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I completed my MA in English at Virginia Tech in 2006.  After graduating from Virginia Tech, I moved to Northern Virginia where I began teaching at Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA), first as an adjunct and a year later as a full-time faculty member.

I teach primarily First-Year Composition and Advanced Composition, but teach literature occasionally.  In fact, during the summer of 2011), I taught Survey of Popular Culture for the first time.  It was a perfect blend of my nerdy interests and my love to teach.  I plan to teach it again during Spring 2012.   I am adding Business Writing to my list of courses taught this fall.  Please see the Instruction page for more details about my teaching.

In addition to my time in the classroom, I serve the college as the Program Head for English Adjuncts.  In this position, I facilitate the hiring, mentoring and evaluation of the large adjunct population on our campus.  For more on this position--and details about how to apply to become an English adjunct on our campus--see the Service page of this site.

My research interests focus on multimodal composition, visual rhetoric, universal design and usability.  I am interested in examining questions about how “texts” (broadly defined) can be designed or redesigned to effectively engage audience members, particularly student audiences with dominant learning style preferences or special needs.  In addition to exploring issues of design, I am also interested in examining the rhetorical exigencies motivating the creation of street art.  Most recently, I’ve been studying the street artist Banksy.  I’m examining the means in which his design practices adhere design recommendations in the professional writing world as well as the means in which his identity is constructed in social media settings. 


As a PhD student in Old Dominion University’s English Department, I’ve found a warm and challenging environment to expand upon these interests and grow further as a scholar.  For more information on the my current research projects and research background, visit the Research page of this site.

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Last updated on March 31, 2011.  © Cheri Lemieux Spiegel.