Dr. Howard Tinberg

 Some information about me

I was born in Portland, Oregon and was raised in Los Angeles, Ca, where I went to the public schools and attended UCLA as an undergraduate and, briefly, as a graduate student. I continued my graduate education at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA.

I've taught at Bristol Community College for over 30 years, where I've taught mostly writing and surveys of British literature. I've also taught honors courses at the college: Holocaust literature and tutoring in a writing center. 

Scholarly interests and publications

Over the years, I've published a lot of essays for teachers encouraging them to use what happens in their classrooms as material for research. I believe deeply in what is called the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, a movement that tries to promote really thoughtful approaches to classroom instruction. 

 In the last few years, I've become interested in teaching the literature of the Holocaust, writing transfer, and teaching reading at the college-level. Here is a sampling of my published work:

Books: 

Deep Reading, Deep Learning: Deep Reading, Vol. 2. Ed. with Patrick Sullivan and Sheridan Blau. New York: Peter Lang. Forthcoming 

Teaching Writing through the Immigrant Story. Ed. with Heather Ostman and Danizete Martinez. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2021 Deep Reading: Teaching Reading in the Writing Classroom. 

Ed. with Patrick Sullivan and Sheridan Blau. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2017. Teaching, Learning, and the Holocaust: An Integrative Approach. With Ron Weisberger. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2014. 

What is “College-Level” Writing? Vol. II. Ed. with Patrick Sullivan and Sheridan Blau. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2010. 

The Community College Writer: Exceeding Expectations. With J.P. Nadeau. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2010 What is “College-Level” Writing? Ed. with Patrick Sullivan Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2006 

Writing with Consequence: What Writing Does in the Disciplines. New York: Pearson: 2003 Border Talk: Writing and Knowing in the Two-Year College. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1997. 

Selected Articles/Chapters/Reviews: 

“Fashioning a Teaching Life: Literacy Narrative as Creative Nonfiction.” Writing on the Edge. 30.2 (Spring 2020): 61-67. 

“A Path to Citizenship: An Interview.” In 16 Teachers Teachng: Two-Year College Perspectives. Ed. Patrick Sullivan. Utah State UP. 2020. 

“Teaching for Transfer: A Passport for Writing in New Contexts. Peer Review 19.1 (2017). Web. 1 Aug. 2017. 

“When Writers Encounter Reading in a Community College First-Year Composition Course.” In Deep Reading: Teaching Reading in the Writing Classroom. Ed. with Patrick Sullivan and Sheridan Blau. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2017. 244-264. 

“Reconsidering Transfer Knowledge at the Community College: Challenges and Opportunities.” Teaching English in the Two-Year College (Sept. 2015): 7-31. 

“The Loss of the Public.” College Composition and Communication. 66.2 (Dec. 2014): 327-351. 

 Awards and honors

In 2004, I was named US Community College Professor of the Year by Carnegie/CASE, groups associated with teacher training and recogntion.

In 2005, I was selected as a Carnegie Scholar. The award allowed me to research a subject of concern for me: how students read the literature of the Holocaust. 

In 2006, I received the Nell Ann Picket  Award, representing national recognition for service to the two-year college profession.

In 2011, I was elected Assistant Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, the premier national organization of college faculty who teach writing.  I served as Chair, from 2014-2015.

In 2015, I was selected to be a Teaching Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.

In 2016, I received the Mark R. Reynolds  Best Article of the Year Award inTeaching English in the Two-Year College, a journal published by the National Council of Teachers of English.

In 2018, I was chosen to receive the The John & Suanne Roueche Excellence Award, created by the League for Innovation in the Community College and given to faculty and staff of key distinction, showing leadership and/or innovation, above and beyond their regular job duties.

In 2019, Deep Reading:  Teaching Reading in the Writing Classroom, a book that I co-edited (with Patrick Sullivan and Sheridan Blau), was awarded the 2019 Outstanding Book Award in the Edited Collection category by the Conference on College Composition and Communication

In 2022, I received the title of Faculty Emeritus upon my retirement.