Alyssa J. O'Brien, Ph.D.
Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Stanford University
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Alyssa J. O'Brien, Ph.D.
is a writer and lecturer at Stanford University, where she teaches writing, public
speaking, and cross-cultural communication in the Program in Writing and
Rhetoric and as a regular instructor in Stanford’s Continuing Studies
Program. Since arriving at Stanford
in 2001, Alyssa has co-authored seven textbooks as well as many articles and
conference papers. She’s been an
invited speaker in Asia and Europe on subjects such as global learning,
communication for leadership, visual rhetoric, and “mapping a change in
writing.” Over the past three years,
she’s directed the Cross-Cultural Rhetoric project (or CCR), a research and teaching endeavor
originally funded by the Wallenberg Global Learning Network. CCR now connects students across five
continents and involves universities from ten countries through
video-conference technology and blogs. When she’s not working
with students at Stanford University, Alyssa makes time to participate in two
Bay Area creative writing groups, and she's working on a creative nonfiction
collection. She has taught creative writing at Stanford's Fallen Leaf
Lake, in the Stanford Continuing Studies Program, at the University of
Rochester, the Eastman School of Music, and Cornell University. She
also writes for her community paper, Coastviews
Magazines, and selections from her writing will soon be available here. Alyssa won the Phi Beta
Kappa Outstanding Teaching Award in 2006, and what she enjoys most is helping
people discover their voices in writing of all kinds. |