Michael Petracca taught the creative nonfiction sequence, Writing for the Social Sciences (109SS), Writing for Education (109ED), Writing about Film (109F), and other research-related courses. Petracca is co-author of Common Culture: Reading And Writing About American Popular Culture and other novels, textbooks, articles, and short stories, many of which can be found online athttp://www.writing.ucsb.edu/faculty/petracca/.