Assistant Professor
​Office:  Anspach 218
Office Phone:  (989) 774-3139
Email: baile1sk@cmich.edu
 
Areas of expertise and research interests

Composition and Rhetoric
Creative Nonfiction
Writing Center Studies
Travel Writing, particularly the discourse and design of travel guidebooks
 
Courses taught

ENG 103
ENG 201
ENG 301
ENG 303
ENG 397
ENG 493
ENG 601
ENG 697
ENG 718
 
Degrees and Universities

Ph.D. Michigan Technological University (2010)
M.F.A. University of Alaska Fairbanks (1990)
B.A. University of Massachusetts Amherst (1987)
 
Recent publications

“Tutor Handbooks: Heuristic Texts for Negotiating Difference in a Globalized World.”  Praxis: A Writing Center Journal  9.2 (2012)

“Travel Guidebooks, Cultural Narratives, and the American Road Quest.”  Forthcoming in American Road Literature.   Ron Primeau, ed. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2013

Strolling in Hanoi: A Visitor’s Guide to Vietnam’s Capital City (forthcoming from ThingsAsian Press, 2013)