DOBRIN, Sidney I. 1967-

PERSONAL:

Born February 28, 1967, in Bowling Green, KY; son of Leonard (a professor of criminology) and Dora (a professor of human services; maiden name, Harbin) Dobrin. Education: Virginia Wesleyan College, B.A. (English), 1989; Old Dominion University, M.A. (English), 1991; University of South Florida, Ph.D. (composition and rhetoric), 1995. Religion: Jewish. Hobbies and other interests: Fishing, diving, spearfishing, hunting, drinking.

ADDRESSES:

Office—University of Florida, Box 117310, Gainesville, FL 32611-7310. E-mail—sdobrin@English.ufl.edu.

CAREER:

Willoughby Bay Marina, Norfolk, VA, dock master, 1984-89. University of Kansas, Lawrence, assistant professor, 1995-97; University of Florida, Gainesville, associate professor and director of writing programs, 1997—. Dive instructor at aquatic center, Gainesville, FL.

MEMBER:

Conference on College Composition and Communication, Association for Study of Literature and Environment, Writing Program Administrators.

WRITINGS:

(Coeditor, with Gary A. Olson) Composition Theory for the Postmodern Classroom, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY), 1994.

Constructing Knowledges: The Politics of Theory-building and Pedagogy in Composition, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY), 1997.

(Coeditor, with Gary A. Olson and Lynn Worsham) The Kinneavy Papers: Theory and the Study of Discourse, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY), 2000.

Distance Casting: Words and Ways of the Saltwater Fishing Life, Sycamore Island Books (Boulder, CO), 2000.

(Coeditor, with Christian Weisser) Ecocomposition: Theoretical and Pedagogical Approaches, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY), 2001.

(With Christian Weisser) Natural Discourse: Toward Ecocomposition, State University of New York Press (Albany, NY), 2002.

Also former field editor and columnist for Fisherman magazine. Articles published in Sportfishing Report, Yale Angler's Journal, JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory, College English, Composition Forum, and Dialogue: A Journal for Writing Specialists. Former editor, JAC.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Writing Environments: Rhetoric, Texts, and The Construction of Nature, with Christopher J. Keller, for State University of New York Press; Wild Things: Children's Literature, Ecocriticism, and Ecological Literacy, with Kenneth Kidd, for Wayne State University Press; A Closer Look: Twenty-one Essayists for the College Writer, with Anis S. Bawarshi, for Mayfield Publishing Company; Saving Place: An Ecoreader, for Mayfield Publishing Company; editing Protean Ground: Critical Ethnography in Composition Studies with Stephen G. Brown for State University of New York Press.