Education	University of California, San Diego PhD English and American Literature Emphasis on Rhetoric and Composition   1991 University of Toronto, O.I.S.E. B.Ed. English Education   1973 University of Wisconsin, Madison M.A., English Literature   1970 University of Wisconsin, Madison B.S., English Literature   1967
Specialization	Working Class Studies, Writing Assessment, Genre Theory
Books	Peckham, Irvin. Introduction to Writing at LSU. Electronic Textbook. New York: McGraw Hill, 2004.
Guest Editor	Peckham, Irvin, Sherry Linkon, and Benjamin Lanier-Nabors. Special Issue of College English: Social Class and English Studies. 67 (2004).
Recent Articles	Peckham, Irvin. "Online Challenge Versus Offline ACT." CCC. Forthcoming. Peckham, Irvin. "Online Placement in First-Year Writing." CCC. 60 (517-40). Peckham, Irvin. "Acting Justly." In A 21st Century Approach To Teaching for Social Justice: Educating for Both Advocacy & Action. Ed. Richard Johnson, III. New York: Peter Lang Press, 2009: 75-90. Peckham, Irvin. "The Stories We Tell." In Considering Class: Essays on the Discourse of the American Dream. Eds. Kevin Cahill and Lene Johannessen. Berlin: Lit Verlag. 2007: 169-182. Peckham, Irvin. "Turning Placement into Practice." Writing Program Administration. 29 (2006): 65-84. Peckham, Irvin. "Interchanges: An Impertinent Answer." College Composition and Communication. 57 (2005): 159-161./p<> Peckham, Irvin, Linda Bergmann, William Condon, Susanmarie Harrington, and Keith Rhodes. "The Outcomes Project: The Insiders' History." In The Outcomes Project: Debate and Consensus after the Outcomes Statement. Eds. Susanmarie Harrington, Keith Rhodes, Ruth Fisher, and Rita Malenczyk. Logan, Utah: Utah State UP, 2005: 8-18. Peckham, Irvin, Sherry Lee Linkon, and Benjamin G. Lanier-Nabors. "Struggling with Class in English Studies," Introduction to special issue of College English, Peckham, Linkon, and Lanier-Nabors, Guest Editors. 67 (2004): 149-153. Peckham, Irvin. "Freirean Codifications." Pedagogy. 3.2 (2003): 227-244. Peckham, Irvin. "An Idealized Outcomes-based First-year Writing Program." In Strategies for Teaching First-year Composition. Eds. Duane Roen, Veronica Pantoja, Lauren Yena, Susan K. Miller, Eric Waggoner. Urbana Il: National Council of Teachers of English. 2002: 69-89.
Recent Presentations	"Nightmares Can Be Useful: Situating Rearticulation Agreements for Required Writing Courses." Writing Program Administration Conference. Minneapolis. July 2009. "Thinking Critically about the Hidden Curriculum in Courses Based on Critical Thinking and Argumentation." 2009 Conference on College Composition and Communication." San Francisco. March 2009. "Negotiating Dual Credit." Louisiana Association for College Composition. Alexandria. November 2008. "Politicizing Firstyear Writing." Writing Program Administration Conference. Denver. July 2008. "Subversive Pedagogy with a Difference: Respecting Student Ethos while Working for Change." Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed. Fourteenth Annual Conference. May 2008. "Critical Pedagogy without a Position." Writing Matters: Baton Rouge Community College Conference. April 2008. "Online Challenge and the SAT/ACT Timed Essays." 2008 Conference on College Composition and Communication." New Orleans. March 2008. "The ACT Essay and LSU's Online Challenge." Louisiana Association for College Composition. New Orleans. November 2007. "Online Challenge Versus Offline ACT Placement. Writing Program Administration Conference. Tempe AZ. July 2007. "Using E-Essay Training To Improve Teacher Response Practices." 2007 Conference on College Composition and Communication." New York. March 2007. "Killing Two Birds with One Stone: On-line Placement and Assessment." Learning without Barriers/Technology without Borders. MIT/ Microsoft iCampus Alliance Conference. November 2006. "Using Large-Scale Assessment to Shape Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Standards." Invited speaker at East Carolina University. September 2006. "Student Achievement and Grade Distribution: An On-line Process for Assessing Both." Writing Program Administration Conference. Chattanooga TN. July 2006. "Online Essay Assessments (Graded by Humans): Uses, Benefits, and Designs." University of Massachusetts, Amherst Conference on Writing, Teaching, and Technology. Amherst MA. April 2006. "Survival Strategies: An Introduction to Administration in Composition." Pre-conference workshop. 2006 Conference on College Composition and Communication." Chicago IL. March 2006. "Working-Class Academics Traversing the Disciplines." 2006 Conference on College Composition and Communication." Chicago IL. March 2006. "Linking Student Achievement to Grade In(de)flation." 2006 Conference on College Composition and Communication." Chicago IL. March 2006. "On-line Challenge at LSU." Writing Program Administration Conference. Anchorage, Alaska. July 2005. "Developing a Technology Statement." Writing Program Administration Conference. Anchorage, Alaska. July 2005. "Dumping Instructors: A Class-based Interpretation of Louisiana's Flagship Agenda"Writing Program Administration Conference. Newark DE. July 2004.
Grants, Awards	Board of Regent's Humanities Enhancement Grant. "Writing Teacher Training and On-line Book Development." $40,520. Spring 2006. Regent's Research Grant. "ACT verses LSU: Generic or Genre-based Writing Assessment." Two-course release for Spring 2007 semester. Fall 2005. Brij Mohan Distinguished Professor Award. 2005. University Committee for the Advancement of Teaching. "A Writing Across the Curriculum Website." $1,000. Spring 2000 (with Rosalie Saltzman). Nebraska Consortium for Service Learning in Higher Education Grant. "Literacy and Social Justice." $2,200. Spring 2000. University Committee on Research. "The Learning Situation of Workplace Writing." $6,400. 1995. University Committee for the Advancement of Teaching Pedagogical Grant. "Pilot Project for Placement by Portfolio Assessment." $4,900. 1994.
Experience	Associate Professor: Louisiana State University. Rhetoric and Composition. Director of the University Writing Program.       2000-Present  Associate Professor: University of Nebraska at Omaha. Rhetoric and Composition. Graduate Program Coordinator (1997-2000); Acting Chair (1998); Program Assessment Coordinator (1996); Writing Program Administrator (1992-1995).      1991-2000 Senior Writing Consultant. National Center on Education and the Economy.      1996-2000