (2004). Pratt and pratfalls: Revisioning “contact zones.” In A. Lunsford & L. Ouzgane (Eds.), Crossing borderlands: Composition and postcolonial studies (pp. 95-105). Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Hall, R. M. (2003). The “Oprahfication” of literacy: Reading “Oprah’s book club.” College English, 65(6), 646-667.
Hall, R. M. (2001). Serving the second sun: The men in Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day. In S. A. Stave. (Ed.), Gloria Naylor: Strategy and technique, myth and magic (pp. 77-96). Newark, NJ: University of Delaware Press.
Hall, R. M. (2000). A Victorian sensation novel in the “contact zone”: Reading Lady Audley’s Secret through Imperial Eyes. The Victorian Newsletter, (98)1, 22-26.
Selected Creative Nonfiction
Hall, M. (2022, Fall). Oxcart to nowhere. Welter Literary Journal.
Hall, M. (2021, December). Quarter turn. Peauxdunque Review, 6.
Hall, M. (2021, Summer). Dream house. The Fourth River: A Journal of Nature and Place-Based Writing, 11.
Hall, M. (2020, September/October). Necrokedeia for children. Hippocampus Magazine.
Hall, M. (2020). A Trailways education. Sand Hills Literary Magazine, 44, 27-34.
Hall, M. (2020). Talismans against our next meeting. Passengers Journal, 1(2).
Hall, M. (2019, Winter/Spring). Sex matters. Lunch Ticket, 14.
Hall, M. (2018, Summer/Fall). Finding Mac. Timberline Review, 7, 46-52.
Hall, M. (2017, Summer/Fall). Coming up short. Timberline Review, 5, 119-124.
Hall, R. M. (2007, Fall). Scouting for accessories. JMWW: A Quarterly Journal of Writing.
Hall, R. (2006-07, Winter). California haute cuisine. Flashquake, 6(2).
Short Fiction
Hall, M. (2021, September). My boy. The Dillydoun Review.
Courses Taught
- Creative Nonfiction
- Studies in Literacy
- Advanced Expository Writing
- Research, Theory & Practice of Tutoring Writing
- Writing Senior Research Capstone
- Writing Research Methods
- Current Theories & Applications of Writing
- Writing About Literature
- Writing & Inquiry in Academic Contexts
- Writing & Inquiry in Academic Contexts with Studio