Dr. Ryan D. Shirey
Teaching Professor
Director, WFU Writing Center
Contact
Office: 426B ZSR Library
Phone: (336) 758-5378
Email: shireyrd@wfu.edu
Degrees
PhD Washington University in St. Louis
AM Washington University in St. Louis
BA Albion College
Selected Areas of Interest
- Writing Studies and Writing Center Pedagogies
- Rhetoric and Ethics
- Critical Reading and Civic Literacies
- L2 Writing Pedagogy
- Scottish Literature
Selected Courses Taught at Wake Forest
- EDU 785: The Teaching of Writing
- WRI 341: Writing Center Pedagogy
- WRI 212: The Art of the Essay
- WRI 210: Academic Research and Writing: About Time
- WRI 111 Just Words: Writing, Rhetoric, and Ethics
- HON 365/ENG 302: Literature, Song, and Folklore in Scotland, Ireland, and Appalachia
Publications
- “Gibbon, Shelley, and Romantic Revolutionary Renewal.” Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Ed. Scott Lyall. International Companions to Scottish Literature. Eds. Ian Brown and Thomas Clancy. (Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2015)
- “Living Speech, Dying Tongues, and Reborn Language: John Buchan and Scots Vernacular Poetry.” John Buchan and the Idea of Modernity. Eds. Kate MacDonald and Nathan Waddell. (Pickering & Chatto, 2013)
- “Neil Gunn, Nationalism, and ‘The World Republic of Letters.’” International Journal of Scottish Literature. 1.3 (Fall/Winter 2007)
- “The Spiritual Archive Beneath the Poetic Artifice: A ‘Double Vision’ of James Merrill’s Poetry” (co-authored with Matthew McClelland). James Merrill: Other Writings, an Exhibition from the Special Collections of Washington University [curator’s guide to exhibition of archival materials]. Washington University Libraries, St. Louis, Spring 2001.