Jonathan Bush

    Associate Professor
    Ph.D., Purdue University
    English Education, Rhetoric and Writing Studies


    Office: 911 Sprau
    E-mail: jbush@wmich.edu
    Phone: 269 387-2607
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Jonathan Bush is an associate professor of English, specializing in English Education and rhetoric and writing studies. He holds a PhD in Rhetoric and Composition from Purdue University. In addition to teaching pedagogy and theory courses in English education, he also coordinates English 1000: The Writing Process, WMU's developmental writing course and is a co-director in the Third Coast Writing Project.

He is the former editor of the Language Arts Journal of Michigan and has published widely in professional journals, including English Education, Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), English Leadership Quarterly, English Journal, Pedagogy, and others. He is also co-author of But Will it Work with Real Students: Scenarios for Teaching Secondary English Language Arts (NCTE, 2003) and collaborating author of Grammar to Enrich and Enhance Student Writing (Heinemann, 2008). Jonathan is the co-chair of the Conference on English Education Commission on Writing Teacher Education and the co founder and former chair of the Conference on College Composition's Special Interest Group: English Education/Composition Connections.

He lives in Plainwell. MI with his wife, Erin, and four children: Delaney, Avery, Owen, and Eleanor. He is also a public affairs officer in the US Navy Reserve.

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Department of English
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5331 USA
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