William Banks serves as Co-Director of the Tar River Writing Project, Associate Director of the Composition Program, Director of the First-Year Writing Studio, and Area Coordinator for the Rhetoric & Composition faculty.  He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Rhetoric and Composition, children’s literature, and women’s studies.

He is currently working on two scholarly books: Queer Literacies explores the rhetorical and discursive work of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender identities as a series of literate practices; Rhetorical Methodologies is a co-authored text which aims to update discussions of methods and methodologies in the discipline Rhetoric and Composition. Recent chapters have appeared in the following books: The Writing Program Interrupted (2009), Transforming English Studies (2009), Digital Writing Research (2007), and Local Histories (2007).  His co-edited special issue of Computers and Composition ("Sexualities, Technologies, and the Teaching of Writing") won the 2005 Ellen Nold Award for distinguished contribution to the field of Computers and Writing; other articles have appeared in College English, Dialogue: A Journal for Writing Specialists, Illinois English Journal, and Teaching English in the Two-Year College. In his spare time, Will is working on his young adult novel Darkness Like a Dream and a children's picture book about his delightfully irrepressible dog Max.

Degrees
B.A. Georgia Southern University
M.A. Georgia Southern University
Ph.D. Illinois State University

Primary Areas of Research/Teaching
Theories of Rhetoric and Composition
Teaching of Writing
Histories of Rhetoric
Minority Rhetorics
English Education
Computers and Composition
National Writing Project
Children's and Adolescent Literatures

Courses Taught
8630: Advanced Cultural Rhetorics & Writing
8601: Advanced Research Methods in Rhetoric & Composition
7666: Teaching English in the Two-Year College
7630: Cultural Rhetorics & Writing
7601: Research Design in Rhetoric & Composition
6625: Teaching Composition, Theory and Practice
5000: Women's Studies Seminar: Gay and Lesbian Drama
4950: Literature for Children
4540: Special Topics Seminar
3890: Critical Writing
3810: Advanced Composition
2730: Functional Grammar
1200: Composition
1100: Composition


Website Links
Personal Website
Graduate Concentration in Rhetoric & Composition
First-Year Writing Studio
Tar River Writing Project