Meridith Leo-Rowett was born and raised on Long Island and
received her BA and MA in English from SUNY Stony Brook University.
She continued to teach at several colleges and universities on Long
Island before pursuing the DA at St. John’s University in the fall
of 2007. Some of her primary research interests are Writing Across
the Curriculum, Writing Assessment, composition theory,
multi-writing, multiple literacies, technology in the classroom,
and writing center pedagogy and administration. Recently her focus
has been on collaborative projects and an investigation into
assessment across the discipline. She hopes to reshape her
classroom practices by exploring assessment and writing that
students engage in throughout their academic careers. Her goals as
an academic are to continually create a classroom atmosphere that
is inviting, critically engaging and socially awakening.
Presentations
"Renegotiating Technology into the Classroom: Re-Writing,
Re-thinking and Revising the Writing Process in an Electronic
Classroom." St. John's University, Queens, NY, April 2008.
"The Rise of Technology in the Classroom: Regulating, (Re)
orientating, and Engaging with Intimate Dialogues via Online
communication." SUNY Council on Writing, Stony Brook, NY, April
2008.
"A Tale of Two Compositionists: Doctoral Discourses in Digital
Form." North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, October
2008.
"Fake It Till You Make It: Performativity, Authenticity and the
Identity Crisis of the Teaching Student." University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, February 2009.
"Decentering the Center: Taking Writing Center Pedagogy into the
Community." University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT, April
2009.