Robert Mundy
Department Chairperson
Biography
Faculty Bio
Dr. Robert Mundy is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, Writing, and Cultural Studies, where he serves as Chair and Director of Composition. His teaching and research focus on theories of composition and rhetoric, writing program administration and assessment, and masculinity studies. His most recent project, Gender, Sexuality and the Cultural Politics of Men’s Identity in the New Millennium (Routledge), maps the connections between media, popular culture, and the pedagogy of reading and writing the performances of masculinity. This book follows Out in the Center: Public Controversies, Private Struggles (Utah State University Press) (co-edited with Harry Denny, Anna Sicari, Lila Naydan, and Richard Severe), winner of the 2019 International Writing Center Association Book Award, which deepens conversations in writing centers about identity politics by foregrounding authentic voices and experiences of tutors and administrators navigating everyday sessions and the disclosure and embodiment of difference. Dr. Mundy is presently finalizing the edited collection, Come as You Are: Centering the Self in First-Year Writing (co-edited with Alysa Hantgan), and has begun drafting his autoethnographic manuscript that locates the male body as a site of gender conflict and considers body modification as an act of mediation and reclamation.
Education
BA, Stony Brook University
English
D.A. (Doctor of Arts), St. John's University
Composition/Rhetoric
Research and Creative Works
Research Interest
Theories of composition and rhetoric, writing program administration and assessment, and masculinity studies.
Courses Taught
Past Courses
ENG 110: Composition
ENG 120: Critical Writing
ENG 201: Writing in the Disciplines
ENG 212: Introduction to Genre Studies
ENG 215: Rhetorics of the Body
ENG 300: Language and Gender
ENG 304: Growth of the English Language
ENG 343: Language and Identity
ENG 393: Internship
ENG 499: Senior Year Experience/English
WS 115: Intro to Women's & Gender St
WS 115: Intro to Women's, Gender, Sex
WS 268: Men and Masculinities