Robert Rozema

Professor
Department of English
English Education

243 Lake Huron Hall
(616) 331-8573
[email protected]

Robert Rozema

Courses
ENG 310 Teaching Writing: Secondary
ENG 311 Teaching Literature to Adolescents
ENG/DS 314 Digital Literacies
ENG 330 Studies in Fiction
ED 331 Methods and Strategies for Secondary Teaching
ED 432 Student Teaching in English

Research Interests
Secondary English Education, Comics Studies, Critical Autism Studies.    

Select Publications

 “Remaking the Image of Autism: How Comics can Reboot Autistic Representation.” In All in the Mind: Adaptations of Mental and Cognitive Disability in Popular Media (Eds., Hardin and Kiernan), 2022. 

"Waiting for Autistic Superman: On Autistic Representation in Superhero Comics." Ought: The Journal of Autistic Culture 1.2 (Spring 2020): 10-41.

Seeing the Spectrum: Teaching Autistic Adolescents Through the English Language Arts (Teachers College Press, 2018).

"Manga and the Autistic Mind."  English Journal  105.1 (2015): 60-68.

Early Career English Teachers in Action: Learning from Experience, Developing Expertise. With Lindsay Ellis.  Routledge: New York, 2014. 

"Building the Secondary World."  Teaching Literature in Virtual Worlds.  Ed. Allen Webb. Routledge Press, 2011.

"From Muds to the Metaverse: The Past and Future of Immersive Literary Environments."  Teaching Literature in Virtual Worlds.  Ed. Allen Webb.  Routledge Press, 2011.

Literature and the Web: Reading and Responding with New Technologies. (with Allen Webb). Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.  (2008).

Education
B.A., Calvin College
M.A., Michigan State University
Ph.D., Western Michigan University



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