EIU Department of English

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Dr. Donna J Binns, Professor of English

Office: 3851 - Coleman Hall
Email: djbinns@eiu.edu

Fall 2021 office hours (all virtual): Mondays 5-7 p.m.; Wednesdays and Thursdays 5-6 p.m.

Donna Binns teaches courses in English Language Arts education, professional writing, accessibility, and composition and rhetoric. She has published articles in Indiana English, Kansas English, The Dangling Modifier, Illinois English Bulletin and Disability in Science Fiction: Representations of Technology as Cure. Her research interests include the transition from high school to college writing, accessibility, media studies, disability studies, and composition pedagogy. She has served as a member of the Film Studies Minor Committee and the Women's Studies Program Committee at EIU and as Co-Director of the Eastern region for the Illinois Association of Teachers of English. She also sponsors EIU's Tennis and Badminton Clubs.

 

 

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PhD University of Kansas
MA University of Kansas
BA College of William & Mary

 

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English education, technical communication, composition and rhetoric, disability studies, and media studies.

 

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