Profile for Shannon McClellan Brooks

Shannon McClellan Brooks Pronouns: She/her/hers

Assistant Professor

English

Specialty area(s)

Rhetoric and writing studies; sociolinguistics; first-year writing; translingualism; language socialization; writing technologies and writing with technology; writing pedagogy; professional writing; auto/ethnographic, embodied/multisensory, and archival research methods

Current courses at UWL

Fall 2026
ENG 110: College Writing II
ENG 433: Introduction to Teaching Writing

Education

Ph.D. in English, The Pennsylvania State University (2025)
Dissertation: "Bodies, Writing, and Interactional Spaces: Toward Multisensorial Translingual Praxis for Writing Support"

M.A. in English, The Pennsylvania State University (2020)
Thesis: "Rhetorical Underpinnings of Cross-Border Pedagogical Approaches to Undergraduate Writing"

B.A. in English and Spanish, McDaniel College (2016)
Thesis: "Why did she tell me that?: Conceptualizing Multilingual Writers' Autobiographical Performances in the Writing Center"

Career

Teaching history

Undergraduate:
ENG 100/110 College Writing I/II
ENG 307 Workplace Writing
Sports, Ethics, & Literature

Graduate:
Language Socialization Across Home, School, and Community Contexts
Course In College Teaching
Supervised Experience in Teaching College English

Research and publishing

Articles:
"Centerless? Making Sense of Disruptions in the Graduate Writing Center." Writing Center Journal, vol. 42, no. 1, 2024, http://doi.org/10.7771/2832-9414.2053

"Inspo: Writing Stories with a Flock of AIs and Humans." arXiv, November 2023. http://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2311.16521

Kudos

presented

Shannon McClellan Brooks, English, presented "Reimagining Translingual Research Methodologies with Rhetoric, Disability Studies, and Sport Sociology" at the American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference on March 23 in Chicago, IL.

Submitted on: Mar. 26