Jeremy Levine

Thank you for visiting this page! I am an Assistant Teaching Professor at Wake Forest University, where I teach first-year composition courses that emphasize the role of schooling in shaping students' writing processes and goals. I completed my PhD at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where I taught a general education introduction to Writing Studies, First-Year Writing, and Basic Writing. I've also been involved with GTA training, WID administration and professional development, and writing center tutoring. Through Bay Path University, I have served as a dissertation writing coach for Ed.D students.

My research focuses on the role of the Common Core State Standards in secondary school writing education, and how standards tests do (or do not) affect what teachers do. I combine this attention to teaching and administration with student interviews, to see how the work done in those high school classrooms follows students to college. I am also beginning work on the intersections of grading, equity, and student agency.

Through all of this work, I sustain one central idea: writing is an opportunity to explore your sense of self and how you can make your way in the world. To do this, writers need readers and teachers who are intellectually and emotionally supportive and inclusive, and who are willing to open up the available repertoire of writing possibilities.