Writing About Science for the Public

Speakers

Eugene Hammond

English Department Chair, Stony Brook University

Gene Hammond served as a nuclear engineer in the US Navy, and has degrees in English from Notre Dame, Oxford University, and Yale University. He has been Chair of the English Department at the University of Maryland and has directed the Writing Programs at Maryland and at SUNY Stony Brook. He has conducted writing workshops for judges in Colorado, Louisiana, and Florida, for law clerks in Louisiana, for MBA students in Maryland, and for scientists at Stony Brook and at UCLA. He is the author of a textbook, Thoughtful Writing, now in its third edition; of an ESL book, Travels through the English Sentence, and of a forthcoming biography, Jonathan Swift, Irish Blow-In.

Peter H. Khost

Associate Director Writing and Rhetoric, Stony Brook University

Peter H. Khost, PhD, is the Associate Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stony Brook University, where he has taught undergraduate and graduate writing courses for more than twelve years. Peter has published on pedagogical and professional issues in higher education, and his scholarly interests include writing program administration, writing in the disciplines, collaboration, reader-response theory, holistic learning, and the literature/composition divide.

Ann Horbey

Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stony Brook University

Professor Horbey teaches writing, rhetoric, and grammar at Stony Brook University. She developed the university's first three-credit grammar course, Grammar and Style for Writers, which she teaches every semester. She has also collaborated with the College of Business to develop an honors program in business ethics. Each fall, she works with honors business students to help them research, write, and revise a senior thesis. In addition to teaching in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric, she teaches a writing immersion lab for majors and minors in the School of Journalism.

Thomas Tousey

Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stony Brook University

Thomas Tousey has taught writing at Stony Brook University for the past fifteen years. Before coming to Stony Brook, he taught writing at Hofstra University and worked as a production editor for Physical Review Letters.

Kristina Lucenko

Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stony Brook University

Kristina Lucenko received her PhD in English from the University at Buffalo, and is currently a lecturer in the Writing and Rhetoric Program at Stony Brook University. She has taught a range of writing courses at the undergraduate and graduate level, including science writing, the personal essay, and professional writing in the health sciences. She has also led writing workshops at the elementary school, high school, and adult literacy levels, in addition to serving as an editor for the National Audubon Society Field Guide series. Her research interests include writing instruction, autobiography, service learning, and digital humanities. Her essays, poems, and translations have appeared in AGNI, Paterson Literary Review, and Post Road, among other journals.