Kara Wittman

Kara Wittman specializes in 19th-century British literature and narrative and novel theory; she also works on the theory and practice of writing pedagogy, rhetoric, and composition. Her current project is study of the relationship between the marginalia readers leave in works of literature and the feedback reviewers and professors offer in the margins of student work. She is also interested in representations of phatic communication (small talk, loosely) in works of fiction and then again in literature and writing classrooms. Wittman’s essays have been published by the Northern California Writing Center Association and in College Composition and Communication.