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Lee Bauknight, Teaching Assistant Professor of English at Lehigh University

Lee Bauknight

Teaching Assistant Professor

lmb314@lehigh.edu
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Education:

MFA in Creative Writing, University of South Carolina, 2002

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Additional Interests

  • Writing studies
  • The teaching of information literacy in writing classes
  • Writing program administration
  • The preparation and support of new teachers of composition

Biography

Lee Bauknight is a Teaching Assistant Professor in Lehigh University’s English Department and a First-Year Advisor in the College of Arts and Sciences. Before joining the Lehigh faculty in 2021, Professor Bauknight taught composition, professional writing, technical writing, creative writing, and journalism at West Chester University, Penn State Berks, Louisiana State University, and the University of South Carolina. His research interests include composition studies, the preparation and support of new teachers of English, writing program administration and the teaching of information literacy in writing classes, and he has delivered papers on these and other topics at the Conference on College Composition and Communication and the Modern Language Association. Professor Bauknight’s publications include three co-authored textbooks, Present Tense: Contemporary Themes for Writers (Cengage), Food (Fountainhead), and Green (Fountainhead), and the short story “Semper Fi” (Yemassee). He has also served as a series editor and a consulting editor for Fountainhead Press. Before completing a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (Fiction) at the University of South Carolina, Professor Bauknight worked in journalism, as a newspaper editor, for more than a decade.

Textbooks

Food. Written and edited with Brooke Rollins. Fountainhead Press, 2010. 

Green. Written and edited with Brooke Rollins. Fountainhead Press, 2010. 

Present Tense: Contemporary Themes for Writers. Written and edited with Brooke Rollins. Cengage, 2009. 
 

Creative Writing

“Semper Fi.” Yemassee 12:1 (2004): 45-64.
 

Conference Presentations

“Hope Is Not Enough: Arendtian Natality and Pedagogical Action.” The Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, February 2023.

“Teaching Writing in the Fake News Era.” The Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Chicago, January 2019.

“‘Fake News’ is Fake News: Teaching the Roots of Mis-, Dis-, and False Information.” The Conference on College Composition and Communication’s Teacher to Teacher Forum, Kansas City, March 2018. 

“Pedagogical Professionalization and the Risk of the Status Quo.” The Conference on College Composition and Communication, Tampa, March 2015.

“A Grand Opening: Public and Private Transcripts in TA Preparation Programs.” The Conference on College Composition and Communication, Indianapolis, March 2014.

“Re-identifying Students and Teachers via the Sophistic Fragments.” The Rhetoric Society of America, Philadelphia, May 2012.

“Arendtian Authority and TA Education.” The Conference on College Composition and Communication, St. Louis, March 2012. 

“A Textbook Example: How One First-Year English Program Adopted an Entrepreneurial Identity and Lived to Tell the Tale.” The Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York City, March 2007.

“How to Ensure that Writing Skills Make the Trip Across the Curriculum.” The Louisiana Association for College Composition, New Orleans, November 2007.

Teaching

Courses Taught at Lehigh

WRT 001: Academic and Analytical Writing

WRT 002: Research and Argument

WRT 011: Advanced Writing: The Rhetorical Self

ENGL 143: Introduction to Writing Creative Nonfiction

ENGL 144: Introduction to Writing Fiction
 

Other Teaching Interests

Professional Writing & Communication

Technical Writing & Communication