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About Doug Brent
dabrent@ucalgary.ca

Professional information:

I am a professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary.  My teaching and research centre on rhetoric and writing studies with a particular interest in pedagogy. 

I am vice president of the Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing. In past lives, I have been director of the University of Calgary's Writing Program and the Undergraduate Program in Communications Studies, and until recently the Associate Dean (Academic) of the Faculty of Communication and Culture (now amalgamated into the Faculty of Arts).

I am currently on research leave (until June 30, 2011), writing articles on learning transfer from the university to the workplace, teaching the research paper, and the genre of the Co-op Work Term Report. You can read some of my published work by following the Doug Brent’s Articles link.

Personal information:

I live in Calgary, Alberta, Canada with my wife, Diana Brent.  Diana (dlbrent@telus.net) teaches adaptive technology for visually impaired students for the Calgary School Board, and also works as a contract trainer for adaptive technology. We have two children and one grandchild.