Biography
Adam Q. Stauffer is an assistant professor in the Writing, Speaking, and Argument Program at the University of Rochester. He earned his BA in History at Elizabethtown College and his PhD in History at the University of Rochester. He teaches a range of first-year writing courses covering a variety of themes, including U.S. politics, digital culture, human nature and behavior, and existential philosophy. His interest in writing and communication trace back to his undergraduate and graduate training in cultural and intellectual history and, later, his dissertation, which examines the intersections between literature, print culture, and regional identity in nineteenth-century America. He is currently working on a study of the influential American educator James Morgan Hart and a broader study focusing on the history of the first-year composition classroom in U.S. higher education.
