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Rory Lukins

Associate Professor (Teaching) of Writing
Email rlukins@email.usc.edu Office JEF 150 Office Phone (213) 740-1980

Education

  • Ph.D. Literature, University of Southern California, 8/2011
  • M.A. English, Georgetown Univ, 5/2003
  • B.A. UC – Davis , 6/2000

  • Conference Presentations

    • “Questioning the Contract: Faculty Responses to Institutional Grading Contracts” , Council of Writing Program Administrators Summer ConferenceTalk/Oral Presentation, 2022-2023
    • “Rethinking Antonio Gramsci’s Place in Theories of Rhetoric and Composition” , Conference on College Composition and CommunicationTalk/Oral Presentation, Spring 2023
    • “Maturity Effects on Writing Assessment: When & When Not to Grade Student Writing” , The Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Annual ConferenceTalk/Oral Presentation, Fall 2022
    • “Rethinking Grading: Exploring Alternatives to Conventional Assessment” , The Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Annual ConferenceRoundtable/Panel, Fall 2022
    • “Avoiding Anxiety: Grading Contracts & the Empathetic Classroom” , Council of Writing Program Administrators Annual ConferenceTalk/Oral Presentation, 2021-2022
    • “Grading contracts, Instructional Labor, and Institutional Change: Considering Instructor Experience of Grading Contracts in a Programmatic Setting” , Conference on College Composition and CommunicationTalk/Oral Presentation, Spring 2022
    • “The Rubric & the Contract: Final Results from USC’s Contract-Grading Pilot Program” , Conference on College Composition and CommunicationTalk/Oral Presentation, Fall 2021
    • “The Contract & the Empathetic Classroom” , Regional Conference on College Composition and CommunicationTalk/Oral Presentation, Fall 2020
    • “The Rubric & the Contract: Initial Results from USC’s Contract-Grading Pilot Program” , Conference on College Composition and CommunicationTalk/Oral Presentation, Spring 2020

    Other Presentations

    • “Pedagogical Approaches to Contract Grading” , Faculty Showcase, Los Angeles, 2022-2023
    • “Labor & Grading Contracts: Innovations for Assessment in Rhetoric & Composition”, Joint Provost/Academic Senate Retreat, Los Angeles, 2021-2022

  • Encyclopedia Article

    • Lukins, R. G. (2012). “Sir John Taylor” & “Sir John Suckling” in Blackwell Encyclopedia of English Renaissance Literature. London: Wiley-Blackwell.

    Journal Article

    • Lukins, R. G. (2010). “Manifesting Symbolic Necessity: Sound and the Signification Chain in Othello.”. The Shakespeare Yearbook. Vol. 19, pp. 211-234.
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