Paul Kessler Rogers

Photo of Dr. Paul M. Rogers, Associate Professor of Writing Studies
Associate Professor; Director of the Ph.D. Emphasis in Writing Studies

Specialization

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. 

 

Education


May 2008

Ph.D., Education - Language, Literacy and Composition

University of California, Santa Barbara

2006

Master of Arts, Education

University of California, Santa Barbara 

2003

Master of Arts, English – Emphasis in Teaching Writing

Humboldt State University

2000

Bachelor of Arts, Communication

Humboldt State University

 

Publications

Selected Recent Publications

Books

Edited Volumes

Marine, J.M., Rogers, P.M., Blau, S., K. Kelly. (Eds.). (2023). James Moffett's Holistic and Spiritual Pedagogy: Toward a Re-emergence of the Student-Centered. New York: Peter Lang Verlag. http://dx.doi.org/10.3726/b19645

 

Rogers, P.M., Russell, D., Carlino, P & Marine, J.M. (Eds). (2023). Writing as a human activity: Implications and applications of the work of Charles Bazerman. WAC Clearinghouse https://wac.colostate.edu/books/perspectives/human

 

Alexandrowicz, A. & Rogers, (Eds.) P.M. (2022). International Models of Changemaker Education: Programs, Methods, and Design. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781475861488

 

Journal Articles

Leon, K., Rogers, P.M., Quezada, R. & Velasquez, S. (2024). A Justice Oriented Examination of Teacher Education through the Lens of Deans’ Innovations and Leadership in Schools of Education. Journal of Education for Teaching, (50)2

https://doi.org/10.1080/02607476.2023.2296446

 

Rogers, P.M. (2023). Reconceptualizing Response to Writing from a Longitudinal Perspective: Writing Development and Dialogic Interaction. Perspectiva Educacional 62(2), 60-86. https://doi.org/10.4151/07189729-Vol.62-Iss.2-Art.1415

 

Michiels, P., Kessler, K., & Rogers, P.M. (2023). Paraphrase Patterns of Expert Academic Writers: Implications for Writing Development, Writing Pedagogy, and Plagiarism Policies. Literatura y Lingüística, (46). https://ediciones.ucsh.cl/index.php/lyl/article/view/3133

 

Rogers, P., Quezada, R., León, K., & Velázquez, S. (2022). Learning and adaptation during the Covid-19 pandemic: Colleges of education as centers of leadership and innovation. Educatio Siglo XXI , 40(3), 251–266. https://doi.org/10.6018/educatio.535441

 

Rogers, P.M., Marine, J., Ives, S., Parsons, S., Horton, A., & Young, C. (2022). Validity evidence for a formative writing engagement assessment in elementary grades. Assessment in Education. Principles, Policy & Practice 29(2).262-284. https://doi.org/10.1080/0969594X.2022.2054942

 

Book Chapters

Marine, J.M., & Rogers, P.M. (2023). Moffett's Turn to the Spiritual and Meditative. In Marine, J.M., Rogers, P.M., Blau, S., & Kelly, K. (Eds.). James Moffett's Holistic and Spiritual Pedagogy: Toward a Re-emergence of the Student-Centered. New York: Peter Lang Verlag. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370714531_Moffett's_Turn_to_the...

 

Kessler, K. & Rogers, P.M.  (2023). Writing and social progress: Genre evolution in the field of social entrepreneurship. In Rogers, P.M., Russell, D., Carlino, P & Marine, JM. Writing as a human activity: Implications and applications of the work of Charles Bazerman. Colorado State University Open Press, University Press of Colorado, The WAC Clearinghouse. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3wf1w805

 

Ives, S. T., Parsons, S. A., Marine, J., Rogers, P. M., Horton, A., & Young, C. (2022). Students' Writing Engagement. In Hodges, T. (Ed.). Handbook of Research on Writing Instruction Practices for Equitable and Effective Teaching. (pp. 155-172). IGI Global. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-3745-2.ch008

 

Rogers, P.M., & Alexandrowicz, A. (2022). Changemaker education: Reframing learning and teaching for a world of change. In Alexandrowicz, A. & Rogers, P.M., (Eds;) International Models of Changemaker Education: Programs, Methods, and Design. Lanham, MD. Rowman and Littlefield. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370046702_Changemaker_Education...

 

Special Issues

Anson, Chris., Marine, J. Navarro, F., & Rogers, P. M. (Eds.). (2023). Writing Research Across Borders: Papers from the 2021 Virtual Writing Research across Borders Conference. Literatura y Linguistica. (46).  https://doi.org/10.29344/0717621X.46.3416

Courses

Writing 2 Academic Writing

Writing 107B Business and Adminstrative Writing

Writing 107G Writing for Global Careers

Writing 107WC Writing for the Web

Writing 502 Proseminar in Writing Studies