Dr. Zen Dochterman is a Lecturer in the Writing Program. His dissertation focused on Central American and Chicanx poetry, while his current research interests include world cinema & the anti-work ethos, composition pedagogy, globalization theory, and '90s pop culture. He is also completing a book of short stories.
Dr. Vanessa Osborne is an Assistant Professor (Teaching) with the Writing Program and the Writing Faculty member for USC's Spatial Sciences Institute. Her academic interests include (but are not limited to) consumerism, gender, American literature, and popular culture. She has published on mannequins and shopping practices, Theodore Dreiser's
Sister Carrie, Brokeback Mountain, Phineas and Ferb (forthcoming) and Meridel Le Sueur's
The Girl. As a regular panel facilitator and judge for the Undergraduate Writing Conference, she's excited to participate in this similar celebration of student accomplishment in an online space.
Dr. Corinna Schroeder is a Lecturer in the Writing Program. She is the author of a book of poems,
Inked, which won the X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize and was published by Texas Review Press in 2015. Her research interests include composition pedagogy, digital literacy, modern and contemporary poetry, and the novel.
Samuel Teets is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English. His research focuses on comparative, twenty-first century American ethnic literatures in conversation with performance studies, gender studies, and LGBTQ studies. Teaching as an Assistant Lecturer through the Writing Program this semester has been one of his greatest joys as we continue to shelter-in-place "together apart." And coffee. Lots of coffee.
