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Courtney Novosat

Senior Lecturer

Bio

Courtney Novosat (she/her) is the course lead for Writing about Public Problems (76-108) and a founding co-editor of WOVEN: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Dietrich College. For more than twenty years, she has taught first-year writing, professional writing, literature, and courses in the humanities. A writer for Bedford/St.Martin’s since 2008, Courtney has contributed to more than a dozen composition, rhetoric, and literature textbooks and co-authored five resource guides advising instructors on assignment design and teaching approach. Pursuant to her interests in instructional design and writing program administration, she is collaborating on two writing studies pedagogy projects. The first will pilot a new approach for developing the change proposal in 76-108 and the second centers on developing a professional persona, with a focus on expanding DEIB teaching practices in the TPC classroom. Courtney also maintains a research agenda as a literary historian focusing on how narratives of race and resistance shape nineteenth century American novels (particularly utopias/dystopias) and exhibition spaces; she most recently contributed a chapter to (University of Georgia Press, 2022).

Education

Ph.D., West Virginia University (2016)  

M.A., Duquesne University (2005)

B.A., Duquesne University (2002)