Rochelle Gold

Rochelle Gold has been teaching in the Writing Program at USC since 2015. Her classes emphasize critical thinking, collaboration, and multimodality. Currently, she teaches Writing 150: Issues in Sustainability and Writing 340: Writing Sustainability Into Action.

She was awarded the General Education Writing Award in 2023. With several Writing Program colleagues, she founded Rooted, a website and print anthology that showcases student writing about sustainability and environmentalism.

She has recently presented her research on composition pedagogy at national and regional conferences including CCCC, Computers and Writing, Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference, and NCTE. Her work has appeared in Criticism, Electronic Book Review, and Teaching Literature with Digital Technology. 

Outside of the classroom, she spends her time reading, listening to podcasts, watching TV, and being outdoors as much as possible. She values civic engagement and enjoys supporting students in their own civic engagement work.

• Ph.D. English, University of California, Riverside, 2015
• M.A. English, University of California, Riverside, 2011
• B.A. Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles, 2007