Peter Khost

Job Title: Full-time lecturer

Phone: (631) 632-4249

E-mail: pkhost@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

Office Location: H-2106

Office Hours

Education: Ph.D. CUNY Graduate Center (forthcoming); MA Rutgers University; BA Fordham University.

Courses Taught: WRT 101--Introductory Writing Workshop, WRT 102--Intermediate Writing Workshop, HON 201-- Western Utopian Literature (Honors College), EGL 592--Problems in the Teaching of Writing

Professional Interests: Composition studies, utopian literature, reader-response theory, medieval mysticism.

Presentations:

• MLA 2008.  “O Pioneers? What 66% of Us Need to Know about Publish or Perish”
  
  
• NCTE 2007.  “Professional Literacy and the Next Generation Compositionist: The Case for a Utopian Framework”
  
  
• SAMLA 2006.  “Orpheus and the Allegory of the Save: On Communicative Proximity”
  
  
• MLA 2005.  “Reading, Writing, and Representing: Long Divisions in Literature and Composition”

• CCCC 2004. “E-Flirts;-) The Rhetoric of Courtly ‘Self’ Presentation”
  
  
• CCCC 2003.  “Knowing What We Feel, Feeling What We Know: Accessing ‘Felt Sense’ in Our Writing, Our Teaching, and Our Thinking”
  
  
• SAMLA 2003.  “Having Trouble Writing, Troubling Writing, Getting into Trouble Writing, or How Gertrude Stein Complicated our Relationship with Rubrics and Academic Writing”
  
  
• CCCC 2002.  “The Anxiety of Online Discussion Board Composition”
  
  
• SAMLA 2002.  “The Dynamic of Identity Themes in English Composition”
  
  
• CCCC 1999.  “Electronic Rhetoric: Computers in the Writing Class”

Publications:

• Gaughan, Frank, and Peter H. Khost, eds. Collaborating(,) Literature(,) and Composition: Essays for Teachers and Writers of English. Cresskill: Hampton Press, 2007. <http://www.hamptonpress.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=1-57273-710-7&Category_Code=Q107>
  
  
• “On Collaborating Without Ceasing.” Introduction. Collaborating(,) Literature(,) and Composition: Essays for Teachers and Writers of English. Eds. Frank Gaughan and Peter H. Khost. Cresskill: Hampton Press, 2007. 1-18. (Co-authored with Gaughan.)
  
  
• “Nothing Matters.  Now What?  Skywriting in the Contact Zone.” Collaborating(,) Literature(,) and Composition: Essays for Teachers and Writers of English. Eds. Frank Gaughan and Peter H. Khost. Cresskill: Hampton Press, 2007. 73-90. (Co-authored with Gaughan.)
  
  
• “Reading, Writing, and Representing.” Inside Higher Ed 6 Feb. 2006 <http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2006/02/06/gaughan>. (Co-authored with Gaughan.)
  
  
• “Teaching Musical Text Analysis and Evaluation.” Don’t Panic!: The Instructor’s Guide to Assignments and Activities for First Year Composition. Ed. Vicki Willis. (Under review.)
  
  
• “Survival Kit: An Inductive Approach to Cultural and Textual Analysis.” Assignment Sourcebook for Writing Teachers. Ed. Cynthia Davidson. 2005. Stony Brook University. <http://stonybrook.edu/writrhet/khost2.shtml>.
  
  
• “Proving the Impossible: An Exercise in Early Research Paper Writing.” Assignment Sourcebook for Writing Teachers. Ed. Cynthia Davidson. 2001. Stony Brook University. <http://www.stonybrook.edu/writrhet/khost1pt1.shtml>.

Additional Achievements or Comments:         

• Interim Associate Director, Stony Brook University Program in Writing and Rhetoric, 2008-2009
  
  
• Interim Writing Center Director, Stony Brook University Program in Writing and Rhetoric,  2001-2002
  
  
• Chair, Program in Writing and Rhetoric Faculty Advisory Committee, Stony Brook University, 2006-present
  
  
• Campus representative of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, Stony Brook University, 2007-present
  
  
• Founding Board Member: Teddy McArdle Free School, 2006-present http://www.tmcafs.org/
  
  
• Member: National Council of Teachers of English, Modern Language Association, Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition, Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, The Society for Utopian Studies