English
Faculty
Maria Rankin-Brown, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Office: Stauffer Hall
Phone: (707) 965-6613
Education:
B.S., Pacific Union College, 1995
M.A., University of Northern Colorado, 1997
Ph.D., Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2005
Biography:
Maria Rankin-Brown, Ph.D., specializes in composition studies, rhetoric, linguistics, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, and multicultural studies. She has taught English Composition, Communication, Non-western world literature, and English as a Second/Other Language at the college and university level in California, Utah, Tennessee, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Colorado. She received Herber Grant awards in 2007 and 2008 for ongoing study of Japanese literature and literary behaviors. In Summer 2008, she also taught a one-week course in creative writing for PUC's PacificQuest Program. Maria has made recent academic presentations to the Conference on College Composition and Communication; California TESOL Convention; the California Association for Teachers of English convention; the National Council of Teachers of English; and the regional and national Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conferences.
Maria Rankin-Brown, Ph.D., specializes in composition studies, rhetoric, linguistics, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, and multicultural studies. She has taught English Composition, Communication, Non-western world literature, and English as a Second/Other Language at the college and university level in California, Utah, Tennessee, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Colorado. She received Herber Grant awards in 2007 and 2008 for ongoing study of Japanese literature and literary behaviors. In Summer 2008, she also taught a one-week course in creative writing for PUC's PacificQuest Program. Maria has made recent academic presentations to the Conference on College Composition and Communication; California TESOL Convention; the California Association for Teachers of English convention; the National Council of Teachers of English; and the regional and national Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conferences.