OLSON, Gary A.

OLSON, Gary A. American, b. 1954. Genres: Education, Writing/ Journalism. Career: Indiana University of Pennsylvania, IN, Writing Center, director, 1978-80; Shelton State Community College, Tuscaloosa, AL, adjunct instructor, 1980; University of Alabama, University, instructor in English and director of Writing Center, 1980-82; University of North Carolina at Wilmington, assistant professor of English, 1982-85, director of developmental writing, 1982-83, director of Center for Writing, 1982-84; University of South Florida, Tampa, assistant professor, 1985-87, associate professor, 1987-92, professor of rhetoric and composition, 1992-, associate of Institute for Interpretive Human Studies, 1991-. St. Thomas University, Miami, FL, coordinator of Writing across the Curriculum, 1988. Publications: (with R. Ray and J. DeGeorge) Style and Readability in Technical Writing, 1983; (with Ray and DeGeorge) Style and Readability in Business Writing, 1984;Justifying Belief: Stanley Fish and the Work of Rhetoric, 2002. EDITOR: Writing Centers, 1984; (with R. Ray and J. DeGeorge) The Process Reader, 1985; (with E. Metzger and E. Ashton-Jones) Advanced Placement English, 1989; (with E. Ashton-Jones) The Gender Reader, 1990, 2nd ed., 2000; (with I. Gale) (Inter)Views: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Rhetoric and Literacy, 1991; Philosophy, Rhetoric, Literary Criticism, 1994; (with S.I. Dobrin) Composition Theory for the Postmodern Classroom, 1994; (with E. Hirsh) Women Writing Culture, 1995; (with T.W. Taylor) Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition, 1997; (with L. Worsham) Race, Rhetoric, and the Postcolonial, 1999; (with L. Worsham and S.I. Dobrin) The Kinneavy Papers, 2000; Rhetoric and Composition as Intellectual Work, 2002; (with L. Worsham) Critical Intellectuals on Writing, 2003. Contributor to books and academic journals. Address: Dept of English, CPR 107, University of South Florida, 4202 E Fowler Ave, Tampa, FL 33620, U.S.A.