Dr. Christine Photinos

Contact Information

Dr. Christine Photinos

College: School of Arts, Letters, and Sciences

Department: Arts & Humanities

cphotinos@nu.edu

(858)642-8349

Torrey Pines South Campus


Education

UC San Diego - PHD - Literature
Christine Photinos is the director of the Rhetoric Specialization in the MA English program. She teaches classes in rhetoric, technical writing, composition, composition pedagogy, information literacy, film, and American literature.

Memberships

  • Conference on College Composition and Communication
  • National Council of Teachers of English
  • Rhetoric Society of America

Publications

  • Dr. Christine E. Photinos. (January 01, 2022). ![CDATA[Connecting Rhetorical Studies and Literary Studies in the Online Literature Class]]. Teaching Literature in the Online Classroom.

  • C. Photinos, S. Feder-Lewis. (January 01, 2018). ![CDATA[Adult Learners and Basic Writing]]. BWe: Basic Writing E-Journal.

  • Dr. Christine E. Photinos. (January 01, 2018). ![CDATA[After Cliffs: The New Literature Study Guide and the Rhetoric of the Recap]]. Modern Language Studies.

  • Dr. Christine E. Photinos. (January 01, 2016). ![CDATA[Critical Engagement with Numbers and Images]]. Critical Library Pedagogy Handbook, vol. 2..

  • Dr. Christine E. Photinos. (January 01, 2015). ![CDATA[Social Tools in Online Writing Courses: Challenges and Opportunities for Adult Learners]]. Notes on Teaching English.

  • Dr. Christine E. Photinos. (January 01, 2015). ![CDATA[How to Read a URL]]. A Rhetorical Approach to Workplace Writing.

  • Dr. Christine E. Photinos. (January 01, 2015). ![CDATA[Underutilized Google Search Tools]]. The Complete Guide to Using Google in Libraries.

  • Dr. Christine E. Photinos. (January 01, 2011). ![CDATA[The Crime Fiction of Leigh Brackett]]. Popular Culture Review.

  • Dr. Christine E. Photinos. (January 01, 2010). ![CDATA[Cornell Woolrich and the Tough-Man Tradition of American Crime Fiction]]. Clues: A Journal of Detection.

  • Dr. Christine E. Photinos. (January 01, 2009). ![CDATA[Teaching 1930s-1940s Hard-boiled Detective Fiction and 1940s-1950s Detective Noir]]. Murder 101: Essays on the Teaching of Det. Fict..

  • Dr. Christine E. Photinos. (January 01, 2008). ![CDATA[The Tramp in American Literature, 1873-1939]]. AmeriQuests.

  • Dr. Christine E. Photinos. (January 01, 2007). ![CDATA[Tracking Changes in Jack London's Representation of the Railroad Tramp]]. The Journal of American Culture.

  • Dr. Christine E. Photinos. (January 01, 2007). ![CDATA[The Figure of the Tramp in Gilded Age Success Narratives]]. The Journal of Popular Culture.

  • Dr. Christine E. Photinos. (January 01, 2006). ![CDATA[Transiency and Transgression in the Autobiographies of Barbara Starke and 'Boxcar' Bertha Thompson]]. Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.

Presentations

  • (2019-11-17). Teaching Film Rhetoric with Online Resources and Tools. Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Annual Conference. San Diego, California.
  • (2018-06-23). The Visual Rhetoric of Literary Study Guides. Visual Communication Conference (VISCOM). San Diego, California.
  • (2016-11-11). Digital Image Archives as Resources for the Teaching of Visual Rhetoric. Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Annual Conference. Pasadena, California.
  • (2016-04-08). Photojournalism Under the Lens: Examining the Rhetoric of the Press Photograph. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Digital Pedagogy Poster Session. Houston, Texas.
  • (2014-03-20). Social Tools in Online Writing Courses: Challenges and Opportunities for Adult Learners. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Indianapolis, Indiana.
  • (2011-04-07). Paying Attention to What is Behind the Curtain: An Introductory HTML Activity. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Digital Pedagogy Poster Session. Atlanta, Georgia.