About Tara Lockhart

Tara Lockhart is Professor of English Language and Literatures and former Director of Writing; she teaches undergraduate writing and literature courses, as well as graduate courses in composition, literacy studies, and pedagogy. Professor Lockhart earned her Ph.D. and M.A. at the University of Pittsburgh. Her scholarship focuses on pedagogies for graduate-level writing instruction, writing/learning transfer, hybrid forms of the essay, and promoting writers’ rhetorical and stylistic awareness.  Along with her colleague, Mark Roberge, she is the author of Informed Choices: A Guide for Teachers of College Writing (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2015); with her journal co-editors she is lead editor of Literacy and Pedagogy in an Age of Misinformation and Disinformation (2021). Her published work has appeared in Pedagogy, Enculturation, College English, and Peitho, as well as several edited collections. She is Senior Editor and one of the founding editors of the journal Literacy in Composition Studies.