Christina J. Michaud
Lecturer, College of Arts and Sciences Writing Program, Boston University

Contact information:

Email: cmichaud@bu.edu (best way to contact me)

Office: 236 Bay State Road (English Department building, behind CAS, parallel to Comm Ave), room 435 (up the stairs, to the right--note new room for Fall 2009)

Mailbox: Writing Center, 730 Commonwealth Avenue, third floor

Office hours for Fall 2009: Mondays and Fridays 8:30-9:30, Wednesdays 2:15-3:15, and by appointment

Background and Education:

Born and raised in New York, I graduated from Wellesley College in 1997 with a degree in English literature and experience tutoring writing. After a year in the English Ph.D. program at the University of California, Berkeley, I moved to Los Angeles and taught conversational English part-time while working in the rare book field. In 2001 I returned to Boston to get an Ed.M. in teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) at the BU School of Education. I’ve been a full-time instructor in the CAS Writing Program since September 2003. In addition to teaching in the BU Writing Program, I'm currently working on my Ed.D. in Literacy and Language. I'm married, and my husband Robert and I live in the South End near Symphony Hall with our son Marcus.

Teaching information:

I teach WR 097 and WR 098, the ESL writing classes mainly for first-year international students, as well as WR 100 and WR 150, general first-year composition and research. My usual teaching schedule is MWF 10:00-2:00, but check the course catalogue for specific times and sections.

Research interests:

Broadly, I have research interests in composition, rhetoric, language, literacy, literature, and women's studies.

Metaphor studies and implicit/explicit views of the TESOL profession
Lesson planning and more effective teacher training for adult ESL teachers
ESL speaking-writing connections and the role of oral correction in writing classrooms
ESL speaking-reading connections and the role of pronunciation training in reading lessons
The Case of the Migrating Morpheme: "I'm Agree," "He's Live," and Other Puzzles

Disambiguation of competitors in expert and novice academic writing
Criterion-referenced writing assessment in theory and practice

Childbirth and women’s roles in British and American 20th century literature
Uninhabitable houses in sensation fiction by Collins and Braddon
Literary vampires from Byron to Buffy
Feminist retellings of myths and legends
Contemporary British women novelists and themes of identity and sexuality

Women's birth narratives, imagery choices, and their constructions of heroism
The Technology-Human Dichotomy: Women's Perceptions of Continuous Fetal Monitoring During Labor

Personal webpage: http://www.robertandchristina.com

Last modified: 8/12/09