Norman Douglas ("Doug") Bradley teaches STEM-centered courses, including those within the undergraduate engineering sequence (Writing 1E, 2E, and 50E), Writing for Science and Technology (Writing 109ST), Writing for Health Professionals (Writing 109HP), and Writing and the Research Process (Writing 50) on the topic of urban legends, conspiracy theories, and hoaxes. He also teaches Scientific Literacy (Writing 159A) and Science Communication (Writing 259).

Rebecca Chenoweth teaches Writing 1, 2, 50, 105SW, and 109HP. She is also a founding editor of Synthesis, the Writing Program's Upper-Division publication of excellent student work.

Christene d’Anca teaches Writing 2, 105C, and 109HU. She has a PhD in Comparative Literature with an emphasis in Medieval Studies. Her interdisciplinary research interests include women and storytelling, alternate power structures, and female patronage of the funerary arts. Her articles have been published in the Journal of European Studies, Early Middle English, The Romanian American Journal for the Humanities, Romanische Forschungen, Journal of Animal Ethics, and EuropeNow, with chapters in various edited collections.

Jim Donelan holds multiple appointments between the Writing Program, Department of English, and the College of Creative Studies - Writing & Literature Department, teaching a variety of composition and literary courses accross the curriculum at UCSB.

Brian Ernst teaches Writing 1, 2, 105CD, 105R, 107B, 107WC, 109HU, and 157B. His research interests include rhetorical code studies and narrative design in interactive media. He is also an editor for Starting Lines, a contributor to the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative, a member of the Collaborative Writing Placement Program, a mentor in the Raab Writing Fellows Program, junior Co-Director of the Professional Writing Minor Business Communication Track, and Faculty Liaison with the SASC Undergraduate Advisor. Further, he recently joined the Writing Spaces team as an Associate Editor for the Activities & Assignments Archive in Fall 2023. Dr. Ernst completed his Ph.D. in Modern European History at the end of 2014.

Daniel Frank teaches First Year Composition, multimedia, and technical writing. Dan’s research interests include AI Art and Writing technologies, game-based pedagogy, virtual text-spaces, passionate affinity spaces, and connected learning. Dan is continually interested in helping students find their own passion as they learn to create, play, and communicate research, argumentation, and writing, across genres, networks, and digital communities.

Peter teaches Writing 2 and 105WE: Writing and Ethics. His teaching and research explores the politics of inequality and modern/postmodern literature. He is interested in the ways that political ideologies, cultural or institutional practices, and public policies underwrite or alleviate social and economic inequalities. In particular, he is interested in democratic theories and neoliberal forms of governance and subjectivity, as well as how they are represented in late 20th and 21st century film, literature, and journalism.

Leslie Hammer teaches Writing 1, Writing 2, Writing for Cultural Rhetorics (105CR), Writing for Chicanx Studies (109CS), Writing for the Humanities (109HU), Writing for the Social Sciences (109SS), and the ACE sequence. She received her Ph.D. in Literature from UC San Diego. Her research interests include nineteenth-century US Literature, multiethnic US literature, Native Hawaiian texts, US women's writing, transnational literature, and autobiography studies.  She is the Chair of the Academic Communities of Excellence (ACE) Program and Writing 1 Committee.

Deborah Harris is Associate Director and Continuing Lecturer in the Writing Program, and teaches a wide variety of classes (lower-division, upper-division, and graduate levels) ranging from science writing to writing in the humanities. Her book, Media and the Rhetoric of Body Perfection: Cosmetic Surgery, Weight Loss, and Beauty in Popular Culture (Routledge, 2014) explores the transformation imperatives advertised by the media, especially in the West. Her research interests include medical rhetoric, body rhetoric, popular culture, and composition.  

Victoria’s research and teaching are animated by her investments in building just, equitable, and communal frameworks for embodied life through the practice of writing. Her research interests center on cultural and feminist rhetorics with specific attention to gender, sexuality, reproductive justice, and trauma.

Peter Huk teaches a variety of writing classes, primarily the engineering writing sequence, Writing for Global Careers, Writing for Film, and Writing for the Humanities. His pedagogy and research interests include contemplative inquiry and reflection in the writing classroom and representation in documentary film.

Paul M. Rogers is an Associate Professor of Writing Studies in the UCSB Writing Program and a proud alumni of UCSB's Gevirtz Graduate School of Education where he completed his PhD in 2008. He is the former Director of the Northern Virginia Writing Project, a co-founder and former chair of the International Society for the Advancement of Writing Research, and the co-editor of eight collections, including “International Models of Changemaker Education” (2022), "Toward a Re-Emergence of James Moffett's Mindful, Spiritual, and Student-Centered Pedagogy" (2023), and “Writing as a Human Activity" (2023).  He is a recipient of the K. Patricia Cross Award for leadership in higher education and a co-recipient of the Janet Emig Award for research in English education. He teaches courses in academic and business writing, qualitative research methods, professional and technical communication, and social entrepreneurship. 

Karen Lunsford teaches Science Writing for the Public (105SW), Writing for the Health Professions (109HP), Writing for Science and Technology (109ST), Academic Research Writing (251), Teaching Technical Communication (252), the Proseminar for the Writing Studies Emphasis (502A/B), and Literacy in the Information Age (Education 202F).

Ilene Miele teaches advanced courses in professional writing like Writing for the Teaching Professions (109ED), Writing about Sustainability (105S), and Creative Nonfiction (105C). She also teaches Writing 1 and 2 for the ACE Program (Academic Communities of Excellence).

Nomi Morris teaches Journalism and News Writing (107J), Magazine Writing for Publication (107M) and Advanced Beat Reporting (152A).  She serves as director of the Journalism track in UC Santa Barbara’s Professional Writing Minor.  Morris came to UCSB with a background in international journalism, as well as covering the arts and religion, and writing narrative nonfiction, essay, and commentary. Her work has been published in TIME, Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Ascent and other media outlets and literary journals. She has been a foreign correspondent in Europe and the Middle East and holds an MFA in Creative Writing (Nonfiction).

Kathy Patterson (she, her, hers) teaches Approaches to University Writing, Academic Writing, Writing in Community, Writing for the Social Sciences, and Writing for the Humanities, and a first-year Discovery seminar focused on collective memory and what it means to be a Gaucho. She also teaches regularly in the ACE (Academic Communities for Excellence) program. Her research interests include blogging pedagogy, community writing, Disability Studies, and Memory Studies. 

Aili Pettersson Peeker teaches Writing 2 and Science Writing for the Public. She holds a PhD in English with an emphasis in Cognitive Science from UCSB. Her research interests are interdisciplinary and focus on bringing together cognitive neuroscience, literary studies, writing, and pedagogy. She is currently the Research Coordinator for the UCSB Trauma-Informed Pedagogy project.