Patricia Belanoff

Peter Elbow is Professor of English at the University of MasPat Belanoff is Director of Writing Programs at the State Unsachusetts at Amherst. Before writing A Community of Writersiversity of New York-Stony Brook. She is president of the SU, he wrote two other books about writing: Writing Without TeNY Council on Writing and a member of the College Steering Cachers and Writing with Power: Techniques for Mastering the ommittee of NCTE. Pat is a co-author (with Besty Rorschach aWriting Process. He...See more

Peter Elbow is Professor of English at the University of MasPat Belanoff is Director of Writing Programs at the State Unsachusetts at Amherst. Before writing A Community of Writersiversity of New York-Stony Brook. She is president of the SU, he wrote two other books about writing: Writing Without TeNY Council on Writing and a member of the College Steering Cachers and Writing with Power: Techniques for Mastering the ommittee of NCTE. Pat is a co-author (with Besty Rorschach aWriting Process. He is author of a book of essays about learnd Mia Oberlink) of The Right Handbook, now in its second edning and teaching: Embracing Contraries. He also wrote Opposition. She has also co-edited (with Marcia Dickson) Portfoliitions in Chaucer, as well as numerous essays about writing os: Process and Product and (with Peter Elbow and Sheryl Fonand teaching. His most recent book, What Is English? exploretaine) Nothing Begins With an N: New Investigations of Freews current issues in the profession of English. He has taughtriting. Pat has a degree in medieval literature from New Yor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Franconia Colk University and continues to teach and publish in this arealege, Evergreen State College, and the State University of N, too. ew York at Stony Brook--where for five years he directed the Writing Program. He served for four years on the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association and is now a member of the Executive Committee of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. He has given talks and workshops at many colleges and university. He attended Williams College and Harvard University and has an M.A. from Exeter College, Oxford University, and a Ph.D. from Brandeis University. See less