Assistant Professor, Director of First-Year Writing Department of Rhetoric and Writing University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Melvin Beavers is an Assistant Professor and the First-Year Writing Director in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. His research interests involve writing program administration, composition pedagogy, online writing instruction, rhetorical theory, and popular culture studies. He teaches first-year writing and a variety of upper-level writing courses, that include composition theory, online writing instruction, persuasive writing, and research methods. Additionally, he has presented research and pedagogy at several national conferences, including conferences for the Council of Writing Program Administrators, Conference on College Composition and Communication, and the Association of Rhetoric and Writing Studies.