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Marcy Carbajal Van Horn

Marcy Carbajal Van Horn has served as the ESL specialist for Hacker Handbooks. Formerly of Sante Fe College and St. Edward’s University, she has worked as a composition teacher and as an online writing lab coordinator to help a wide range of students improve their academic writing.

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Nick Carbone

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Janice Carlisle

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William C. Carroll

William C. Caroll is professor of English at Boston University.  He has published widely in English Renaissance literature, including The Great Feast of Language in LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST (1976), The Metamorphoses of Shakespearean Comedy (1985), and Fat King, Lean Beggar: Representations of Poverty in the Age of Shakespeare (1996).  He has also edited Thomas Middleton's play Women Beware Women (1994).  He has held senior fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities.  In 1980 he was awarded the Metcalf Cup and Prize as the outstanding teacher at Boston University.

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Domenick Caruso

Stephen Weidenborner was a professor of English at Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York, for over thirty years. He coauthored several other composition textbooks with Domenick Caruso, also a former professor of English at Kingsborough Community College.

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Willa Cather

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Samuel Charters

Samuel Charters has taught creative writing and published widely in a variety of genres, including eleven books of poetry, four novels, a book of criticism on contemporary American poetry, a biography (coauthored with Ann Charters) of the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, and translations of the poetry of Tomas Transtromer and Edith Sodergran. An ethnomusicologist, he produces blues and jazz recordings and has published many books about music, among them a history of New Orleans jazz and a study of bluesman Robert Johnson.

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Ann Charters

Ann Charters received her B.A. at Berkeley and her Ph.D. at Columbia. She first met Kerouac at a poetry reading in Berkeley in 1956, and compiled a comprehensive bibliography of his work in 1967. A professor of English at the University of Connecticut, she is also the editor of Selected Letters of Jack Kerouac and the Portable Kerouac Reader, and the author of Beats and Company: Portrait of a Literary Generation.

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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Charles W. Chesnutt

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Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater

Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina–Greensboro, where she teaches nonfiction writing, research methods, and English education. She is director of the composition program and director of graduate studies in the women's and gender studies program.

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Kate Chopin

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Virginia Clark

Virginia Clark was a professor of English at the University of Vermont and served as chair of the English department. With Paul Eschholz and Alfred Rosa, she is the coauthor of Language Awareness, Ninth Edition.

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Patrick Clauss

Patrick Clauss is the Director of First Year Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Notre Dame. He studies the relationships among argumentation theory, composition theory and pedagogy, and rhetoric. He teaches undergraduate writing and rhetoric courses and a graduate practicum on the teaching of writing. His most recently scholarly work addresses the roles of informal logic and critical thinking in the composition classroom.

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John Clifford

John Clifford (PhD, New York University) is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Editor of The Experience of Reading: Louis Rosenblatt and Reader-Response Theory, he has published numerous scholarly articles on pedagogy, critical theory, and composition theory, most recently in College English; Relations, Locations, Positions: Composition Theory for Writing Teachers; and in The Norton Book of Composition Studies.

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