Roger Powell, PhD

Roger Powell teaches writing, speaking, and education classes at Graceland, and fully believes in holistic student development. This term means helping students build transferrable writing and communication knowledge and skills that they apply to various contexts, helping them build positive dispositions about their intelligence, skills, and writing/speaking abilities, such as helping them develop a growth mindset, and creating opportunities in the classroom and beyond where they discover what ideas and aspects of life are most meaningful to them.

Roger’s research primarily focuses on the following areas: writing centers, composition, responding to student writing, writerly dispositions, writing transfer, writing and retention, and creative writing. His solo and co-authored articles have appeared in The Journal of Response to Writing, Writing Spaces, Composition Forum, Praxis: A Writing Center Journal, The Peer Review, and the Writing Lab Newsletter: Digital Edited Collection. He is also currently working on a novel and has published poetry in the past.