Carol Hayes
Carol Hayes
Director, Writing in the Disciplines; Assistant Professor of Writing
Contact:
Ames Hall
2100 Foxhall Road, NW, Office 228
Washington DC 20007
Carol Hayes is an Assistant Professor of Writing in the University Writing Program and is currently serving as the Deputy Director of Writing in the Disciplines. She has taught first-year writing at GW since 2001, with themes ranging from urban human geography to profanity to writing studies. Her current teaching asks students to engage in social science research methods to research and write about their own and others' experiences as writers. Having served as deputy director and director of both First-Year Writing and the GW Writing Center, Dr. Hayes has almost fifteen years of administrative experience. Her research focuses on writing transfer, genre awareness, and writing in the STEM disciplines, and her work has appeared in WPA: Writing Program Administration, Composition Forum, Written Communication, and several edited collections. In 2011, she began working with a multi-institutional research team on the Writing Transfer Project, which continues to develop and research genre-based teaching of writing. On sabbatical in spring 2023, she is particularly excited to be heading to Trondheim, Norway, for the Writing Research Across Borders conference.
UW2111W: Preparation for Peer Tutors of Writing
UW1020: The Rules of Writing--and How to Break them
UW1020: WTF?! Profanity and Its Contexts
Hayes, Carol. “Don’t Leave Home Without It! A Guide to the Research Prospectus in First-Year Writing (and Beyond).” Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments.
Riedner, Rachel C, Bill Briscoe, Alexander van der Horst, Carol Hayes, Gary White. “Collaborating between Writing and STEM: Teaching Disciplinary Genres, Researching Disciplinary Interventions, and Engaging Science Audiences [Poster].” Journal of Academic Writing, vol. 10, no. 1, 2020, EATAW Conference 2019 Special Issue. https://doi.org/10.18552/joaw.v10i1.581
Driscoll, Dana Lynn, Joe Paszek, Gwen Gorzelsky, Carol Hayes, and Ed Jones. “Genre Knowledge and Writing Development: Results from the Writing Transfer Project.” Written Communication, 37.1 (January 2020). 69-103.
Hayes, Carol, Ed Jones, Dana Lynn Driscoll, and Gwen Gorzelsky. “Adapting Writing About Writing: Curricular Implications of Cross-Institutional Data from the Writing Transfer Project.” WPA: Writing Program Administration, 41.2 (Spring 2018). 65-88.
Gorzelsky, Gwen, Carol Hayes, Joe Paszek, Ed Jones, and Dana Lynn Driscoll. “Meaningful Practice: Adaptive Learning, Writing Instruction, and Writing Research." Chapter for Contemporary Perspectives on Cognition and Writing. Eds. Patricia Portanova, Michael Rifenburg, and Duane Roen. WAC Clearinghouse, 2017. 115-132.
Gorzelsky, Gwen, Carol Hayes, Ed Jones, and Dana Lynn Driscoll. “Cueing and Adapting First-Year Writing Knowledge: Support for Transfer into Disciplinary Writing.” In Jessie L. Moore and Randall Bass (Eds.), Understanding Writing Transfer: Implications for Transformative Student Learning in Higher Education, pp. 115-121. Stylus Publishing, 2017.
Gorzelsky, Gwen, Dana Lynn Driscoll, Joe Paszek, Ed Jones, and Carol Hayes. “Cultivating Constructive Metacognition: A New Taxonomy for Writing Studies.” In Chris M. Anson and Jessie L. Moore (Eds.) Critical Transitions: Writing and the Question of Transfer, pp. 215-246. University Press of Colorado, 2016.
Driscoll, Dana Lynn, Gwen Gorzelsky, Jennifer Wells, Carol Hayes, Ed Jones, and Steve Salchak. “Down the Rabbit Hole: Challenges and Methodological Recommendations in Researching Writing-Related Student Dispositions.” Composition Forum. Vol. 35, Spring 2017. http://compositionforum.com/issue/35/
Hayes, Carol, and Phyllis Ryder. “A First-Year Writing Conference, Citizenship and Public Space.” Politics and Culture Issue 3, 2003. https://politicsandculture.org/2010/08/10/carol-hayes-and-phyllis-ryder-a-first-year-writin-2/
Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of California, Irvine (2000)
M.A. in English Literature from the University of California, Irvine (1993)
B.A. in Creative Writing from Florida State University (1991)