- Brian Becker
- Associate Teaching Professor
- Email:
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- Office:
43 Mine St, Room 201
College Avenue Campus
- About:
- Brian has been teaching with the Writing Program since 2016.
- He finished his PhD at Rutgers in 2015. He has also worked with educational publishers since 2005, helping to write, edit, and design test-prep and other materials.
- His work at Rutgers is relatively diverse--he writes and assesses the placement test for incoming students (approximately 6,000-7,000 students per year), and he directs the Writing Program Institute. From 2018-2023, he was the Coordinator of Basic Composition (355:100), in which role he created a free, open-source textbook.
- Education:
- Ph.D. - Literatures in English, Rutgers
- Dissertation - “Folk Moderns and Modern Folks: Media, Modernity, and the Migration of Real Americans”
- M.A. - Humanities, The University of Chicago
- Thesis: "Folk-Modernism: Intersection and Overlap in Sherwood Anderson and Jean Toomer"
- B.A. - English, The George Washington University
- Courses Taught:
- Composition:
- College Writing (101), College Writing Extended (104), Expository Writing (101), Basic Composition with Reading (100R), Composition Skills (098), English as Academic Discourse I (155), English as Academic Discourse II (156), Research in the Disciplines (201), Graduate Writing
- Literature:
- Principles of Literary Study: Prose, Twentieth-Century American Literature, Black Narrative, Harlem Renaissance, Introduction to American Literature I and II
- Publications:
- "Radio's Disappearing Act: The Modern Folks," Raritan Quarterly, Fall 2018
