Ryan Dippre
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Ryan J. Dippre (he, him) is Associate Professor of English and Director of College Composition at the University of Maine. He is the co-chair of the Writing through the Lifespan Collaboration; the co-edior of the Lifespan Writing Research book series at the WAC Clearinghouse; the Editor-in-Chief of Northwords: The Maine English Journal. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Institute for Research and Theory Methodologies, and the Executive Board of the Maine Council of English Language Arts. He is a graduate of Wilkes University (B.A., M.S.) and the University of California, Santa Barbara (M.A., Ph.D.).
Research-in-Practice Publications
Articles
Dippre, R. (2025). Editorial Introduction – Saving Each Other: Teaching in Turbulent Times. Northwords 7, 1.
Dippre, R. (2025). Creating Local, Value-Driven Writing Assessments. Northwords 7, 54-58.
Dippre, R. (2023). A Future for Everyone to Live In: Teacher Advocacy in the 2020s. Northwords 5, 25-27.
Dippre, R. (2022). Revisiting What We Value. Northwords 4, 6-8.
Dippre, R. (2020). Grading Student Writing with Labor-Based Contracts. Northwords 2(1), 12-13.
Dippre, R. (2020). Responding to Student Writing in the COVID Era. Northwords 2(1), 20-21.
Chapters
De Piero, Z., & Dippre, R. (2023). How Writing Happens. Writing Spaces, Vol. 5, 43-62.
DiMarzio, E. & Dippre, R. (2013). Research Papers and Social Rehearsal. In D. Latta Kirby & D. Crovitz, Inside Out (pp. 154-157). Portsmouth: Heinemann.
Courses Taught
Undergraduate
English 101: College Composition
English 100/106: Stretch
English 201: Writing Strategies Across Contexts
English 301: Approaches to Teaching Writing
English 315: Research Writing in the Disciplines
English 402: Special Topics in Writing and Research
Graduate
English 693: Principled Practices in the Teaching of Writing
English 570: Critical Theory
English 529: Studies in Language, Literature, and Writing
English 518: Topics in Professional and Technical Writing
Professional Organizations
Writing through the Lifespan Collaboration
Maine Council for English Language Arts
National Council of Teachers of English
Council of Writing Program Administrators
International Society for the Advancement of Writing Research
Conference on College Composition and Communication
Institute for Research and Theory Methodologies
Areas of Expertise
Writing Program Administration
Writing through the Lifespan
