Jeffrey Chisum

Jeffrey Chisum is Professor (Teaching) of Writing. As a teacher of writing, he specializes in curriculum development and assignment design, and was responsible for creating and implementing the General Education course, WRIT 150: Issues in Aesthetics. From 2017-2023, he served as the Associate Director of the Writing Program, and in that role, he oversaw the curriculum that is delivered to the roughly 7,500 students that enroll in Writing Program courses each year, and he led the Program as it piloted and then fully adopted the use of grading contracts....

• Ph.D. Literature & Creative Writing, University of Southern California, 2007
• M.A. English, University of Southern California, 2005
• B.A. Cinema-Television, University of Southern California, 2001
• B.A. English, University of Southern California, 2001