
English Department
Peter
Kittle
Professor
Director, Northern California Writing Project
English Education
Phone: 530-898-3241
Office: SISK 109A
pkittle@csuchico.edu
Education
- PhD English, University of Oregon, 1998
- MA English, University of Oregon, 1995
- BS English Education, Oregon State University, 1987
Research and scholarly interests:
- technology and literacy
- composition pedagogy
- institutional theory
- cultural studies
- critical pedagogy
- children's literature
- contemporary British novelists
I am currently working on two scholarly projects, both focused on technology and literacy. The first is a study of memes in pedagogy; the second is a theorizing of identity in the age of digital distribution.
Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do."