Faculty

Biography

Adam Stauffer is an assistant professor in the Writing, Speaking, & 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 on themes including U.S. politics, digital culture, human nature and behavior, and existential philosophy. His interest in writing and communication traces back to his training in cultural and intellectual history and, later, his dissertation which examined the intersections between literature, print culture, and regional identity in nineteenth-century California. His current interests center on the craft of fiction, the interplay between fiction and nonfiction, and what imaginative writing can reveal about human communication. More broadly, he remains engaged with questions of how ideas are produced, circulated, and received within both historical and contemporary contexts.